The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-05
GEORGIA AND TEXAS.

AID we give the report Of sn interview
between the Atlanta (Georgia) Cons is,t.
ton and Colonel 5. B, Spencer. whilom
a resident pedagogue of this city. 1t is
entitled to notice for n any reasons, but
more especially for two leading ones
they are, the respectability of the gem
tlernan himself, and the semblance of
truth which pervades the article. To
sum up in advance and anticipate the
conclusion. we state that the result of
Colonel Spencers short residence in
Texas is, that he believes that Georgia
isa better country, in all respects, than
Texas. We propose to follow, and
see ifthe conclusion is fairly arrived at
The incident of the box of pills won't
hold good, because We regretfully shook
hands with the colonel on the day of
his departure, and solemnly asservate
that to-day in all Gooberdom there is
not a specimen of "robuster' health
than he exhibited. So the chills, which
he triumphantly exhibited to the cons
tiding reporter, must have been taken
on after arrival at home or possibly in
transit.
The colonel tried the law in the west,
bat failed. Texas may be responsible
for the failure entirely, but good
many might be inclined to think that
the party of the second part was re-
sponsible, or at best, that the two ought
10 divide the odium Now as to his life
having been in danger while in the
practice, that's mere moonshine. We.
of all the countless myriads of Georgia
lawyers here, have never heard of one
of them .loosing his life in the line of
duty. Perhaps this nervous anxiety
for the care of his corpus operated to
produce the failure complained of
The colonel doesn't tell US if he found
things any smoother in journ alism;
anyhow, failure resulted. 1t however
is only another evidence OF the truth
that because a man fails at everything
else, he can succeed at journalism.
Then the colonel tried teaching.
How natural the graduation Here the
same result. But that would not
have happened we are persuaded, had
not inconsistencies interviewed Bet it
did, and so it turns ont that the
knoeksd,up Georgian reclines on a
peaceful couch in the interior of the
old commonwealth, in easy reach of
box Of pills and Coasttstioa reporter
The depressing and enervating
climate of San Antonio. That's too
rich, when all the world knows that
the fame of the healthful climate of San
Antonio yearly attracts invalids from
all parts of the world. That ought to
have proved too much even for the
credulity Of our Atlanta cotemporary
Colonel 5. had 81 800 year in Dali
las, and we will wager thousand acres
of Texas land against the best county
IN Georgia that he doesn't make 81 800
this year in that state. So, then, it is
the rough, chaotic, uncertain society to
which he objects. Well, we have new
population, and man would be an
egregious ass to expect the ultra refine-
ment of the east here on the frontier
but the annals of law will disclose that
our population compares favorahly with
the older states in all the essentials of
reverence for law and obedience TO its
behests. People do not open their
arms and purses to strangers here until
I they have learned them worthy it
would be unreasonable to expect it,
and they even do look with suspicion"
on some, but we are very certain that
Colonel s. cannot complain so far as he
personally was concerned
As a large per cent. of our population
is from old Georgia. the comparison of
traits ard characteristics will be about
as heartily condemned in Georgia as
Texas. Colonel 5. reluctantly admits
that our soils are richer than those of
Georgia, and in doing this answers his
own declaration that Texas is not SO
good country for a young man as
Georgia To young Georgian coming
here to try his hand, first q; law, then a
daily psper. and lastly at teaching. and
| all within a year, we would say, stay
at home. But if you want to take hold
of the pillow handles and are willing
to work, and so employ your time
as that the charm and delight
of refined society left behind, will not
weigh you down, then we say come, and
in one year you viii accomplish more
than you can in ten at home. As
for wasting your substance on guano,
Colonel s. himself says we don't know
what it is. Yon will also be agreeabiy
surprised to find the people nearly as
intelligent and refined, as a mass,
as those left behind, and yast-
ly superior to the "sand hiil-
ers'' and "wiregrasse fellows Of
north, central and sosthern 6eor-
gia,
Now. then. we have devoted about
enough space TO Colonel S, and can on
ly advise those who doubt, to come and
see for themselves, and don't tie faith
too implicitly 10 man who tried law,
journalism and pedagogueisn. all three
in one year, and who only experienced
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