The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-14
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NAN. Nj Norton, of Dallas, Texas,
TeA What n Solid south Means.

wabash, lInd.) Plain Dealer,
LMtFridsy afternoon Judge A. B. Norton,
Of Dallas, Texas, addressed large crowd of
our citizens on the political issues Of the
dsy. He devoted his tins to a relation
of econdition of affairs in the South, with
which he is thoroughly conversant having
been Adjutant General ofthe State of Texas;
and Judge of the Fifth Judicial district OF
that commonwealth. II was a speech that
made every honest mans blood boil with in
dignation and rage over the wrongs, outrages
and murders perpetrsted on Union men by
the unrepentant rebels of the South. de
said "They allow no freedom of sentiment
in the South that is not Democratic. They
have made Che term csrpet.bagger most
obnoxious one, yet here in Indiana, not two
out of ten Of the older men but have moved in
from other states, yet woe unto you If you are
Republican and move into any State of the
South. speak OF what | know and l shall
prove every statement. | was the Adjutant
General OF Governor Sam Houston when he
refused to 90 with the men who attempted to
destroy the Union, and published then the
ONLY Union paper in Central and Southern
Texas, anG they called meeting to devise
means to dispose of me and posted public
bills for that purpose. Later they called ca
me to resign my seat in the Legislature be-
cause WAS a Union man. This was just as
the war was commencing and they said that
a lady's cambric handkerchief would stop all
the blood that would be shed in the war.
Texas since the war has been u land ofrapine
and blooSshed which the authorities have
been poweress to control. Now it is claimed
that Hancock is great statesman because
If his famous order No. 10, and l want to
tell YOU little about that oder. Assoon as
Hancock issued il there was no law or order
in Texas. He turned Union men and all over
To the State authorities, Notwithstanding
Compress said there was no lawful gov
eminent there. After Hancock's order, mobs
with bowie knives and shot guns drove ali
before them. They blew up my office and
fred into my house, two bullets going
through my wife's dress. They shot down
Union men in cold blood. Three hundred
and fifty Ku Klux came to take me and hang
me, and emboldened by Hsndcock's Order
No. 40 they published a paper called the
Ultra Ku Klux and here is a copy Of it
Holding mp paper and reading from it,.
The editor Of tina! paper came with 800 cut
throats to kill me and fred into my house
They burned Union mems houses and shot
them to death; cut off their heads and hung
them on the public highway for their wives
and children to look at. They passed public
resolutions to kill all Union men. We asked
Hancock for protection, but in vain. My
neighbors were daily shot down in cold blood
BY these fiendlsh Ku.Klux Democrats, and
Hsncock's Order No. 40 allowed them to do
il. You men of the North little know what
this coming election means to our homes and
lives. Yet men get up here and ssy.that all
is peace and harmony. was Judge OF the
Fifth district under Hancocks Order No. 40,
and armed men tried to kill me on the high
way. While that order was in force MUIR
derers were openly trying to kill every Judge
in the State, Despersdoes overrun the
whole country, and Hsncock's order turned
Judges and all over to their tender mercie'.
have Travelled the rugged road and know
it BY experience. Order No 40 left us to be
murdered without protection. My DemS-
cratic friends this is the truth. want you
to think over it. Remember that the records
of Texas show that under HancocEs order
No. 40, $50 Union men were murdered IN
few weeks. and that alone should cover his
name with infamy and his memory with ex-
ecration. Listen to the wall of the slaugh'
tered Union men of Texas, and this they
call ststesmanship. As l speak memories
of my murdered neighbors throng upon ne.
think of neighbors upon trees SO
thick that the Brownsville Herald, the lead
ing Democratic psper said "rhe trees bore
human fruit, and all hated Union mel." In
one county they hung forty Union men and
boosted of it, and no one dared o take the bod
les down, but they were left to rot in tho sun
and rain, because they we're Union men. We
of the South look to you with fear and trem'
bling. What shall we expect! You have
the same old toe in front as during the war,
they have only changed their leader, and
you must vote IS you shot, SO that the Union
Gag will give protection to ALL so that no
Rebel Brigsdiers will modest or make them
afraid"