The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-08-17

heard of where any quarrel result
ed from It. One negro was knock
ed down on the streets for jostling
rudely against q white woman,
and positively only one such
instance has occurred. THE HER
AID in justice to the soldiers them
selves may say that this IS the only
instance it knows of where any of
them offered any insolence to
ladies on the street.
As yet, the Gazette report
reads. the negroes have made no
attempt to openly modest white
women.
This despite the fact of the at
tempted outrage by one of the SOL
diers on Sunday night upon a
white lady of high standing and
good repute. who swears that her
assailant was a negro soldier.
The inaccuracy of the Gazette's
report is apparent in its statement
that it was just after midnight
when a score or more of drunken
negroes ran up the main street of
the city, whooping and yelling, "
and the further statement that the
riot lasted for upwards of an
hour"
The fact is, the marauders were
remarkably quiet while doing their
devilish work. Not single whoop
or yell was uttered by them. This
the writer can vouch for, having
been within a very short distance
of them the whole time. Moreover,
the raiders did not get over three
blocks from the post at any time,
and the whole thing was over i'll
less than fifteen minutes, when the
bugles sounded the alarm in the
post. That the perpetrators of
this foul deed were not drunk, but
duly sober and carrying out a
deeply laid plot is evidenced by |
these facts. They even spoke to
each other in suppressed tones
throughout, and the very moment
they heard the alarm in the post,
they ceased firing and made their
way quietly and secretly back to
the post, all being safely in their
quarters long before the patrol
sent out to search the town return
ed to report that they had not
found an armed soldier in the
town. These facts are vouched
for by the most conservative citi-
zens of Brownsville.
1t may be stated without fear of
contradiction by any reputable
person that this outrage was al
most entirely unprovoked and the
few slight difficulties between the
citizens and the soldiers so trivial
as the make it wholly unwarrant-
able. Moreover the calm self
control of the people of Browns
vile since its occurrence, the
entire absence of any disorderliness
whatever on the part of Our citi-
zens under this terrible strain,
proves them to be both reasonable
and law-abidiug With hundreds
of armed men in our midst ready
to defend the town, and all filled
with a grim determination to de-
mand justice, yet not one has given
public expression to any sentiments
that may be considered of a
violent or incendiary nature. THE
HERALD makes the above cor
rections and statements because it
feels that any who would deal in
misrepresentation in reporting this
event which has shaken our peo-
pie so deeply are guilty of injus-
tice. Misrepresentation or ex-
now is not to be
tolerated. Any who imRute
wrong sentiments or actions to the
people of Brownsville at this
critical moment should be ashamed.
Our injury has been great enough,
without the addition of insult.
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