The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-10-26
From the Waco, (Texasl Register. Oct. ST.
The Indiana Texas Colony.

colony has been forming for some
time in the flourishing section OF
Richmond, Ind, with the view Of
emigrating to Texas. Not long
since DR.. +. w. Taylor and Mr..
Harvey, prominent leaders in the
movement, were selected by the
colonists to visit Texas for the
purpose CT reporting their impress
ions OF the country and recon-
mending a location. Our readers
will remember that we noticed Il
short time since the arrival in our
State of Mcssrs. Taylor and Har-
vey and their visit TO this section
From St. Louis they we're accom-
panied by Col. Lippald, our ELI
cicnt agent Of the Texas Bureau Of
Immigration for the Western States,
as far as his home in Hill county.
The formation or such colony be-
coming known, many letters we're
written from different points in our
State to The Richmond, Ind. Raii-
cal paper that has manifested es-
pecial interest In getting up inn
migration 10 Texas and has been
considered the organ, rs il we're of
this colony. These letters Were
OF course for the purpose OF AZ
tracing the attention Of the colony
10 the places from whence they
were written: all proper enough to
be sure, for it is certainly the privi-
eye OF every place in Texas, desir-
ing migration, to make itself as
well and as favcrably known as it
can. Correspondence OF this sort
from Dallas became especially con-
spicuous and profuse in the columns
of the Radical from week to week.
Somebody or bodies at Dallas had
no doubt set their hearts on secur-
ing the Indiana colony and making
q fine thing out of it by selling
lands or in some other way.
DR.. Taylor and Mr.. Harvey came
on; they visit Dallas and the region
round about and pass on to see
other parts of the State without
contracting for any body's land or
leaving any pledges behind as to
where the colony would be recon-
mended to SETTLE.
We now come to the great in
justice being perpetrated in this
matter, and the attempt of the in
terested Dallas parties, aided, eth
er Willingly or unwittingly, we are
sorry to see, by the Radical, to
whip DR.. Taylor and Mr.. Harvey
into selling out the colony, wheth.
er or no, to Dallas. The last Dali
las Herald comes with a most abu-
sivc and undignified attack upon
DR.. Taylor and Mr.. Harvey, baeei
upon the assumption that they
either wilfully or from gross neeli-
| gence, overlooked tho beauties and
desirableness OF the Dallas region.
The Herald is not pleased with the
letters which DR.. Taylor is writing
back to the Radical. We also are
reading the letters, and while they
speak OF the Dallas region and all
other regions, respectfully, they
have not as yet named Dallas (ol
any other place. as THE place fol
the colony to move to, and that's
what's the matter with Dallas. The
Dallas spectators mistrust from
the tone of DR.. Taylor's letters tina
they have not bagged the gam,
and their disappointment finds ven
in this very unjust attack upon thu
two gentlemen (and gentlemen
they are, we believe, in all repects
sent out as the agents of the col
ony. The Herald visits a part o
its wrath upon Col Lippard, unie
the suspicion that he might hav'
advised Messrs. Taylor aud Harvey
to view fields other than those Of tn,
Dallas paradise. 5 &
So show the spirit Of the Her.
AIDS article We make the following
extracts, speaking more particular
ly of DR.. Taylor and his letters.
We have read this letter over carefull
two or the times, and with each reading hav
been the more convinced of the unsuitable
ness of the agent sent out by our Indian
friends His trip from Sherman to this cit
!, was .ltogether too hasty to allow him to fin
, out anything reliable of the country ihroug
which he few con the wing" Where b
> dined and where he slept and where he washe
, his face and took his breakfast, he seems
have made some enquiries as to what pal
!. If tue world his entertainers came from
Q and how many children they had.
Has this Solomon the brains OF goose, q
y does he imagine his Indiana friends to be ]
!. that condition.
So
Poor man! What judge Of soil and prt
8 ductionl If the friends he has left benin
!, him are all of his sort, we advise the colon
: to emigrate to the eastern portion of Mort
Carolina, where sand and pine trees are pler
tiful, aud where there is mo- soil rich enoue
to be "sticky," when it rains, and then v
. think they might find life endurable."
o. Such may be the Herald
= method of inducing immigration