The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-07-06
Il HoU LEST, SIR, THOU LIssr IN Thy
THROAT"

We publish in another column a COM
munication to the Oswego (Kansas) Re
publican, dated Dallas, June Goth, and
over the signature of JAMES A. JONES. 1t
would be amusing as a sort OF imitation OF
BARON M~UNCHAUsEN series ofextravaganzas,
or the JULES VERNE and GULLIvER's travels
a~bsurdities, did we not know from ex-
perience that so many of the reople he
thus talks to are q little more credulous of
such stories than was the king OF
Siam about facts. If this Mr.. JONES were
personally present We should take great
pleasure in stating to him what in his alb.
sence we cannot exactly do through this
column. We will, therefore, limit our
selves here by more politely remarking
Sir, in your aforesaid communication
you have been guilty Of some of the
most baresfaced falsehoods it is possible for
Imagination to conceive or NORWOOD fin
ger-tips to sketch. Yet, in the fury of the
passion which distorted your vision and
aimed your poisoned shaft you have been
prudently awake to the immense advaD-
toge ofdistance, for you have taken great
care to be several parallels oflatitude away
from the places you have villiiied and the
people you have slandered. You may have
willingly credulons readers to believe the
silly stuffthat freely flows from the secret
seclusion of your closet in your significant
zeal 10 defend a race with whom your
connection would be at best a disgrace, and
who solely through iuckless a~ssocia.
tion with those Of your breed have
met with woes un%numbered in the past.
You write as dogmatically as though you,
Mr.. JONES, were as much in possession Of
facts as Z~ESoPHoY, CESAR and THUcY-
DlDEs by having yourself, like them, been
upon the battle ground itself, but yet every
sentence Of your letter invites the belief
that you were rather as CAL1cUA, or as
NERO, safely on your own house-top fd-
ding while your Rome was burning.
Every phrase of your document glistens
with an exaggeration or an absurdity that
prompts the thought that you were labor
ing either with a diseased brain or the pur-
chased pen Of a corrupt heart. it so hap
pens that at the very time in which you
pretend TO have written from Dallas, our
happy colored citizens were gaily parading
these streets celebrating Emancipation
with streamers and banners flying
and keeping step to the music OF the Star
spangled Banner and Yankee Doodle;
dressed In their soldier uniforms and OH.
cered by those Of their own color. When
YOU. Mr.. JoNEs, were connecting your in
famous lies about 'the unfortunate negroes
dangling from the limbs Of every Texas
they were s%erenading the Office In
which we now write. orOn their way 10 par
ticipate in q picnic, in apark oftbesuburbs,
furnished free Tor their festivities. BY an
ex.Coniederate soldier. and 10 parteke Of.
bounteous baskets 20 which those who
wore the gray 50 generously contributed.
you now upon this picture and on
b side By side. through ~singulany
fatal coincidence for you, in the columns
Of this same Republican wherein yOu
tate these colored people should leave
This hsu-boie Of abode and the good citizens
KarsHs would welcome and treat them
with respecf"-vs ind this local editorial,
riz "A colored man residing two miles
soufh Of Oszego. on The river, makes o3m-
that yesterday morning a white man
tocross overtbs river, and requested
he coiorsd mans wife 20 bring over the
phich VS. fastened with slock on The
side. She could not DO 20, 20 The
nan commenced 10 FIRE 81 her With his -
rolrsr and emDisd u in his attempts 20
III her Il that the plaoss the palace
" Com.ss lake" - Which y0u would en-
ios ruur c0lorsd brsfhrsu7 ls that the
.--l0r into Mia yOu ryuld invite the ~
-eem fies b. ysur syrsn rucs' o. dc
~ uh1s la11y lounEoE se-Pins near
\. hn-ts 81 OsFeeo's riprlft rTU hear
,s rsr.r 81 fhai rerslrer. nnd think
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