Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-12-03
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As have come among the poo
| pie ofTsxas"r stranger in asaahg'
land" with the fixed determination
Of making II my future homo, aud
adding whatever talents God hai
/ given mo toward the building al
Of this magnificent domain--6ns o
tho most beautiful and inviting OF
Gods green earth. And rs ms
views aud impressions may interest
others who desire TO come 10 Texas
| will proceed TO give them also my
views of tho ''politieal situation
as interpreted BY the domocrati,
party In tho North and West, and
IL my views nrc not IN harmony
with opinlons others may entertain
| | do not wish to quarrel with such
persons, but would simply inform
I Them that those views do mt oma-
nate from amy person OF power or
position, but are simply the cifu'
sions ofan unoblrusivc " Buckeye
Boy" and will pass for what they
are worth:
Texas ID virtually an unknown
country 10 tho great body Of tho
people of the North and West, They
have turncd thelf eyes toward Kan
sas and Nebraska, rs the Now I'll
Dorado Of their hopes, which, alas,
many Hill mover realize, and thith-
or they have journcycd and poo
Piled those States with n rapidity
that has scarcely parallel in the
History or emigration. Those States
havc outstrippcd Texas in the
growth of their population-being
III tho samo latitude with tho most
thickly settled portions of tho I'm
ion, and naturally tho "Star OF En-
pirc Yields its Way" toward the set
ting sun. And Congressional legis'
lnturo has given those States iacili'
Ties for building railroads, which
now everywhere penetrate that
great western country. Wo need
then not wonder why they have
grown so rapidly, and then agencies
have been at work in almost every
State in tho Union, and in many
countries of Europe, to dispose Of
their lands and present their claims
to the consideration of the people.
Railroad companies We'd with each
other in granting special terms and
privileges to those seeking homes
along their respective lines.
When that great avonuc of com,
morco and civilization tho iron rda
shall penetrate Texas from tho
North and East, then hor star viii!
surely be in the ascendant, and null
titudes will leave the over-crowded
Eust and less productive Middle,
Western and Southern States, cpd
will build homes on these beautiful
ani'terlilo prairies Of which they
havo never even yet had Il faint
conception
The pcoplc of tho North, rs Il
class, are almost as ignorant of TeS-
as rs they are Of the %ilds of Etheo-
pia A icw travellers now and then
have given their faint and imperfect
sketches of this country. | left
homo determined TO see and judge
for myself, nnd the reality has far
exceeded my expectation; for far
up in the Yankee country, as The
South call it, had heard nothing
falitring concerning the lands and
productions Of tho Lone Star State
And then tho persistent calumnies
which wore continually uttered by
mon claiming to be themselves
Texans, against the peace and 80.
cial order of their own pcoplo, and
%hich The Radical i'fCss took cspo.
cial delight in circulating through
out tho older States, formed anoth-
or powerful agency in preventing
the growth and prosperity of this
c5itftry. but instead of boing out
laws, my experience thus far, has
been that the people of TeSas pre-
as law-abiding as can bo fourd in
any community in the land.
In Wow of tho disabilities under
which tho people of Texas are
placed, it is remarkable and highly
creditablc to them that they are
ablo 10 maintain snch perfect order.
But Notwithstanding thoir self-ab-
negation, they, including the whole
South, are pcrsistently vilifcd by
the Radical press throughout tho
country, and however radicals may
attempt TO extenuate their guilt by
the r.diculous twaddle oftho ''course
of events" regulating political at.
fairs, the people of the South will
remember that they need expect
no Justice from the rule of Radical
ism, and when Northern men will
tell them that the majority of the
Northern people do not approve OF
radicaiism ms il e&ists in the South,
they should be branded as faisifiers.
They do believe in niggcr juries-
in niger Legislatnres-niSger con
grcssmen-nigger Senators (for the
Southland even Niger vicc.
Presidents, and any Northern man
who comes hero and argues differ
emily, is either a fool or knave.
I bl0sh TO acknowledge this fact,
but truth compels me to do so. Be
IL said TO the everlasting disgrace
of my country. Congress is oyer,
wheimingly radical, and radical
districts vie with each other in re-
elccting the Binghams and Buffers
who lla<e made themselves con-
spiuuonsly infamous in the persist
ent pcrsecutions AID tyrannical
measures which they have imposed
on The Southern people. Can the
South believe that the rank and file
of the Northern people do not en-
aorse these rreasdres when they
persiscntly vote for men whose
greatest ambition it is 70 oppress
and hnmiliate herpeople 2 Rclent-
less hate offi1e Southern people Is