The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Another Invasion OF the Indian Ter
ritory Philosophy OF Indian Hos
tiiity 20 the scheme Wrecks
OF RaceH-Etc., Etc.
Correspondence of The Herald.

WAsmsoToN. March o, 1880.
Gustaye A. Hanson, of Tennessee, and his
associates are here, asking Congress TO grsnt
them the privilege of buildings railway west
from Little Rock and Fort Smith, along the
rich valley Of tho Arkansas TO Arkansas
City on tho &C fines of the State of Texas
The red men can have no peace. They prop
orly abhor, but for reasons they never Define
locomotives and steamboats,. Indians confess
that more contact with civilization is fatal.
They have the facts of nearly three centuries
before them, all telling tho same painful
story, and there isno such striking symbol OF
aggressive civilized life ms railway. Tho
Indian knows not why, or perhaps he never
CURED for the reason. He only recognizes
u fact that contact with civilization digs
mis- grave even as the world begins to be-
lieve that contact with freedom and the
white race is fatal to the black. Tho princi-
pal of Survival Of the ittcst" Is involved and
the red man and African bond reverently in
the shadow of philosophy which digs their
graves when carving the history Of the
worlds progress through hills and writing it
in letters OF iron on the plains of the West
Like the Chinaman, the red and tho black
man must 70. Gregarious tendencies of the
black race, which gathers its multitudes in
cities and towns or on the low
lands OF the Mississippi, only show
how resistless are processes Of competition,
how the blacks are driven TO combination
ap hou thaxv kac
American energy and progress. The Indi-
ans only obey instincts of self-preservation
whom they would repel Mr.. Hanson and his
exc lent associates, who would bridge plains
and forests and annihilate distance and Gre
ate and enrich a splendid empire.
TEXANS IN WASHINGTON.
I was dreaming of the time coming, and it
- not far remote, when there will be but one
race on the continent, and that an a9mxture
of English, French, German and Irish peo-
pies, and when the nations will speak one
tongue, the hybred English, and of the time,
not distant when two or three confedera-
tions of republics will govern the globe. /
was indulging visions of this character, when
l encountered Mesrrs. Terrell, Coopwood and
Templeton, Texas lawyers, at this great dis
lance from home, to discuss some
knotty question before the Supreme
court of the United States. The dream
1 was dreaming continued its
course. The philosophy of the survival of
the fittest being applied, 1 was about to
conclude that the venerable Judge Coop.
wood would live forever, when he arrested
my musings by stating that the last of fifty
camels on his ranch near Austin had been
sold, and that he was negotiating for sup
ply in Tripoli and at Mecca, and therefore
his presence in Washington. He will i'm
port ostriches from Arabia as we'll as Llamas
from Peru. Lawyers are thus discovering
and unfolding sources Of wealth for Texas,
and this extraordinary new departure in the
conduct Of the profession should be specially
lauded by the press.
APOLLO BELvIDERE LOCKWOOD,
Commonly called "Belva Dear for short is
yirtuously indignant because her client de-
sired her authority to institute proceedings
against Senator Ben Hill. Your cores
pendent is no saint and has filed no petition
in Rome or elsewhere for an apotheosis but
having been born on lot next to that on
which Ben Hill fist saw the light, and having
known him these forty years he is prepared to
affirm that the probabilities are ali against
thc vi 1tiio. lJOChNOOu
ant. But Hill is man of good morals and
better taste, and nobody has seen the unfor-
tunate woman, who was made plaintiff versus
Ben Hill by the eloquent and facile Mrs.
Lockwood, that does not confess the improb-
ability of the truthfullness of statements
designed to compel the Senator TO pay for
the maintainance of fatherless child. But
Mrs. Lockwood is practical, sensible, hon
est woman. She will confess before many
Gays that she has wronged the Senator.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
This reminds me that when the story about
the ghastly crime Of Senator Morgan's SON
was told, telegraphed the HERALD to
withhold an expression of opinion. | could
not give credence to moral impossibilities.
Morgan's accusers asserted too much. If
they had stopped with half the ISLANDERS they
bruited abroad the public might have ao-
cepted them as facts; but when
II was stated that young Morgan
sought to deprive woman he had ruined of
bread and of home, the stock of popular
credulity was exhausted and the indictment
was quashed. Now, II seems the unhappy
girl who accused Morgan Of Vulnerable. vices
not long ago sought to levy blackmail upon
Mr.. Shelly, the representative Of the Selma,
Alabana, district. This gentleman Is q
brother Of the famous Austin lawyer. There
Is danger that the opinion will obtain that
unscr,lpulons women of the CAPITAL have