Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-17
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vIeKsDuRG, Mss, May 5, 1873.

NIeKsBURG, Miss, May D, 1878.
DEAR HERALD: When last wrote to
your readers through your columns, it was
my scrvent hope that the hand Of diseasei
which has laid so heavily upon the head of
my little one for nearly month past,
would by this time be so paralyzed by the
mnistrations Of those who attend her, as
to allow my departure from this country
and elmo to the more congenial regions
that lie directly beneath the rays hat fall
so brightly from the star of empire. But
human hopes are not always TO be realized
and the calculations of our finite capaci-
ties sometimes miscarry. So ii has hap
pened to me. To-day find myself sur
rounded by nm impossible barrier--held
close prisoner by the immeasurable sym
pathies which every parent feels for his
offspring when pain and lingering illness
tighten their held upon the little forms we
delight so much il loving and protecting.
am no nearer departure now than when
last wrote, unless the silver chords of
life which binds my baby 10 earth be
broken sooner than we now expcct-her
restoration TO health, if at all will be
some considerable time in the future.
Under the circumstances by which nm
surrounded your can easily conceive of
the unpleasantness of my visit which l
kal po;ntod IN corgsonc ootnru f,lI ~
that gushing expression which gives to life
a deeper reality and to the sincerity of our
purposes n brighter living of hopeful
success. had cherished the dcsire to tell
in tiny own way the boundlessness of
your magnificent commonwealth, OF its
diversified interests, Of its undcveloped |
and unknown wealth, and of how its
people flourish amid plenty, worshiping
their God meath the shadows of their |
tabled fig trees, acquiring, achieving, ad-
vancing and progressing as they are with
no off cial blood.hounds upon their trail,
excited with cupidity and bent upon exter-
mination. It would have been pleasant TO
me to direct the attentions of those PEG.
pie who are tax.ridden and oppressed in
every right which constitutes the essence
Of freedom, to the wide acres that lie
stretched out in gorgeous beauty around
your growing city, promising q hearty
laugh of richest harvest TO every honest
hand that will apply the tickling barrow
10 their fallow faces.
But these diversions, which would have
been so enjoyable in their recreative effect,
have been denied me, and in their stead the
lismal gloom and foroboding doubts which
always linger in the sick room have occu-
pied me to their complete exclusion. The
lay is not far distant, however, when
Texas will assume her true position in the
stella association Of the country, and when
her bright erb will be the center gem that
lecks th e national coronet. The advance
ng tendencies of the age are leading en-
erprise to new fields, and Texas attracts
L more than ell the other States of the
Union Soon the railroad systems of your
State, 50 rapidly interlacing all your in
srests, will accomplish the end and acme
II the magnificent destiny before her.
Soon the neigh of the iron horses, which
will make your wales and valleys musical
With reverberating harmon lee, will wake
Up the dreamers and put men to working
Rho have been sleeping away golden
tours, enjoying proGllcss repose. II
These facts are better known by stran-
,ers than by your own citizens, who,
hough active and industrious in all their
ngagemenis, are not Sufficiently eompre-
cnsive in their enterprises. The local
rads Of your section can never be just
for the magnificent advan-
ages with which nature has endowed your
tate with lavish munifcence. Texas !
our, ground at Dallas, should be found {
4 every store that stands between tie
Iississippi and the Atlantic. south Of the
lteral boundary line that defines where
re csiton interest ceases and the cereal 8
lsersst begins. In The advancement Of {
lis end alene there is work worthy Of :
's efforts Of your whole people, who :
'onid dream no longer over the heaps Of v
'ldsn ingOis which lie rustiug in their d
,ulis, but awake, sand that right early" ?
The sense Of their duty in this ma tier. !,
Ten yonr readers that bread, the staff 3
life, is more essential 10 The eratiiea- s
IN Of human demands than all the cot D
n The hsnispheres produce; tell them 10 Z I,
ID the foolish lsb0rsrs in The Eastern d