The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-22
"CRUELLy UNJUST


the DALLAS HERALD wants to know
where we got our information about
the scheme of Moses to carry South
Carolina by saving the confiscated
plantations to the whites. The South
Carolina correspondent of the New
York sun was our authority, but as we
had no idea of being charged with be-
ing "cruelly unjust to anybody, we
did not file away paper for proof. 1t
can scarcely ue expected that the die
tum of the HERALD shall he considered
law in South Carolina matters, and
consequently we shall continue to
credit the statement ofthe SUMS cores
pondent, for there is no reason for the
correspondent of apnper friendly to the
south to put himself to the trouble OF
going all the way to South Carolina in
order to be "cruelly unjust' to her peo-
ple.-[Waco Advance, l4th instant.
We think if our amiable contempt
rary of the Advance had read our arti-
Gle critically he would have found no
occasion for losing his temper on the
idea that we had charged him with be-
ing "cruelly unjust" to the people OF
South Carolina. We began by saying,
1--WE do not know from what source
the Advance derived its information"
clearly showing tn ereby that wesup-
posed that the Advance had picked up
the item from some of itseXchanges. We
diG not for n moment suppose that the
editor of the Advance believed that the
white people of South Carolina were so
base as to become the supporters OF
Moses and his robber band for the sake
of saving what little of property is
left to them. We could not sup
pose that there was any man in the
southern states so ignorant of the his
tory of that people as to credit such a
story for moment.
AS to the friendship of the New
York Sun to the south we are bound to
confess ourselves ignorant. II. ii.
Dana, its editor, has always been one
of her most fanatical haters and bitter
est revilers. AS the assistant secretary
of war he stands responsible for some
of the most cruel outrages that were
perpetrated during the four years ofhos-
tility. He labored in 1868 with all the
powers of his pen to secure the cleo
ton of Grant, heaping upon the south
and its people villiticatiOn and billings
gate unsurpassed by any Of the foul
writers of his section. He expected as
his reward place in the cabinet, or at
least one of the leading foreign mis-
sions. When Grant profiered him a
subordinate position in the New York
custom house his rage knew nc
bounds; he at once concentrated all the
batteries of his wrath upon Grant i'll
the Sun, and from that time until the
present has made use of the Villainies
practiced in the south to serve him in
his attacks upon the administration.
His apparent friendship has no
other meaning than this: II
Grant, as seems likely, should turn
on another tack and begin to treat the
south with fairness and justice, then,
in that case, we have no doubt that
the long suppressed feelings of Dana
would have fair play, and he would be
found among our most energetic per-
sscutors.
We have no disposition to cause our
contemporary of the Advance to cease
ciediting the statements of the Suns
correspondent. The idea that "the
dictum of the Herald" was TO "be con-
sidered law in South Carolina mat
ters," never had n Judgement in any
other train than that Of our contempt
raEy.
We knew one of the Suns cores
pondents. His name was Ardie Pugh.
He went to South Carolina several
years ago, spent several months writ
ing up the state for the Sun, dealt
mostly in barlesque and imaginary de-
scriptions of the legislature and public
officers, returned to the north, was ar
rested us defaulting paymaster ard
deserter from the United States navy,
was tried and convicted, and is, we De-
fieve, now in the penitentiary.