American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21

1t is amusing to note how completely
Dawes, of Massachusetts, FRUSTRATED
himself when he fired off his double
rreled- back action outrage case as Il
broadside az ainst Lamar and Mississippi
and the South generally, on the day
most appropriate to such cock-and- bull
stories-the lst of April.
Taken all in all. Dawes is not bad
sort of man. and occasionally has been
known to rise to the plane of real
craftsmanship. but in the Heath matter
he not only INDUCED in a remarkable
amount of inveracity, but wrote him
no escape for him. The Congressional
Record pins him like bug to the wall.
"Only the day before yesterday"
roared Dawes. when he first brought
his " Giasticutus" to the attention of an
awe-stricken Senate, there passed
through this city on his way to the
North, in which he could enjoy his own
convictions, venerable grayheaded
man who, thirteen years ago, took his
capital, took his wife and his children,
his energy, his hope and his future to
the State of Mississippi to build mp a
home;" and then he went on-Dawes,
we mean, not tho Giasticutas" to
show how he was harried and worried
and shot at, until he was obliged to put
iron shutters to all of his windows, in
order to protect himself from hordes of
midnight assassins. His factories
were all burned, his employees all muir
dered, while he was simply standing
sternly by the faith of his fathers,
which, sooner than give up, he would
burn at the stake.''
And when Senator George asked him
the name of this gray-haired hero and
victim, Dawes responded: 81 say to
do not intend to furnish any oppOrtuni-
ty for further persecution ami destruc-
ton of property. The old way of meet
ing this thing is to call for names"
But the deep-dyed and bloody-mind-
ed traitors of the Senate still called for
names, and finally Dawes, after dodg-
ing enough to fairly entitle him to his
sobriquet of '.The Dodger," gave the
name of one man, a Mr.. Heath, not of
Mississippi, nor yet of Louisiana, but of
Maiden, Massachusetts.
Mr.. Dawes, having prospected the
mine, the newspaper reporters have
worked it down to the hardest kind of
hard pan.
In the first place, as we remarked the
other day. the Mississippi refugee had
never lived in Mississippi for day.
Instead of being "a gray-haired vete-
ran with hopes all blasted, according
to one of Dawes own party papers he
is "a fine, hearty, strong man, with
iron gray hair, coal black eyebrows,
and apparently good for a score of
years"
Black-haired OF gray-haired, Dawes
had not seen him on his melancholy
hrrf nv hn IF
Bowman had, and all Dawes knew about
him Bowman told him.
Il don't see, for the life of me-"
said Heath to Boston Journal report
err last week, "where Mr.. Dawes got
the iron shutter story, and that had
left three hundred men behind me to
look for living elsewhere. l didn't
say so to him; because l never saw
him."
The only one of Heath's employees
who died on his hands was a man
named Mines, whom he took to Louis
lana with him, and Mrs. Mines now
steps forward to say that Heath buried
him shahb:ly, refused to pay her the
coming to him when he died,
and failed even to give her back his
tools.
The only negro who lost his life was
shot nearly twelve years ago. The fac
tory which was burned was cotton
gin. insured for nearly S., 900 and found
to be worth but 81. 5OO.
His wife and children he never took
to Louisiana. nor does he claim to have
lived there. Il live in Maiden" SO he
told the reporter. He admits that he
had no evidence that his place was
fired by an incendiary. except the
threat of one man.
In short, there is hardly solitary
statement made by Dawes concerning
his victim that his victim does not
brand as untrue.
The only outrages that have been
have been upon Dawes by
Bowman, and on the Senate by Dawes.
If he were man of spirit he would
seize shotgun and scatter Bowman
to the four winds, and then, after i'm
prisoning himself and Heath in some
Massachusetts factory. would
set fire to the pile and die to slow
music. He has done the outrage bust
ness to death. He has written hirSself
down an Washington E0st.