Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-09

vaughn anu bTecn must w ulspoH'
cd Of 1t was your officers who
coming TO Lexington under thcialse
pretcncc Of aiding to execute pro-
cess were soon found hunting
Vaughan and Green, with orders to
arrest them dead lr alive, and twas
your officer who is found compelling
Mr. Berry, by threats against his
life, and with loaded revolvers point
cd at his head, to testify to notori.
GUS falsehoods against Vaughan aud
Green, ialsehoods so infamous and
atrocious as should make your name
thing of scorn and kissing among
all honorcd men forever, If your
Excellcncy could only have stimu.
lated IN ignorant and desperate band
of ruiliians to murder Vaughan and
CIR en-, in the place of Mason, Rich,
ardson and Clements, you would
more readily perhaps have carried
out your real purpose in this ncia.
rious business. OF this l am well
convinced and | will now say TO
you what it concerns you to know ;
should my life in any manner fall,
by means which can be traced di-
rcctly or indirectly to you. you may
not escape. .Thcru will be those
living who know how to deal with
an assassin, OF all the victims OF
your brutal and reckless cruelty
in this county, only one had COM
mitted an offence ngaint the law
Clements had been Il rebel and n
buswhacker, but he came home on
your pledge Of protection, and you
murdered him. | venture to say to
You that personal and political NAL
ice and that ofscvcral other p sons
conspiring with you, have led to all
these diaboIicaI proceedings. Every
Que Of the above outrages, aud 9th
crs not here reciteJ, were commun-
icatcd to you as they trapspired; it
you 'disapproved of any of them it
is unknown to any of this commu.
nifty. II ssaid that you have given
public and significant appreciation
to all of them, by making Mont
gomery Brigadier General. thus
rewarding his crimes. In 1861, you
and | stood together rs Union men.
We both entered the military SER
vice Of the United States When
Price led his army to the scige of
Lexington | and my sons were
there with Mulligan and shared his
fate. As soon as exchanged | again
entered the army, and served till
near the end of the war. Your in
situations against my patriotism
only prove more conclusively that
you are reckless and unblushing
liar. After our State was disgraced
by your election as Governor, a
sense of duty compelled me to op-
pose your administration, when You
began to exhibit those traits of
character which have placed you
before the people of Missouri as the
most unprlnclpleu OF men. L dc-
nounced you us such when you put
up for sale under the highest moral
and political obligations of a public
trust. the Missouri railroads, cccept.
ed from political partisans and pets
less, by hundreds Of thousands of
dollars, than the property was
worth. and was actually bid for by
other parties of equal or greater re-
sponsibility thus squandering the
public funds and cntailing upon a
suffering and overburdened people,
n yet heavier and more protractcd
taxation / pronounce you a knare
and q smindler, and l now repeat
that these railroad transactions, for
which no one has ever attempted to
find an explanation, have made it
impossible to put another estimate
on your character.