The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-15
Nrekln 4jrrala,
o.. =. McLUA,E. Editor.
CRUuLLYINIUsr.

CRUELTY UNJUST
The Waco Advance, says the l'rcn- .
ham Banner thiukp that about the
saddest evidence of ruin In South Car
olina that has yet been brought to
light Is the contemplated plan of Gov
crnor Moses to carry the next election
by white votes. There i soon to be /
tax sale of real property all over the
state, and It Is said that arrangements
are being made to enable the owners
to bid their property in, the cOnsidera-
ton expected Of them being their
votes for Moses and his crew. Just
here one becomes incapable of express
ing the utter degradation Of thatunIor-
tunate people.
We do not know from what source
the Advance derived its information,
but this we do know and that is that
the above extract is cruelty unjust to
gallant and long suffering people, who
have endured bravely indignities such
as have not been inflicted upon civil
lied people since the creation Of the
world. They have been made the slaves
of their own slaves. The devil him.
self, if reigning on earth in pr0pr@
persona, would not have been guilty
of such an enormity rs to have sub
iected a brave and. sensitive people to
such an outrage.
If there were any truth in the above
extract, even then, in view of all that
people have suffered it would be I'M
just and cruel to speak of them ms re-
duced to cutter degradation" Unfor-
tunate they may be, and doubtless are,
above all civilized nations on the earth;
but there is no "degradation" in their
misery. They have done all that man
hood could do 70 avert their ruin, but
all without avail. In the providence
of God they seem to have been called
to suffer. That suffering they are bear
ing as bravely as they did the shock of
arms.
1t is true they are being despoiled of
their real estate to have it parcelled out
among their negro rulers. Already an
area larger than the state of Delaware
has been forfeited to the state for nom
payment of the excessive taxes, but
we have yet TO learn of the first man
who has been tempted by the hope OF
saving his property to sacrifice his
character by joining the infamous
crew of negroes and thieves that is rul-
ing and robbing the state.
TO give one instance of the length to
which this spoliation is going, we copy
portion Of letter received by us, on
Monday last, from DR.. a. p. Wylie, OF
Chester, South Carolina. That it may
be fully understood, we would state that
Lyman G. Draper is the secretary OF
the State Historical society of Wiscon-
sin; that he has been engaged for years
in procuring material for life of
General Sumpter, "the game-cock
of South Carolina" and that DR.. Wylie
has been engaged in assisting him in
his researches. DR.. Wylie in his letter
to us copies the following extract from
letter just received from Mr.. Draper:
81 feel sad over the miserable condition
of your state. | had Il letter the other
day from General Sumpters grand
son, Sebastian Sumpter, residing near
Statesburg, in Sumter county, saying
-he had just consigned the remains OF
his only brother, Hon Thomas ID.
Sumpter, to the grave on the old Cen
eral Sumpter homestead-With sad
feelings from the fact that the land had
been forfeited for taxes aud he could
not see how he could redeem it. l am
in debt several hundred dollars, and
vet would gladly contribute fifty dol
lars towards fund TO redeem the
grave and homestead of the gallant
Sumpter and preserve it to his de-
scendants. Cannot such fund be
raised among some of the descendants
of those who knew Sumpter's love of
country, and fought under his banner"'
The bare recital of the facts are sufli-
Gent without any comment. Ihat the
rapacity of the thieves who have the
state in their hands is so great as not
to allow them to spare even the graves
of the revolutionary heroes, should call
forth burst of indignation from every
honest man from Texas to Maine.
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