The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-07-31
TEXAS As IT Is AND WAS.
some Interesting Reading.


GoLrAD. TEXAS. July 22d. 1880.
D1As vlploAToR Away out on this
ontier-removed from personal jeal'
ousy. envy and selflshness-the work
Of tho vlxplcAros, I cay With pride
and swelling heart. 10 appreciated.
and tho paper is read and admired.
When manhood Was demanded TO
yindicate and uphold Democracy,
and Il took something more than
money and brains to be On opponent
OF Radicalism. that paper sPoxs! and
hero to-day, it, editor ID congrstula'
ted beyond bic humble deserts.
This, perhaps. IL personal. yet tho
reader Can apply tho moral.
0ol,AD. tho centre Of . large cattle
raising country Of tho same name.
the .viciusge Of those immense pa.
lures OF which We read, has . history
older than cd Natchitoches. which I
| am sure wilr be Of interest to your
| flve thousand readers. It Was here
that IAxsIx marked with his blood
the page Of history consecrated u
embalming In deathless memory
the deeds Of those Who perished thai
mankind might be free. At tho Al
Axo, TaAvls, Bowie and ORocxEr
: showed the minions Of power how
freemen and Americana can die, and
. on tho gentle slopes Of tho grass
! covered hills Of La BAHIA, opposite
this town, FANNIx and 400 - Draw
a ever trod proud earth. were basel!
shot b. URlA and his nexicans aftel
!. they he'd surrendered - prisoners o
), war. I visited yesterday evening, Il
}. company With Hon. Ssz1 woodruff
10 prominent young lawyer and Ooun
! y Attorney Of this County, the 3
HuINs OF THI MISSION OF La BAHIA.
q Herr - marked the reoeding shad
}. dow Of . dead civilization. The stoi
n aces Of the Mexican inhabitant
81 okDw the Indian blood OF tho sncel
4. tors, IL the lost sosrsys the lazy mel
women, boys and dogs. which sve
70 Tho mixture Of Spanish blood coul
n not arouse "a rot. The stone bull
:: inss ssecssd and occupied By tho
Y whom Aat powerful human soclsey'
d ~ Js0uits. chlisljanissd q Lea
= 30 n ruins, and tensuted By ba1
:: and owls. The remains Of the aborig
:. nal inhabltant arc 'sQuattsd"
!. rude wood aud mud wall huts thatcl
q "a With long pserie grass-mud doo
y and sawhide beds ars the rule. %
4 oas Iesli ed whom standing q
70 Wsss. beside tho open grave Of . d
% parted grandeur, that can point 70
Iv pest 10 which b crowded the ngur
= Of "a AIvx11z, q ConfIz and q DDo
= 90. Darn depicts In glowing Il
= guaQD the st1ooitiee Of tho Sponia'
y. Who astsrmisatsd . Eaee 10 Amsei'
=. moe elvilisad than themselves. !
" tells - that hon OActus elen Z,
" 1eeqpite ahade. hon tho shallo,
I'll WAelo ~ 1ons hAnineo - In q
!. aosaiag, noa boaeilsd earth, whs
q | ohalnod lndian dug oee Tor demoai
n humAo taDk.masteE, thego We0t i,
y - havea . ~ 1os vsaeeaace.
O. Cd svse aasWsced . human Pay,
= tpql1 ~ ~ HI wrath. Hego q
oil hleed aleog alde - saxon rival, b
~ toaok . dreamy death.
u saR I'm OLD 1l0oDoM
= - beea rspaiEsd somswhas ~
eothualaeeic rscluse. 4 1exiel
M cd ignesast, bat blgoted.
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Akoe thNlane naeeeial. The Chap
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