The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-02

May bc %
1.-THE Dallas HERALD thinks Governor
Davis in the Cabinet would not be very dis
tasteful to his biltcrest political opponents
anywhere. '-[Galveston News
To the Editor of the Herald;
| clip the above from the Galveston
News of the Both of November
do not know or very much care whether
yon ever said that or not Ifyou did, of
course you meant it in the sense of choice
between the devil and his imps, To say it,
any Texas editor must have forgotten q
great part Of our past anguish under the
rule of Davis and his-infamous brigand
police. lie must have forgotten the brutal
murders committed by Davis police in
this State and in this section of the State
He must have forgotten the
raid made on Hill county
by Davis Acknowledgement, Davidson (the
same scOunCrel who ran oil with forty thou
sand dollars Of the peoples money! de
clared martial law and stole from an honest
old farmer, Gothings by name, more than
three thousand dollars. He must have for
gotten how Davis declared martial law in
Walker county, and tried free-born citizens
by a military drum-head court-martial of
his own appointment, and had them con-
signed to the dungeons of the penitentiary,
IN violation of the hottest principles OF the
Constitution of the United States.
He must have forgotten the canvass made
by Davis over this section and in this town
of Dallas, in the fall of 1871, when he threat
encd to arrest any man, and especially
James *. p. Record, who should
dare reply to him. and the
farther fact that he appointed
the Mayor and Aldermen of this town. and
that when Henry :. Ervay, the Mayor of
his own appointment, refused to obey his
behests and prosecute his own people, he
sought to turn him out and appoint q new
man in his place, and when Ervay, repre-
senting the majesty OF the people, refused
to surrender, he was ordered to Jail by one
of Davis appointed Judges. And to Jail he
went and stayed until DAVIS own Supreme
Court decided that he had no such power
of removal
These things can never, no never, be for
gotten by the honest people who then
lived in the town and county of Dallas.
Their remembrance is burned in their fore
heads forever. Yet they are Christian
and iorgiving people. They never thought
that Davis stole anything only that he
was soured political fanatic, as
John Brown was a fanatic
honest in the belief that
It was right and heaven approved to cru
city every body that didn't believe that
Niger was a more elegant, refined and di-
vine Illustration of Gods majesty then any
man of fair skin, blue eyes and 'light hair.
Old John Brown believed that, from read
ing in his youth tWO-cent tracts and looking
at 0ne-eent pictures published by society
of Christian old maids in Boston, mad at
all of their own race because nobody ever
asked them to marry and become
mat hnt.- hAl, nnl 4 IL. 4.
persuaded themselves to believe that Adam,
Eve, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, even down to David, the
seed of jesse, were full-nedged darkies.
All these things we remember, and will
ever remember of Edmund j, Davis. But
other things we also remember, among
them that Davis has never sneakcd off to
the North during q Presidential canvass, to
vllIiiv and lie about us. He has never
stopped that far down into the cesspools Of
mcanncsa and filth. He fought us during
the war as soldier and after the war, for
q season prosecuted MS, in n manner as an
honest, John Brown fanatic would deem
meet and proper somewhat on the Guitcau
siyle-but he has never descended to the
meanand cowardly depths going North in
periods OF political excitement, to rcyile,
mallgr and lie upon uS-to make our North
crn counirymon believe We were Still in re-
hellion against the general Government.
Davis, fanatic, but honest, has remembered
the poop e who took him up an orphan boy
made him District-Attorney, and
District Judge. While mad
alicr the war and clothed
with power, he held an iron rod over
us. But lac has sternly refused to go North
in Presidential elections, among strangers
20 to speak, to bcfoul his own nest Willing
- strike at home, among his own people,
he has scorned to sneak away, while eating
the bread ofour people, to revie and SLAM
der them. So, looking over the whole field
as things are, il the Dallas HERALD did say
what the Galveston News says it did, am
not prepared to say nay.
Give us Il brave, even fanatcal opponent
ut this time, before sneak, who stabs us
allr, and in the dark. OH SAN.