The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-01

care TO be several parallels oflatitude away
from the places you have villified and the
people you have slandered. You may have
willingly credulous readers to believe the
silly stuff that freely flows from the secret
secusion Of your closet in your significant
zeal to defend race with whom your
connection would be at best disgrace, and
who solely through luckless associa-
ton with those of your breed have
met with woes unnumbered in the past.
You write as dogmatically as though you,
Mr.. JONES, were as much in possession Of
facts as ZENoPHoH, CESAR and THucr-
DIDEs 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 CALIGUA, or as
NERO, safely on your own house-top tid-
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 diseased brain or the pur-
chased pen of corrupt heart. 1t 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
Day 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 Off
ccred 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
tree" they were serenadng the office in
which we now write, or on their way to par
ticipate in u picnic, in park of the suburbs,
furnished free Tor their festivities, by an
ex.Coniederate soldier, and to partake Of
bounteous baskets to which those who
wore the gray so generously contributed.
Look you now upon this picture and on
that. Side by side, through singularly
of this same Republican wherein you
state "these colored people should leave
this hell.hole Of abode and the good citizens
of Kansas would welcome and treat them
with respective find this local editorial,
viz: "A oolored man residing two miles
south of Oswego, fpthe river, makes COM
plant that yesterday morning white man
wished to cross ovorthe river, and requested
the oolored mans wife to bring over the
| boat, which was fastened with lock on the
other side. She could not do so, so the
man commenced to fire at her with his re-
volver and emptiod ii in his attempts to
kill her." Is that the place, "rhe palace
by Como's lake." to which you would en-
tice your colored brethren Is that the
parlor into which you would invite the in
noccnt flies by your syren voice? Or did
you while lazily lounging sleeping near
the banks OF Oswego's ripping river, hear
the report of that revolver, and think
ing you were here in Texas,
"dream dreams that no mortal ever
dreamed before?' One assertion of yours
we arc quite prepared to believe, and that
is that you were shot at six timos.' This
is not an object of wonder, Mr.. JONES, con-
sidering the manner of man you appear to
be from your letter. The wonder is that
you were permitted to live at all in this
Happy land of Canaan" and it can only
be solved by conceiving that your six-footer
strides were swifter than the six-shooter
shots that followed perhaps some citizens
mustang that was running away with you,
poor animal across the border. Come and
see us, Mr., JONES, we have heard of you
before in another part Of this state.
You may "catch on" to some other sensa-
tional item for another article If you pre-
fer red letter." you can write 1t with the
blood of "some of the dead slain negroes
left on the streets of Dallas to rot" or if
you prefer BLACK letter" the pincries of
east Texas furnish sticky material denom-
mated tar" used in several applications.