Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-06-02
WEATHERFoRD, Texas,
Anril 10. 1900.

llNNc pNIuatu u low otlttD Nopl'n VI
your weekly paper, and am much
pleased TO see that one, at least, oI
our editors has the fortitudoto TO come
out boldly defending the right and
denouncing the wrong, in tho face
of the blatant, unprinciplod donna
gogues with which our State is in
! tested. They have pulled the "wool
over tho eyes of our people and mis-
led thom, simply because they have
bullied over all their opponents, and
thus kept them from exposing their
reasonable plots and untonablopo-
sitions. The people in the main are
right, and, now, that the duplicity
of their leaders is being exposed,
will heartily despise them for the
deception they have used. The del
cgates to the Convention from this
District are both Confederates.-
Bradshaw was one of the firc-eating
members of the Convention that
passed the ordinance sof secession.
The other, Ball, is n citizen Of this
place. has returned, and states that
the Radical party has nominated
EX- Governor Pease as candidate
for Governor at the coming election,
that the Loyal League is an institu-
ton for carrying out the ends ofthat
party, works on the pride of the poo-
pie by saying that that party is in
favor of negro equality in every
sense of the term, says that !Ihrock-
morton, the candidate Of tho Con
servative and whilom secession par
ties will undoubtedly be elected, that
Pease will get only the vote of,the
Loyal League, &C., &c. In this way
he ventilates before crowds compos-
ed Of ox-members of vigilance COM
mittees, for which this portion of
the State has been notorious,
In case the election holds, | think
the condition of the Union men, in
this part of the State especially, it
being so remote from any military
command, will be little better than
it was during the war; even under
the Provisional Government. 1t is
with difficulty that men who have
been uncompromising Union men
live here. They are openly insult
ed by bands of rebel desperadoes,
instruments Of the party. About
two weeks since, gang of these vii
lains went into the adjoining county
Of Jack, (llnown throughout the
North west as the free State Of Jack.
1t has been cmphatically loyal
county all through the WARP and
killed one of the most loyal citizens
of that county, simply because he
had a short time before, claimed pay
for horse that one Of their number
had taken up and disposed of while
he was an exile in the North. While
/ am writing, two of this party are
riding through the streets OF this
place, firing their pistols, inquiring
and searching for Union men. A
brief notice of this state Of affairs
in the columns of your paper, might
possibly do some good, by letting
the friends of these villains know
that their acts are becoming public,
and would be highly gratifying to
the loyal men Of this county. M.
WAXAHAcHIE, TEXAS,
May 18th 1856.
To the editor of The Dallas Herald: ::
SIR-I see o correspondence to
Flakes Bulletin from Weatherford
over the signature of"M." that seems
to impugn my motives in the Con-
vcntion, because, he says, 7 "was
conc of the fire eating members Of
"the Convention that passed the
" ordinance of secession" IfMr. M.
can impugn the motives Of all who
differed with him upon the right OF
secession at the commencement of
the war, then a majority of the citi-
zens are subject to condemnation ;
might not the majority with as
much propriety, condemn the mi
nority? Is it not fact, that men
sometimes honestly differ in their
opinions?
The Convention allowed the ne
gro to acquire and transmit proper
ty, and to testify in all cases whore
his race was interested or party
to the suit. We did not think it a
right of the negroes to testify be-
tween two white men in suit that
did not concern the negro. We did
| not count the negro in the appor-
tionment for representation. Fo1
one l was unwilling for those Sec
tions Of the country where negroes
arc in such abundance to count them
in the apportionment for represen.
tation against the white people !
represented; or in other words | wa:
unwilling to recognize the negro as
the equal of the white race any
where. 1t is true, there are excep
tions to all rules, and Mr.. N. and hi:
KIND may constitute the exception
The Convention thought that in
asmuch as the school fund was raised
by white men for white children
that it was a vested right in th'
white race-as much so as anv spe
cies of property that you own is il
you; consequently we passed an or
dinance appropriating exclusivel-
TO the white race.
The Convention thought that In
negro was morally, socially an
intellectually, the inferior ef tn
white race. and that 10 allow ther
to vote would be nothing more no
. less than putting the governmen
into the hands Of the rabble, an
that the days Of our republic woul