The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-07
A TEXAN PAYS EIS RESPEC rs
70 ]. S. BUCKLES, OF
GENESEo!
How Buckles Fights His Cases in tho
Newspapers Instead Of in the
Courts
Some Of his Misrepressntatioas Corrected

Some Of his Misrepresentatioas Corrected
From the San Antonio Crexas) Daily Herald
CAsTBoTILLE, Texas May 81, 1874.
Editors Herald:
Having recently read in the Geneseo,
GIL, Republic, of Feb. q, '74,a very sour.
rilous and slanderous article written by
lawyer Buckles Of that State, on Bandera
county and its citizens. and, also, several
articles in your late papers by Mr., Jno;
James and others, in refutation of said
slanderous TRADES, | will now, with your
leave, give you Bucket on Buckles, to
which, in justice to the mahgned, you will
please give room in your paper.
That lawyers have frequently taken suits
on spec, when they believed they would
pan out well, | have heard before, but that
lawyer, who has the least pretensons to
decency and honor, should 60 to the ex-
tent of belying and slandering an entire
section of country and its inhabitants, in
order to manufacture or create favorable
opinion preparatory to the trial of his case
in Illinois, has never before come to my
knowledge will say here, in the outset,
thatI am not interested in the Jack will case
to the value of the paper this refutation
is written on, and it makes no difference to
me who NAV finally get the large and fine
estate of Cant Jack described bv Rnctles
-whether this indefatipable Ruckjes and
his client, or the heirs at law. under Jack 5
will.
Tn his article of Feb 9th. Buckles saws
something about the DEVILS apron string
breaking in Bandera county, hence the
large quantity of rocks.
It is well known fact that Buckles and
party. in going TO and returning from Ban
dera, travelled the San Antonio and Ban
dera road by the Culebra, Now, if his
anxiety to serve his cause in Illinois by
slanderinr BandeIa county and its people
had permitted him TO reflect one single in
slant. and if he had consulted the mans of
Bapdera counties he would have discover
ed that that mart Of his devils performance
happened in Bexar county, a. the latter
county extends in that direction and along
the San Antonio and Bapdera road to
about 3 miles above Don Pedro GALLAGHER
ranch. on San Geronimo creek, whence the
road enters Medina county, and that conse-
aueptly no part of the lower and most rocky
chain of hills belongs to Baulcra. lint tn
Bexar and Medina counties His twaddJo
about there not being grass enough to sun.
mort sheen or cattle even in the very worst
of those hills, does not reouire any rcfufa.
ton, and. indeed, could onIy be expected
from a malicious slanderer or "proenhorn. "
as everybody the least Acquainted with
West Texas knows better, According to
his description. the hills in Bexar and Me.
dina counties are little inferior tn tho very
rocky mountains of tbe Andcs-hluffv
mountainous. miserable God for.oker
when in truth the highest of them vorv
little exceeds 400 feet in HEIGHT and the
verv largn nun,hor of oo,,,o "a " a'i ,'J
wool annnoII, n crn,,, "'''
~ Of once Jisnrdvae lie o lot '0'''
RrotIoS tatas r,roat 80 ~ H. r.;,l,
70 ;nGnrn, and ,nstrot ,ba rJon q e Nv
Gennseo Pen,,II;c to connect III, or,;a'io
ogainSt Randera oonnt,, nh D., s,,;,
oSa;nst snma ~ Cont Jacl' y Ln;rs WI,
d0n;t he inform tbam of nn,rn Itn f,rn,a,. 3
Iv onn If Cant Iact's slaTns ,Lnsa nT,;
dance ~ renortnJ wos vor,, c,r'railo =,
Rnclloe and his clont9 Rrt " .ho n', ,ba ~
worthy cbr;stian Lagon ~ c,o VIZ, tLn+ ' ,%n
nromiSed .tsnonJrI;v :" ,nicb, nnt Ln tarth
coming constance strirlan Lo rn,ro ",''
his fnrmer statement and tternLr Jnstr',,
ed considerable oF Gan, .E,ct's ;n.an;99,,
and good manv castles LY;it tbornn ,''' H.
BUCKLES the rrtat frayelIor AMI nay, ~
in Western Tevas ''''>' ''''' ~"
As for Cant Jocl'y mill ,,.r;,..,,, 1,.l Hin,
sole i NH .nl ,n,,lt "'' w.. .'''l ~ mn
sonndnoes of ,,';nj ~ Il, 49, ~ aCo',io 1''I
dorL, r. tbo rrl.,,',,, 'uu
tbough he is could ,n".h ;,,%ra,,o ''" w.
dncnnant or r,r;to Lnt,or , ~, i'''O ''''''
AS for his jnscrin,;nn n t;,,,bor i, Ro,
dora county il - I'll r,oonsl;,a al 49,
Everybody in rho Omit, tbn laast -,
ed t1ows that tbere b3ro Lann hn 'piU''i'
If Thousands Of dollars of exnress timber.
shingles, walnut timber, Re. yearly emf
and exported to other counties, and that
nearly all the government forts in the West
and North have been constructed of Ban.
dera county timber and shingles, besides
the fine cedar timber yet abundant in the
Northern part of the county. In speaking
Of Bandera county having but one and q
half volumes of records. where Henry !
county, Illinois. has a hundred of them. the /
great Bugle of Illinois forgets that Teyas |
only got its Independence from Mexico in
1886, and that twenty wears ago the country
West and North of San Anton;o yraS a no.
feet Wilderness ;nboI;toj H., IT, H. IT, !" n
snaat;na ~ ,,,II;a a !, '."ta lS l"
tbe foljowing liz saTbor a no IL. p'';a'eS
'nI toiogins nc ihcy are kept IN a
Nv a con9nanv on 81 81 an Oau otaiuins gIii5
Joct on, e = III; - ipye9 .noy s".hu'eu
and oCras Of LA nF'n Al nun several Ill9uS
The fartS and tho - ~ h'ov ''s nalug NnIh
hole i So r,a a. i 'iiit 'i'o tIpoy
font witl '"o,Sy'ly ram in!nlidng 4gXto
il g,xao bnii, "Cs.Uiy Uniting at sac 70
coin in Isi- I "' "u i, eAp Cnse oi 9o'oOo IN I
and do now own ,ho nI lay WHO owned; /
the Land in and 80 ",V r., portion VI
money thew sw;ndIeJ j'I an. "ie'I i 10. oG' OF