The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-04

after ten, fifteen or twenty years and
breaking up his family and carrying hlm
back q thousand miles and locking him
ND in iaiI But it is done continually by
these detectives and reward hunters just
for the reward that was once offered ana
never recalled. We read every little
while of the arrest Of some man VINO ran
away and changed his name long years
ago. and behaved himself and married
good woman and was raising up rcspec-
table children when suddenly Il detective
found him and seized him and rudely tore
him from those who loved him ana earned
him away to Il distant state to prison.
1t is all wrong and does no good. lie had
carried the burden of his crime like a
nightmare for years and years. lie had
suffered enough.
Thinking about Texas reminds me OF
what Henry Grady said TO me some years
ago when l told him l was going there.
Are you not afraid?' said he. "Afraid-
of What?' | asked. "Why Of robbers
train robbcrS-those fellows that hold up
a train and go through it and put the lnuz-
Zlc of Il deriingcr at every mans head
and keep it there until he diSgorges.
would like to see that done. l would give
$50 to be on u train when it was held up.
II | was travelling out there and knew
what train they would stop, | would take
it just to see the fun. The idea Of two
men attacking the engineer and fireman
ami conductor and baggage men and eX-
press men and brakesmen and pOrters
and messengers and subduing them all
and paralyzing a hundred passengers and
taking all their money is to me one Of
the grandest and most extraordinary per-
f0rmanceS i'll the world and I want to
see just how it is done and feel how q
man feels while it is going on--don't YOU"
Not much--nO | don't" said I. Il don't
see any fun in il, nor grandeur; but it is
certainly very extraordinary. There is
not Il car full of passengers on any ives
tern train that has not got half n dozen
loaded pistols in it-pcrhaps Il dozen either
in hip pockets or grips and why some fell
low don't squat behind his seat and shoot
the robber before he gets to him, / don't
understand" "Paraly2cd." said Grady,
''the very audacity of the thing paralyzes
them and | want to realize it. | want to
try some audacity myself | would look
the fellow right in the eye and smile and
say My friend, let's compromise this bus
incss-let's dividc-you take half and III
take half and I'd look so smiling and I'M
terrified that he would pass on Don't you
know that when three of the commune
went INFO Rothchild's bank III Paris. dur
ing the revolution, and demanded his
money under the cry Of liberty, equality
and fraternity the old jew never Quailed
nor trembled but said, how
much money have 1 got? And
they said. Forty millions of
francs That is right said he, and
there are 100000 people in France.
Then he threw three francs on the coun-
ter and said here are yours-tell the rest
to come on and get theirs They took
them sheepishly and went out. Now no
body ever stops to talk to these robbers
or to reason with them but they become
paralyzed and surrender. | would like
to meet them and try few broken re-
marks upon them: They are desperate
fellows, no doubt, but they are men like
we are and have their good points. Jesse
James was 10 brute; he had some chiy-
airy about him and if he had had q fair
chance would have made a splendid citi-
zen. ] would like to command q regi-
ment Of such men III q War-WOuldnt
they whip IN anny?' No" said I, they
wouldn't make good soldiers The best
soldiers we had We're men who would not
rob anybody, nor impose on anybOdy-nOr
be looking out for an insult. They We're
men VINO We're more peaceable than quar-
rciSOme. The fellows who went about
with pistols i'll their pockets before the
war di(lcnt make good soldiers and they
lodged every battle on some preteXt."
Henry pondcrcd awhile and said: Maybe
you are right, but | would like to be on
train when it was held up"
Grady had great admiration for heroism
of any kind whether it was in William Tell
Or Il Observation-Disclosures in a general or Il
puglist, or an outlaw. How eagerly he
used to listen to the story Of Forrest with