The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-01
MIR. WILLIAM II. PARSONS.

To the Editor of The Dallas Hcrnd
| The man whose name heads this ar
ticle has published an open letter to
Governor Coke, defending himself
against the demands OF the people of
Texas that he should resign his place
M Centennial Commissioner for Texas,
he having been appointed by President
Grant, on the recommendation of
Governor Davis IN 1870.
He has been told that Texas will
not bend her heart to the Centennial
ut Philadelphia, on the Fourth of July,
1876, Ii he remains as the Commissions
or for the State. Now he comes out IN
II long address to Governor Coke to
show that this is bipartisan opposition
to him--that, he, as u DISTINGUISHED pat
triot, has been giving his time and pay
ing his own expenses for three years
in Philadelphia, without salary or in
come, all for the glory of Texas, and
much more such nonsense. Our press
has treated the self-suilicient bantam
cock with too much delcacy. Why
not speak out in meeting and tell the
truth.
Who is Mr.. w, Ii. Parsons? That's
the question.
Let us see.
1t is notorious that up to the close OF
the war, say for eighteen years, he was
Il very poor man, sometimes connected
with newspapers. During the war, or
for about three years Oft he was Colo
mel of II regiment which did good serv-
ice for the South. Sometimes the
regiment dislikod him Others
he would renstate himself by
some slight of hand. But through
out he was laughing stool,
for his men and the balance of the
army, rendered so by his superlative
vanity and coXcomhery. For years be-
fore the war he had been n rampant
pro-slayery adv ocate, and had written
book full of quotations from the Bible
to prove that God had created the ne
gro race especially for slaves to the
Southern people, Stlll he came out OF
the war M n sound Southern man and
was respected by our people, minus
his transcendant coXcomOery and
vanity.
But he was so overwhelmed with the
monstrosity of niger liberty, that he
abandoned the country, went to Brazil
and stayed away about two years.
He returned to New York, became
drummer for carriage and saddle
house, and in that capacity, turned
up again in Texas In 1868.
Yet he was so disgusted with free mig
gers and Radicalism that ho seriously
thought of again quitting Texas and
seeking an asylum in Mexico. But
about that time honest VIM. G. Webb,
editor and proprietor of the Houston
Telegraph, sympathising with his
poverty and misfortunes, gave him
employment on the editorial staff of
that paper. Up to June, 1862 perhaps
two months later, he was u rampant,
unreconstructed rebel, and poured forth
his lamentations In the columns of
that old and honest Journal But all
ut once, In the twinkling of eye, he,
the aforesaid William Henry Parsons,
Hoped over Without notice To or
conference with any old friend, he
suddenly became the Radical candi-
date for the State Senate In the fall
OF 1869, and by the ulggers
was duly elected. The honest people
OF the country, under military rule,
stood aghast and looked slSywards, OH
~ a few daring IN secret plac es TO
whisper, "Sold out Treason Got
his price III"
AS Senator In the Infamous
Twelfth Legislature, with It's three
sessions aud unholy outragcs on the
people of Texas; It's infamous militia
law; its villainous registration md
election laws; its bribed subsidies 20
railroads, aud u multitude of other in
famies, the people of Texas honestly
believed and yet believe that Mr., Par