The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-07
TERRORISM In TEXAS.
How a Northern Man and Indiana
Farmer Was Treated BY the Ma
tiVes Of Fayette County.

Whenever Texas is mentioned as a desira.
bic State for an intending emigrsnt to locate
| in, there is, in the minds of very consider.
able number of even the better read class oil
farmers and others who desire to change
their location, and are casting about for the
best section of country in which to make
their future home, feeling that Texas ia
not safe State in which to settle. They
| are under the impression that their lives
are, to say the least, not as safe there as
| in Ohio, Indiana or Illinois; that the Texan
of to-day is a hard, reckless, tough citizen !"
that he hates Yankees and all Northern men
on general principles, and either treats them
like dogs or lets them so severely alone that
| the new settler is excluded from society and
Stunned by sil-in fact, Ostracissd. The
following lette-, shich explains itself, is COM
mendet to the consideration of those hold
ing such ideas. and in this connection it
may be well 70 remark, incidentally, that
the above heading hardly corresponds with
Mr.. Mills idea Of the country or with his
experience while in the State. Terrorism in
Texas is thing Of the past;
ALBANY, DELAWARE COUNTY, IND,
January 2, 1885.
7. C. Denny, District Passenger Agent Missouri
Pacific Railway, cor. Kentucky avenue and Iii.
nOis street, Indianapolis, Ind:
DEAR SIR-The package Of advertising mat
Ter YOU sent me has been received, Tor which
please accept thanks.
have placed tire most of It where I thought
il would be likely TO do the most good; the
balance ] will distribute among those think
will take lively interest in the matter.
/ lived in Fsgette County, Texas for
ten years. moving there from jay County,
Indiana, but 70 crafty my wife came
back last spring and located here Now,
eng the scarcity Of money and the c0nse-
Quent hard times resulting thersfrom, and
how much more difficult 1t is for farmers
here TO make living, compared with Texas,
sbe b g become thoroughly disgusted with
her alive State, and as never did like IL
for T. rmiDg) We have determined TO 60 back
as soon as we can sell our property which |
ara eteTmined to do il Jssible BY tue ist
OF March. lfnot then Just as soon as it is
sold. will drop YOU line add
'ee what you can then do as to rates. I see
by your circulars that the Nj. p. Railway has
some land in Cook County. | have con-
uded TO locate in that county for the rea-
son that in that locality can raise wheat,
as we'll as cotton, which could not DO as
far south as / was before. On arrival will
take look at the land, and if il suits me,
communicate with the II. 7. Land Commits
sioner at Dallas, Tex.
There are other parties here that would
like TO 20 10 Texas If they could only sell
ont, but there is the difficUlty-times are so
hard. have been trying to eradicate from
the MINDS of the people here the foolish
notion that it is dangerous for Northern
dangerous it is, / will state that
SIN Northern man and was
during the war member OF Thirty-ninth
Regiment Indiana Volunteers aud made no
effort 20 conceal the fact when / went down
there. Yet they elected me to an important
county Office over five competitors, some Of
, them CID citizens when i had not been
among them over five years. and that. toe,
with the full knowledge that / was Re-
publican. / have spoken my sentiments,
both gious and political, as freely there as
ever dio in Indiana, and never had an in
,uit offered me.
/ have travelled all over Kansas looking
for q location. 1 have travelled over Texas,
North, South, East and a portion of the
West, and taking eli things into oansidera-
ton, unhesitatingly say that Texas is the
best country for a poor man to make money
in that ever saw, and ! have travelled over
two-thirds OF the States north OF Mason d
! Dixon's line.
TO every energetic and industrious man,
no matter how poor he is if he goes there to
| make his home with them, can guarantee
| him 8 cordial II eeptiOB, but if he is not in
| dustriOus he had better stay where he is.
| They have no use for him.
Yours respectfully,
ISAIAH MILLS.
Itisunfortunate that the ancient reputation
of Texas as q State, where 'lawlessness and
n fisnism" are the normal conditions OF
society, still cliDgs to her, in the opinion Of SO
many intelligent persons. But these ideas
ere fast being eradicated as the people learn
the advantages offered to settlers in the great
| "Lone STAR State. whose population be-
tween the years 1870 and 1880 increased over
81 per cent. and in the last four years has
increased 100000, making a total present
population of about 2, 275, 900.
by addressing Mr.. Denny as above he VIII
furnish general information, maps, psmph
let's, etc, in regard TO Arkansas and Texas
and Mr.. Mills will be pleased to answer let
ters from farmers aud others who desir'
more information as to his expert ence in thu
| latter State