The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-12
FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT TEXAS.

A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT TENA~'
We propose in this article to have an
old-fashioncd, honest talk with the
outside world in particular, and with
our own people in general, ana II we
should err in anything we may say,
we hope our friends will correctus, for
truth like virtue, brings its own rewards
and always in due season. First, we
would like to dissipate that fearfuliy
erroneous impression which has seized
upon the good people ofthe older States,
that Texas Is sort.of entrance gate TO
Belzcbub's kingdom, and that the man
who can weather through the murders,
larcenies, robberies and arsons when
20 to make up the current transactions
of this country and its people, can enter
upon n crusade through hell without
fear of getting single blister ON his
feet; provided, always, that such a pill
grimage be commenced in the natural
way, and by that we mean, from n nat
ural and not an artificial cause. we
have known Texas and her staunch
citizens long enough to say in all can
dor, that her soil is the richest, her
resources the most varied, her induce
ments for immigration the greatest of
any land upon which the sun in his dur
nal course looks down upon, and asfo
the people who have been bold enough
to overcome the prejudices which pre-
vail against them and their State i'll
almost every community beyond
the borders, that they are hon
est. chiyalrous and under all circum-
stances as true Us steel tnall the higher
principles of integrity and virtue prac-
tloed by the most enlightened inhabit-
ants of the world. they are Godrfear-
ing, law-abiding people, hospitabie ana
kind and ever ready to aid the needy
or succor the helpless. The crowning
glory OF the old idea of American lib
erty has settled upon the efforts OF THIS
people, for while they do not brook
insult and injuries with.that pacific res
ignation which has entailed upon our
sister States million of political Ills
which are heavier than human forhcnrs
ance can endure, they are still civilized,
and always respectful Of every .consti-
tutional and Individual right which
pertains to every man who may come
among them. We do not hesitate to
say TO honest men who may oomeinto
our borders, that protection to their
lives, their liberty and their property
is more universally and perfectly guar
antaed In Texas than in any other State
South of Masons and DiXon's line.
The thief assassin, loafer, dead beat
and incendiarles, who have met sum
mary greetings Mt the hands OF her
people in earlier times, have simply
received here the deserts they should
have gotten in the places from which
the have escaped. But the honest,
industrious and true men who once
comes among this people, begins at
once to thrive and prosper and to be
respected for his merits. Thisis the
sort of immigration we want, and the
sort we are daily inviting to come
among us and live. Up to the present
writing, we need 10 played.oub prcach-
ers who cannot afford to labor in our
vineyards for the love Of God, and who
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come among us to catch an inspiration
of the iniquities that prevail in Texas,
in order that they may return to their
old stamping grounds fully armed with
false ideas which they proclaim rs gos-
pcl truths, and in which they vainly
ondeavor 20 show that Hadez lies. just
beyond the Rio Grande, which they
denominate as the river Styx, never
forgetting in their metaphors to insin-
uatc that Texans compose that hopeless
class not yet fcrried over. We have
had just such men, who profess to be
followers of the "mecls and lowly Saw
\ ior,n to come among US, and we have
watched their career after they have
| left us, and so far as clerical mendacity
is concerned, know whereof we speak.
We have no need for fancy fellows,
whose education consists entirely in
knowing how to wear fine clothes, how
to part their hair in the middle and
how to flourish with eclat, a dainty
lgold-headed cain. No q wonrinzklller
need apply" Thieves are not in
vited to come to Texas but honest men,
who can appreciate the most delicious
saccarinc flavor i'm every thing they eat
that is produced by the sweat of their
brows, can come and be welcome.
Here they can find hospitable homes
and warm friends ready to initiate
them into the great brotherhood OF
common interests, which gives to Tex
as her vitality as an advanced and a
progressive State, Our wide plains,
inexhaustible in. the fertility Of their
soil, and subsisting with the rich, ,spon-
taneous grasses that grow altover them,
thousands of cattle and horses, arc
waiting the advent Of such mon, wha
have only to tickle their surface with
the harrow to see them smile with the
most bounteous and profitable harycsts-
We want working men, who are not
afraid of sunshine or of shadow, who
: know their own and who are known
by iheiF ogp. Sach men han nnn ~
Texas what no other State can present
. them in the way of indncemcnt foi
location. To those who have never
lived in or saw such country as ours,
trip hither would pay. even though
IL should decide them in returning
to the red hills or miasmatic bottoms
East of the Mississippi. No where Oh
our continent has the Almighty dis
played his handiwork sa ne has here
Like an unending scroll De has