The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-29
TEXAS EMIGRATION QUESTION.
How that Distinguished Explorer,
MIR. AppIegarth. IL Treated by His
Fellow C0uutrymen.
Fvom an English Newspaper.


gracefully iDsuted not TO say assaulted IA
Stockton on Thursday night. Imbued will
desire to give his fellow townsmen som,
sound advice on Texas, which he has pur
chased at the expense of considerable tim,
and money, he arranged for meeting to b'
held in the Temperance hall, the syllabus O
his lecture comprising mainly review O.
the oppression to which the colored race o
of Texas is subjected, and reference to the
general state of that part of the great
American continent, the special fea
lures of which the great and learned lecturer
has made his especial study. Considerable
instruction was anticipated from the lectures
but owing to the action of few unarpre.
ciative individuals those snticipations, like
the political vaccinations Of the North
ern Echo, were not realized. A Mr.. John
Wilson--a practical and far.seeing towns
man, it is said-was announced to preside,
but some urgent business-maybe political
operated against his attendance, and in conse.
quence, the lecturer had not only to be lee
turer, but chairman as well. Vainly did the
learned traveller wait for chairman to turn
up, and at last, his patience being exhausted
he emerged from the obscurty of the com
mittee.room, and met the gaze Of consid-
cradle assemblage many of whom met to
pay the deepest attention to subject which
affects tho interest of all England, gave him
hearty cheer, whilst few obstructives,
paramount in their noisy power, for noise
always prevails over well intended serious
ness-saluted him with .groans. But the
plucky lecturer, who had braved the six
shooters of DR.. Kingsbury's blood-thirsty
emissaries, was not to be frightened again
into the recesses OF that sanctum from
whence solemn-looking committees emerge,
and mantully stood his ground-or
his platform alike Indifferent to the
groans of dissentients, or the marked
Kisses of individuals who had been
subsidized to suppress the truth by
overwhelming clamor. Mr. Appegartb, after
vainly waiting, as we have stated, Tor chair
man, commenced his DISCOURSE and hardly
had he described tho several heads of his
subject when his silvery voice was inter-
rupted by the vulgar shouts of mob who
thronged the gallery. Pausng in his address,
at time when the better class and thor
oughly appre,iative part Of the audience
located on the ground floor of the hall
we're hanging on his very lips, the veteran
traveller silently bespoke the indulgence of
all; but rowdyism was too rampant, and
comparative silence only WAS accorded him.
Essaying again, he stated the chief features
Of the momentous subject on which he was
announced to speak, and was assailed with
well, WHAT Cheers? Nothing of
the sort; but shower of eggs =
half-hatched eggs, mind you-just ms though
the merchants who hawled them could not
instead have palmed them off on unsuspect-
ing burgesses last market day. Should "
man whose only thought is his country 5
good, be daunted by shower of embryo
chickens! Who will say yes? Certainly not
Mr.. Applegarth, for with commendable
pluck, which evoked the applause of his OPP
penents even, he manfully stood his ground,
and was evidently prepared to defy, not only
embryo chickens, but old hens, had they
been hurled at him. Once more did he COM
mence. "The population of Texas" said he,
'is composed of the blackguards of the
world, the refuse of the ghouls OF the universe,
and the scum of the race-courses OF
Yirrup"-Europe he meant--when per-
feet shower of unsavory eggs and the exa-
crations of the gallery fell upon him, and for
moment Mt least he was nonplussed. But
presence OF mind-we need on instance the
the Texas assassination incident in proof of
our statement--is one of MIR. Applegarth' s
prominent qualities, and consequently he
speedily recovered himself What did it
matter to him that an unsweet egg had
dropped right into the middle of his hat as it
lay on the table, or that the sweat of his
brow was for a moment represented by
yolk of an ancient 'neser," and necesstated
the vigorous use OF u cotton buster? Had
not he the interests of tue country at heart
Echo answers yes. And sturdily did he hold
out, but obs ruction was strong, and finding
that it could not drown the lecturers voice
in its own it took to meaner tactics and
gave the audience pepper-pepper
in tho shape of cayenne, thrown
profusely about the hall. Mr.. Applegarth's
voice, if not drowned before, was indeed
drowned now. The obstructives had sue
ceeded in their base designs. The audience
coughed as one man, lungs strong and weak
being racked as they were never racked be-
fore. But obstructives even are amenable to
the influence of cayenne, and right heartily
did they run down from the gallery MS the
fumes of the pepper rose from the ground
floor. The movement became rout. Some
tlet one way some another, one lot seeking
exit acress the platform and the other by the
main entrance, and in the confusion a most
nefarious attempt was made to strangle the
lecturer. "A poor cat-murdered, MS a sym.
pathetic gentleman said, for the OCCASION
was hurled at Mr.. Applegarth. Too sure
was the blow, for the defunct specimen
Of the feline species wrapped itself round
the lecturers neck, and could only be dis
entangled by means of deyterous and pc
culiar twist on the part of the lecturer. Their
the minion in charge of the hall, over.anx
ous for the safety of his masters property
turned off the gas, and the audience were lef,
to grope their way out in the dark. Some
inquired fora means of exit and some fol
their admission money, end whilst most O.
them slowly found the former, none OF then
found the latter. The crowd next wen
round to the committee room and interviewed
the great Texan traveller, but he was deaf tC
all entreaties either to lecture or refund the
money taken at the door, ant
as the clamor was considerable, Superin
tendent Bell was obliged to enforce his kindl,
mediation. The crowd retired on his solicita
ton to the street, and Mr.. Applegarth to the
NAMED outside, anxious to serenade him, bu
he remained obdurate, and his commanding
vsage was not again seen during the night
Slowly the crowd dispersed, and at last peace
once more remained supreme in the precincts
of the halls of the cold water advocates. i
is believed that in the face of this adverse