Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-06-01


held at that place an the lllh'
While the resolutions We're being
prepared, Il number orspcechos were
delivered, Our worthy townsmnn,
DR., Wallace, in response to call
made upon him by the most rcspcc-
table portion Of tho audience, ap-
pcarcd, and in few well chosen re-
marks explained to the negroes the
nature of their new relations, told
them of the responsibilities that de-
volvcd upon them in their changed
condition, and of the great necessity
for harmonious action between them
selves and the whites.
His remarks were exceedingly
well-timcd and pertinent, and had
they been seconded by other white
speakers who addressed the meet
ing, less i'll feeling would have been
engcndercd and more harmonious
results obtained.
But, alas this was not the object
of the meeting. 1t was intended to
stir up discord rather than to pro-
mote harmony, as the sequel clearly
demonstrated. But Of this pres
emily.
A number of colorcd speakers ad-
dressed the meeting, and consider
ing its object, we must say their
language was less virulcnt than we
were prepared to expect; one es-
pecially, we call to mind, who told
his colored brethren that the white
mans interest was the interest Of
the colored man, and that the two
should sustain each other in all mat
ters affecting their material and
political welfare. The only doubt,
(and it was but Il doubD noticeable
in the speeches of any of them, so
far as we could perceive, was a dis
trust that possibly Southern men
would not do them jnsticc; bute it
was clearly manifest if they were
assured on this point, they would
prefer them as their teachers and
leaders. Tncy expressed no feelings
of uukindness towards the Southern
people, nor on the other hand did
they express any decided affection
for their Radical liberators.
When the colored men had con-
cluded, the Committee through their
Chairman, A. J. Evans, Esqr., re-
ported u series of resolutions, which
were adopted,
Mr.. Evans, commented on these
resolutions, taking them up Seriattm.
We know not in what terms to ex-
press the malignant and vitupcrative
character Of his remarks.
He unblushingly maligned the
people Of the county in their treat
ment of the negroes, and made state
ments in this connection that can
not find respectable substantiation.
We are utterly at Il loss to conceive
how any man, who possesses the
least spark of gratitudein in his bosom
towards apeople who have nurtured
and sustained him from infancy,
could so far forget q manly sense
of his obligation as to give utter
rance to such revolving and dis
graceful sentiments. He congrat-
ulated the negroes that they would
no longer be molested in the enjoy
ment oftheir constitutional preroga-
tives-that the harsh and unprovok-
ed enormities heretofore practiced
upon them by virtue of the existence
Of rebel mobs would no longer be
tolerated, but discreetly omitted to
state in this connection, that he was
once arraigDed and prosecuted as an
inciter of moblaw himself, and only
escaped the penalty prescribed by
the Statutes on account Of the un-
fortunate absence OF several reputa-
BILE witnesses whose evidence would
have undoubtly convicted him.
He told them moreover, he re-
joiced that the cruel and inhuman
institution ofslavery had been ef-
fectually overthrown, that they
would now have an equal chance in
the race for life. But at this point
he was guilty of another those in
territorial omissions, viz: to state
that he foresaw the overthrow Of
slavery in the beginning ofthe war,
and took seasonable precaution to
dispose of the negroes then owned
by him at their highest marketable
value.
A more incendiary harangue
could not have found utterance in
the very hot-beds of radicalism, and
this too from man who was a vol
untary subscriber to the Confederate
oath of allegiance-a soldier in the
Confederate Army-a native.boin
Southern man, and one indebted,
for his support, to the generous
patronage of Southern public
Truly, Esop's fable of the Man and
Serpent has been literally realized,
"Be gone; 60 home; fall upon your knees;
Pray to the Gods to intermit the plague
Tha. needs must follow such base ingrati-
tude.
In striking contrast with the
fustian and bilingsgate oratory OF
A. J. Evans, was the speech deliver
ed by Mr.. Davis, who is employed
by the Freedmen as the teacher of
their school at this place. He stated
that he was a Northern man by
birth and education, and therefore
his political principles were at vari-
ance with those of the people of the
South; but as far as his individual
influence extended he would most
cheerfully exert it to restore feelings
of concord and amity where they
once existed, and where they should
now properly belong. His effort
was a commendable one, and created
a favorable impression upon every
one that heard 1t.
But for the prompt and efficient
measures taken bv Capt. Emerson