The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-08

ests injured in any way by their predomi'
uance. There arc oaIy about 100000 col,
ored persons in the entire south, and f all of
them, an unreasonable fear, or suppo3i.ion,
were to come to Texas, thy would be swal-
lowed up in It's vastness and their presence
scarcely felt, so faras any detrimental effects
are concerned. Furthermore, AS we before
intimated tho negro is progressing lie has
begun to realize what his interests are, where
they lie, and who are his best friends, and
would not it he could, and could not if he
would, do any harm in any sense, political
or social, to the south. The Telegram sgain
says, to offer to bring negroes to Texas, that
1T is an imposition practiced on our
people that should not be countenanced. It
is u contempt, through bigotry, braced BY
specializing scheme for the practice of Il
deception upon the colored race, AS WIS
doro when they were induced to pour into
Kansas" Wherein is there any deception
attempted to be pra1ticed upon our people?
The people Of Texas in the main have been
raised upwith these people, they have owned
them in the days Of slavery, know their char
acteristics, appreciate them, and in bis place
IN life as a man struggling to elevate and al
vance himself can respect the colored man
Gud offer him a helping hand, md hence
such talk is the supreme of folly. And
again, why is it "A specializing scheme where
j. there any analogy between the efforts on
the past of colorad men to induce their race
to seek homes in Texas, an the political
scheme to people Kansas and Indiana with
colored people for tho sake Of their votes?
Here in Texas we have climate such as
they have always known, and soil such as
they are familiar with, and tho products of
which they know all about, to offer them.
And the people they are invited to come
amongst have the characteristics and the
habits Of the people they have been raised
with. They are not sought after for their
votes, their political strength but new
homes at small costs are offered them in
now, developing, progressing country, with
which they can grow up and advance and in
crease IN wealth as it grows up and advances
and increases in wealth. 1t is the shecccst
nonsense for tho Telegram to say that the
people OF the frontier will object 70 thor
settling in their midst. They are the very
people who want labor and want tho wilder
ncsses and broad praireS bout them brought
into state of cultivation, and they are not
going to object who does it; who raises corn
and cotton aud makes their towns to grow
and advance the frontier line beyond and
away from them, and gives
them increased representation in the
legislature and in congress, and puts money
IN their county treasures and helps them TO
bear the burthens ofetato taxation, and puts
money into the fund for building up and
free schools. What Texas wants
& inhabitants and development, and it is too
ate in the day for bigotry to say that we
don't want this people to till the soil of
Texas, to make cotton grow, to pick out the
cotton when it is open, to build railroads, to
work in the harvest fields and to help make
Texas what she ought to be, and what
nature intended she should be. The Tele-
gram wants to take new departure and
bring itself up apoce with the times and keep
in harmony with the ago.