Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-09-27


laJonai, and We ifusi rat ra nI4 uas f1t.
and his myrnidohs layo ll.n driven hsadlms
across the Missouri river Isso " freedom.
slrisksrs who af5 sl hlis. .... nti h pflTls.
Sims Of courage anl devotion Go tloir cause do
not ssoia 10 relish tho sm.Il of hostile gunp1w
der They can't stand tho clear crack Of tho
Southern rifles, Tho lat,lcs that hay0 been
fought clearly demonstrate the great superiority
Of tho - Border RuiLans " over tho {" Freedom.
shrlekers," N point Of courage, Before the
stern array OF Southern ,hi,alry, maTshall,d in
defence of the dearest and most lnalenahlc rights,
the fanatics quail In fear IL Is not the cutins
harangues of Beechor, or the traitOvous diatribes
Of Greeley, tia. ring In their ears but the shrill
blast Of ,a southern buglo, Inviting thein to the
fight. Though they may be driven back, thou
sands of Others will swarm forth from the North
orn live Ia Jake their place, As long as Gcrrct
Smiths money holds out, hrelings can ho bought
In the market to 20 to Kanzas as butchers, As
long as Horace Gro,ley's lash is pliad there will
he found trembling nigsor-worshipPers to sneak
into Kansas for the purpose OF assassinating some
monstrous slave driver and thereby do God scr,
vice. 1t is q desperate game that the meters
and ysttcrs up of this horrible civil war in Kan
PAS are playing, 1t is their only trump for the
Presidency, They will not give it up until after
the election in November. \ dead or wounded
abolitioris, is worth just now in tic political
market, North, moro than all the impassioncl 81
o0ucnco of the Buringamcs or Wilson's SUM
ncr's bruised head has healed up, und more mar
tyIs TO the cause are in rcqusition. Black Re-
puhlicansm would fall down and worship Il
bloody shirt or shot Jacket from kan2as, us do
youtly as the lsraelitcs worshippcd the golden
calf.
The civil war has only commenced in Kan2as,
Unless the Federal authorities, aided by the ar
my, should succeed in restoring order and quiet,
which we greatly doubt, the adjoining and con-
tiguous states, North and South, will become
participants in the struggle, and finally the
whole of the Northern DO marshailed in hostile
array against the Southern States. 1t behooycs
the friends Of southern rights to he prepared fer
airy emergency. Above all it bchoovcs thom MS
Il matter Of naked Justice, to send men, money
and arms, nor, without moments delay to the
relief of bleeding Knnaas We are glad to OBJ
serve some scintlaticns OF fire cmcnating from
the Southern heart on this question We have
remained we'll wishing but inactive spectators of
| The struggle, IN which our brothcren and friends
have been butclerel by the score too long. The
great battle of southern rights is now being
fought on the plains Of Kanzas. In such con-
test let ct Texas be unrepresented
II Ono Of the most important measures passed
during the latc session Of the legislature, wac
the repeal of the Pacific Railroad rose rvation,
and authorizing its location sale and settlement,
This act provides that all persons who are now
settled as pre-cmptors within that reserve shall
pay to the State fifty cents per for his or her
claim, not to exceed 100 acres, which they arc to
have surveyed by the District surveyor. and the
field notes returned to the General Land Office by
the lst day of January. 1858; that any person
,, holding % genuine certificate, bounty land war
rant, or other headlight land certificate or rail
road certificate, SHALL after the LIST day of March
1857, have the right to locate the same within
the reserve; and it authorizes the commissioner
of the General Land Office, from and after the LIST
day of July, 1857, at the request Of any person,
to issue land scrip at fifty cents per acre, to be
paid in gold and silver before the delivery of the
crip,which scrip may be located by the party to
whom it is issued upon any vacant land within
thn 81 fnro 1o,,1r tod tn
afford relief to the pre-cmptionists who had set
tied on the reserve. by securing their homes to
them at a moderate price, we hailed it's passage
with pleasure. lfMeir homes had been put down
to % cents per acre, the bill would have been
that much more acceptable to us These settlers
have undergone many hardships and privations
in settling tho frontier between the Trinity and
l'razos, and certainly had strong claims on the
liherallty of the Legislature, We presume, how
ever, they will not grumblc at the price fixed
but will gladly submit to it. What we object to
most seriously in the act is that no discrmna-
ton was made between the settler who resides on
the land, who has acted as the pioneer Of civil
zatlon, and the capitalist who wishes to blu 9 land
dispose of her lands to the sturdy pioneer, whose
labor and enterprise are rendering the public do
main valuable, at less than les value but she
should at least have eyrcted from the capitalist
who buys it altogethei o.lspeculation, something
like its approximate ealue This act gives it tc
him at the same rate that the toiling prc-emptor
who is struggling for subsistence on the remote
frontier, exposing his family to every hardship
danger and privation incident to q border life, il
comrellpd to pay.
a great deal of misrepresentation was practis
ed ON the Legislature in the passage of this bill
it was asserted by members who resided in the re
serve that the vacant lands in its limits were no
worth % cents per acre. In u debate in tht
I Senate, ON the 18th of august, Senator Palmer