Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1881-05-19


Dawes Is not such an utter donkey
as be seems TO Be. He knew what he
was about when he declined 10 give the
name Of the person Hifo hnsi informed
him Of the persecution Of Sonihern Re
publicans for Republicanism' sake
/ IL would really have been better for
Dawes to let this terrible story Of the
burning Of factories and the {" muir
der Of " employees" in Mississippi 60
after he had once told u. without en-
/ dravorinu 10 hitch u on the tale of
Heath in Louisiana In that case Il is
true that every bodf would have sup
posed that Dawes inverted tho whole
story for temporary use in he senste
/ debate But hat supposition would
have been considerably less discrediia-
bio 20 Dawes intellect and not lcss
crcdltablc to Davses' morality than the
truth as it is now coming out with the as
sistance ofthe clue unwisely furnished hy
Dawes himself when Dawes, frightened
By the exposure in Boston. transferred
the venue Of his outrage from Mississippi
In IoIiis;anA- and 0ssve nm Heath as his
informant. Senator Jonas promptly
telegraphed 70 the Judge OF the District
in which the plantation Of this victim Of
an unreconstructed community WIS
situated to learn the facts II the case.
These facts have been made public. snd
everybody who reads the report Of them
and compares them with the tale told by
Dawes IN the Senate viii see that
Dawes exaggeration, garbling and
absolute fiction amounted in the gen
eral result to sheer invention. or. as
Horace Greeley would have said. TO "a
naked lie" II Dawes had been COM
posing proiessed fiction. and anybody
kad prodtccd these facts as the basis Of
his romance. il wotild have been uni
versally conceded that the facts did not
in the least affect the validity II
Dawes claim rs an inventor. The
plantation" with all Its factories"
and the 800 or 100 mcn with their
families Of Dawes romance cofrs
down to farm Of $50 acres, which.
with all the buildings upon il. was as
sessed at $500. although Dawes
victim OF intolerance had contriyed 10
get IL rnorfgHged TO the extent of some
Thing over Sii ZOO. Nobody had been
murdered. A mill had fr fact been
burnt, but the belief of The neighbors
Of the cwner and uortgagOr is that he
SET it on fire himself in order 20 collect
the insurance which he had succeeded
in eaeciing for more than its market
value. 1he insurance was $4,000.
The appraisers estimate Of the value
of the mill was I.400. So general
was this belief that the Grand
Jury WAS only restrained by
lack Of positive evidence from indicting
the victim OF Dawes outrage for
arson Tho Judge Of the Court was OF
the opinion that the evidences would
have justified an indictment. and il is
expected fha. an indictment will be
found at the next session of the Grand
Jury. What Dawes viii do under the
exposure remains to be seen 1t is Of
more importance TO know whss the
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fbe sncendihry intU \ martyr TO the
principles OF the Bepuhsics= party,
and Of baslng on these fabrications an
abusive indictment of an American
State. there is no more 20 be said about
them But Dawes reputation in the
Senate and In the country is estab-
iished. No statement pretending TO
be a statement OF fact and supported
only by the tetimony of Dawes will
henceiorth have the least weight upon
the opinion Of that body or upon public
opinion.-M y World.