The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-18
Per Contra,

PoslTO, BEXAR COUNTY, April II, 1882.
1t is not 4 matter of surprise that the high
est toned papers should sometimes be i'm
posed upon by correspondents and OCCASION
ally publish an article calculated to do great
injustice to people of the highest order Hence
the article which appeared in the San An
tonic Times entitled "Mixed Blood' is re-
garded by the people to whom it refers simply
in the light of a Misrepresentation on the part
Of the correspondent rather than a desire on
the part of the Times to do an injustice TO
worthy class of citizens. Now as to facts that
will bear the strctest scrutiny. The Shields
Community of the Posito country number
about Us souls. Some of them have very
little mixed blood, but some of them arc as
white as the average Of the whiteSt community
in Texas. AS citizens, they are all high
toned and honorable, Woodworking and pros
porous, and their highest ambition is to do as
little harm and all the good they can to all
with whom they associate. Every man among
them is we'll known to the business men gen.
orally of San Antonio and surrounding coun-
try and challenge your correspondent" to
get any honorable man in the county to pub
lish over his signature anything to the con-
trary.
On the other hand, he, whom | believe to
have written the article published in the Times,
| is man who settled some years ago in the
mountains north of san Antonio, and after
| staying there 4 short time found the climate
too hot to brand other peoples calves in, and
hearing that there was a community of niggers
| IN this county can and settled among us,
thinking that he could exchange his intel-
gence for their ignorance and get difference
enough in the exchange to work out fortune.
But like most of the Yankees who came south
To live by their wits alone, he failed for want
of capital He struck the whitest and the
the smartest set of niggers he ever met or
dreamed Of, and found that no sophsty of his
could battle them, no art Of his debauCh them;
and finally, no danger he could point out could
| appall them. They received him as neigh
Dor, not their superior, and rendered him ev-
cry neghborly Kindness until they discovered
his dupllcity; and then they withheld their
patronage from him, Chagrlned to think that
he could not Guido set OF nlggers he under
took all kinds Of ChiCanery to- turn the host Of
| friends of this community against them.
AS 4 community we court no iavors of any
man, or set Of men, that our action as citizens
of great and free commonwealth do not en-
title us to. We are all free-born American
citizens, and we acknowledge no man our
superior unless they are our Supporters in in
tellect and moral virtue, and we owe alleei-
ance TO none save God and our country. Our
grandfather fought in the war of 1916 that gave
birth TO our heritage: and several OF our young
er men fought in the war of the rebellion that
preserved our liberties, and placed an article
on the great magma charta that makes man
"a man for that"
In conclusion we will only aay that while We
feel chagrined over the publication OF such
unjust reflections upon our community, we
only ask that those who are prejudicial against