Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-07-13


on the 4th inst, according to appointment,
and organized by the selection of Ex-Gov.
E. NJ. Pease, for President. The special of
News says the Convention was composed
of about II white men and five hundred
negroes. Delegates arc in attendance pur-
porting to represent 26 counties, running
from five to thirty to each county.
The correspondent Of the Galveston Bull
letin gives the following remarks on tho
opening day of the Convention:
at is said that as On old miser was dying,
as many better people will do, he chung to
his bag of gold. An attendant exclaimed:
"Oh, sir! don't take that with you; it will
all melt where you are going" We do not
know that the soul of the departed went to
that Baptist church whittier you sent your
correspondent, but had the miser gone there,
fear the result would have been similar.
Imagine little church, crowded on this
4th of July afternoon with new made citi-
zens, the windows blocked up with the same
living commodity-all sweltering, all reek-
ing with exuding steam-in the middle Of
this mass conceive your correspondent and
a few other devoted knights Of the lead
pencil, and you have the faint outlines of
that which was imposed on "YOurs Traly."
have sent you by telegraph the general
details of organization, which l need not
repeat. After Judge Bell had read the
Declaration of Independence, the committee
on credentials reported"
On the second day (July 5th) long
string of Resolutions were offered and
adopted unanimously. The same cor
respondent gives the following account Of
the closing scene:
When the resolutions were adopted, Mr..
Lippard got the Convention to stand, with
uplifted right hands, and with loud acclaim,
to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred
honors, to the platform.
This was rather vehement and rather
dramatic.
After which the Convention adjourned
till P. NJ, that Judge Bell might speak.
The dinner-a barbecue we believe they
call twill come Of on Saturday.
Mr.. Richie, Of Navarro County, related
the circumstances of the murder of his son,
and others in his section of country.
The Convention passed off with the ut
most peace and decorum. The citizens OF
Houston appeared to pay no attention to it.
or to desire to modest it in any way what
ever.
This ends the Convention, and may the
next one be held when the days are cold
This is the prayer Of
Yours truly, W.
The Houston Telegraph says: Of the Con.
vention:
The Radico- Negro State Conven-
ton, which commenced its session
in this city on the Fourth, is already
manifestly, a dead, disastrous failure
as it deserved to be. Unless, in
deed, it may serve the purpose o.
exemplifying tho ridiculous folly
and malignant criminality of trying
for the sake of personal aggrandize
ment, to place the State Govern
ment and the white citizens Of the
State, under the control of the ne
groes, headed by few ambitions
and unprincipled white men.
The thousands of negroes who
were expected, did not come. The
'Lord saw fl to food the country
with rains, and the difficulties o
travel thus increased kept many
away. Many of those who came
soon became dissatisfied. They hat
expected n grand jubilee, and to b,
received with hospitalities, honor
and rejoicings. Instead of this theJ
struggled through the streets as IN
welcome strangers, the gazing stool
ofmischievous boys and unemployed
men, black and white. They search
ed eagerly for expected friends
lodgings, aud food, and had a fan
opportunity TO settle The Old cues
ton Of the frontier debating sOeie
ties. (which coniers the creates
b.pf iuess the 1a-Suit CT possession