The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-03
Tne AboIitionist Horror. In Texas.

The AboIftionfst Horrors In Texas
Our SAN ANTONIO CORRESPONDENCE.
sAs ANTONIO, Iexs, August 20, 1850
The Esel,eme.. on az Increase IN EasSrn am No ~s"
ILxas- plllcnous Ada Of 4oD.'f'o"is's-Oss"ulHos Z"
-, nx,,,, ~ Hera,r.on and Dallas BY Iac~ndares FOO
ofD< rnoerdiaries Caush. and q ncAed-Larpe Qacnt.
ti,s az xhu,ns Gipea TIE Negroes by me Abolpiaius
10 poison ~ P.l.ic wsls-Tcen.y Cuipris Treated 70
ne Racer-rrx Kiaio~ Dollars Worth u P:oprty o.
..Toves by Ars-Po,iticdl Predictions, 60
promised you in my last hat IL anything further
should at the seat Of war; n Texas, would i'm
meos,ey communicate the same 70 you Since TIA, let
written the excitement mentioned therein as
istng in Eastern and Northern Texas has gone 10
cressing and spread itself all the state Almost
every day act Of vlany the part
OF the abotonsts while the has been wrought
up to fever heat II has jus. reached It's ep point
cannot easily see how Il grow any CHER, day
ago reached city that the beautiful and
wealthy little Of Henderson, in Rusx cora ,, hsd
burned 70 the ground IN spite 81 the burrag down
OF Dallas and several other places time ago, nobody
nfuced 70 believe the rumor, for Henderson had
been bothered by gool!ticnis,s None lad ever
been driven out Of the place. and 70 believed that nobody
in the world had any malice sgeinrt Us citizens We
could ha that there existed Williams OF 30 deep dye
as without proyo,atiop - Apply torch ofthe nccadl
las proved that vlsny Of Northern atctonsls has
10 bourds We received this morning malls direct from
be doomed place and the news 10 10 the effect that IN
MS little OF about 800 people, only three business
boGses have been saved from the oevourins e.smeat
Pretty nearly the whole town has been destroy 3D. and
hat but a few dayt sso % the moet doursting
IL crxas is crrmh.ed run, smoking rom tre
ground The toan ret IRE r. several places all 1t
once, and dark, while the pc ,pe
quietly enjoying heir evening meal There was a sin
breeze on II the timeavery thug vas parched BIZ the
lufa prlIF
era sled On beyond the power OF man u Arrest
them Scarcely anything was saved Families tAai
but moments before 10 nilrent circrn1stsr.
rendered penbiess and miserable Two OF the
white abolition scpundrels who aced the negroor 10
assste1 hc in this horrible wors, fort iEatey
caught aud immediately strung between heaven aud
earth. The scocndrels deserved their fate Iis PITY
those the North who MAKING oos cut or these
miserable devils could not meet with the Fate Ssv
ers negroes taken ~, and examination largo,
quantities Of srycnniue were found 10 tnei sess N,
which they SAID had been given 10 them by white %
poison the public wells ard the morning Of certain
cay charge heavily with the breakfast Of the people
The negroes wre then 70 isl upon the whtss with sni
pistol an BE- assisted In the work by abotons,s
This is the tale they tell !. seems hard to believe
that there such tepos in the world, but /
assure ou that they are numerous ia Texa. Just now
haze occasionally met them myself while travelling
through the State and have heard them discourse ,ne
We resolved intelligence also this morning Of the burn
rg OF two other small towns IN Eastern rexas-8sevus
nni Dsnserfed We have as yet rece we'd particulars
u The burning Henderson Is situated In the heart Of
very rich cotton producing country where negroes are
Aboitonsts are being hung all over the state, sup
pose during the last thirty days not less than tweay
haze been rns up and evsry mai orp Us S
yond al bounds, and ! fear innocent persons
or should b. The case lei the blame n. on tbs shoulders
Of the sboonsts Of the North. who producing this
work Il is not to be expected that people In the midst
Of servle psurrecton, with their property burning
down Their heads, and their wells being Ged with
poison, should always act with judgment. They have
got provocaop enough make them little cfazily
AZ least % QUO coo OF their property have already been
destroyed by these douby internal abolition tends,
and .iil the work Is going Such state Of things
one sec'ion carrying on war, and war in It's
mos, internal aspect, saan:. the people Of s2o.he,
especially Tor inersut peders and 50 forth Such class
danger breaking II character OF peders or
preachers that these sbolitonists have mostly
tiops night, and tell the negroes about "frecdom'
and tie great army Of abolitioniss who ready to
Thsse cTeatnrc, on The syre nsn,.,ors scrc ,sev ss
com speak word 10 the whites, readily believe any
thing that white man may tel them. Without being
tvn would enter their heads They perfectly
ssn,snsd and happy but, as told You ss,.r. white
iaiions-bclieye anything they choose TO tell them
The excitement growing out II these has killed
all conservative feeling In TEXAS You may now note
down every frxan as tfunionisl they do not care
What You oil DO the North We believe that this s,c
Of things will continue long as the linton lasts there
The grea, majority o. do care how coon the
crisis We believe u is bound 10 come and II had
well do any othcr time We do not the
toss Of copper whom you elect President you elect
Douglas or Breckenridge or Bell, this hollow talon III
continue few years longer and N you elect that
rabc oh rail splitting sboiionist Aoc Lincoln you only
hasten. by few years. the event which is bound 70
,ransprc. Therefore lei every Northern Do As no
chooses II he j. black republican, and 81 the
time IN favor OF tho Union, let him yote
TAnccn. for dhunicn Is bcund ~ upon dis
isnt day and there use Of prcongng the miscrubc
affair. History docs not furnish ample Of country
containing two bitterly hostile sections which long
NAMED n TAU q'ao.