The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01
QUE BONANZA.
a Verbatim Report Of tho Great
(rrOSpectiyc) Speech of
Plaintiffs Senior
Counsel.

GENTLEMEN or TUE JuRY-l'efore
launching ont into the premises pro
and con, / desire to notice u skerIlus
article which appeared in THE HER
AID callin' me in the premises, Sar-
gcant Buz Fu2. guess the Islander was
intended fur me, fur no man, don't
care how degraded he Is, would dare
to say that of either of my sorrell top
associates. Who and what is BIz
FuZ? have been looking all through
Shallspcnr, and can find no such kari
ucter ~ Sergeant HUI t'u2, and If II
amt thar, gentlemen of the jury, whar
il it? No whar Now, Gentlemen,
Bllz means to stir around like II June
bug. Fuz means light; so, suppose,
they mean to say that ! am light
June bug Gentlemen Of the Jury, just
let 'em say that of and concerning me
i'm the premises, and then, although |
have been suffering for years from II
disense the doctors call the prolnXus
uni, IN give II to 'em in sich way
that the kuriner will have to he called
in to make port mortal examination.
So much for myself. Gentlemen of the
Jury, this aint no ordinary case. My
client, heplaintil, Mrs. Fannie Smith,
appears before you ~ clean rs my shirt
| that put on some time last month.
Who IL the man who says She haint n
GOOD karactrr? just let him step out
aud III make him II parties eX cre-
amiuis into stander to this case. Gen
| tlemen of the Jury, what Is karacter :?
II Is the most impecunioost gift vouch'
saw ed to man Well has Bill Shaks-
pear said, "rho mnnn-he was talk
ing to Dick the third, Gentlemen Of
the Jury--"The man who steals my
karacter steals money, and no basket
OF trash, Macbeth" All I! Gentlemen
OF the Jury, for the want of knractor
our first nanny, Eve, fell. The want
OF karacter caused Napoleon to fire up
Moscow aud sent Bismarck II bowling
to Boston. A want OF karacter sent
the Internal British Il helloing back
at the battle OF Orleans,
where General Washington stood
n smoking his old clay pipe and sing
ing "By the Eternal We Have 'Gin
I'm He'll" A want of karacter
made me fight at the battle of Pea
Ridge, and made the Commune of
Paris burn up all the big shanties in
that burg. charge you, gentlemen
of the jury, that the law does like kar-
actcr Sich ~ the law, and you are
required 10y your oaths to take II judi
cial notice of it. The plaintiff, gentle.
men OF the jury, Fannie Smith, came
to this town three years ago, and in
connection with my friend, Mr., Cod
| nnnnnI A utnnI ni..ut.
who ever heard of IL Niger keep
ing peanut stand Gemble
Gentlemen of the jury, nobody. |
challenge the counsel ON tother side to
find case like that in all the books.
| have known her for three years. and
| never heard her called Il Niger until
this defendant, IN vile and liebil-
ious article, said she was u niger.
Amt 1t nothing, gentlemen OF the
jury, to be called Niger? lfyou had
been raised up among the quality in
old Nirginny, like my fair client was,
heard nothing hut parlor talk, had
been sent or TO school to learn
manners and how to claw the
worries, had married four men, who
are all dead but one, and he IL In the
penitentiary, then you would know
what It Is to he called n niger II you
could have seed my client ~ ! seed
her, eating chestAuts, sitting down by
Mr.. Codyeller, and heard her say,
"Confound them HERALD fellers III
make them pay me thirty thousand
dollars for calling me Niger " then
you would know what II Is to be called
u niger.
Gentlemen of the jury, quere--Are
we travelling back to barbarity? Some
people think 80, and sometimes think
they are right in the premises, pro and
con. II does seem that reputation amt
nothing. Amt 1t? If 80, why did
Christopher Columbia, in the days of
our daddies, quit his high livln' and
come to Texas and help us gain our
independence II 1t wasn't for karacter
ELI? Answer me that! believe you'll,
show them. | am happy that this case
IL to be tried by men who know what
II Is to want karacter. Yes; you. are
smart men and know that karacter IL
the whole pint of difference between
the Democrats and Radicals. There Is
my client. Look ut her! Plcter To
yourself the trouble that round, robust
form, weighing some $50 pounds must
have felt when she was called niger.
Are you going to allow such
liebillious thing rs that
come out In the papers? Do so, and
the first thing you know they win be
saying that some Of you ARE nothing
but COMPOUNDED sun OF a sea calf
They have already called me Buz
Fuz, and rs am n trille dark-skInned
and to my great pain am sometimes
called black, they will call me u mig.
ger. am glad, gentlemen of the jury,
You are occupying high Oils. II Is
your high parog0rative TO ventillato
the outraged ma ority Of the law, which
IL catamount 10 saying, you ARE the
biggest thing In tho land. viii you
do NJ I bet you will. Although | am
to get halfo the verdict, give II to