The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-05-20

1
u d amusing 10 note how comp,ctol,
Dawes, Of Massachusetts,. prosfrnfe.
himself when he fired on hIs double
barre ed-back action outrage case A. ,
broadside AZ ainst Lamar and Missiexipn
and the South generally. on the IA,
most appropriate % such cock and hui
stories 1.-The LIST Of APRIL
Taken all in an. Dawes a not 4 b,d
sort 81 man. and occasionally has been
known e rise 70 the plane Of real
craftsmanship, but IN the Heath matter
ne not only INDUCED in remark able
amount Of jnveracity. but wrote him
self down egrcgionsly an ass. There Il
no escape for him The CDnqrc >sionai
Aecorf pins him like bug TO the wall.
Only the day before Yesterday y
roared Dawes when he first brought
his Giasticutus'' 10 the attention 81 Al
awc-stricken Senate, ssthere passed
through this CITY on his way 10 the
North, IN which he could enjoy his own
convictions, venerable gray headed
man who, thirteen wears ago. took his
capital. took his wife and his children.
MS energy, his hope and his future 10
the State Of Mississippi to build ND 4
nome; and then he went on-Dawes.
we mean, not the "Giast 'cutas''-to
show how he was harricd and worried
and shot Al. until he was Obliged TO put
iron shutters 10 all OF his windows. n
order TO protect himself from hordes OF
midnight assassins. 4 His factories
were all burned. his employees All muir
dered. while he was simply standing
sternly by the faith OF his fathers.
burn 81 the stake
And when Senator George asked him
the name Of this gray-haired hero and
victim, Dawes responded: II saw to
the Senator that ! can give names. but
DO not intend 10 furnish any opportuni-
~ for further persecution and destrlc-
ton Of property. The old way Of meet
ing this thing is to call for names.''
But the deep-dyed and bloody-mind-
ca traitors Of the Senate still called for
names, and finally Dawes, after dodp-
ing enough to fairly entitle him to his
sobriquet Of "The Dodgcr," gave the |
name of one man, Mr.. Heath. not or |
nor yet of Louisiana. but IL |
Massachusetts.
Mr.. Dawes, having prospected the !
nine. the newspaper reporters have \
worked It down to the hardest kind Of I
lard-pan.
In the first place. as we remarked the
'ther day, the Mississippi refugee had /
lever lived in Mississippi for dav. I
instead Of being "a gray-haired vete-
an with hopes all blasted, according
. one q Dawes own party papers ne
"a line, hearty, strong man. with
ron-gray hair. coal black eyebrows.
nd apparently good for score Of
Black-haired or gray-haired. Dawes
ad not seen him on his melancholy
vay home, but q man BY the name 81
'owman had. and all Dawes knew about
i'm Bowman told him.
II don't see, for the life Of me N
MD Heath 10 Boston Journal report
r last week. where Mr.. Dawes cot
be iron-shutter story. and that | had
IT three hundred men behind me To
'ok for living elsewhere. didn't ,
~ 20 70 hin. because l never saw
i'm"
The only one Of Heath's employees
no died on his hands was d man :
AIMED Mines, whom he took TO Louis !
m with him. and Mrs. Mines now !
cps forward TO say that Heath buried =
M shahbily. refused 10 pay her the
oney coming TO him when he died. !
ID failed even to give her back his !
oils.
The only negro who lost his life was !,
ot nearly twelve years ago. The fac :
ry which was burned was 4 cotton y
n, insured for nearly 81. 900 and found !
be worth but 1880. =
His wife and children he never took y
Louisiana. nor does he claim 10 have J,
led there. II live in Malden,n 50 he n
d the reporter. He admits that he n
d no evidence that his place was Il
ed BY an incendiary. except the = !,
reat Of one man. i,
In short, there is hardly d solitary A
ltemcnt made BY Dawes concerning =
victim that his victim does not r
and Is untrue. /,
The only outrages that have bee n :,
have been upon Dawes by NJ
wman. and on the Senate by Dawes. Y,
he were man Of spirit he would II
re shotgun and scatter Bowman ~
The four winds. and then, after i'm n
soning himself and Heath in some - -
Massachusetts factory. would n.
fire 70 the pile and die to slow 81 II
Isle. lie has done the outrage bust
. 70 death. He has written himself
vn IN ass. - Washington Post.