"Untitled," Telegraph and Texas Register, June 23, 1838

Summary: Mocked abolitionist attacks against Texas by printing an article describing an incident where a white woman stabbed a black man in a black neighborhood in Texas. Tried to show how trouble only happened in black settlements.

At the negro settlement near Galipolis, commonly called Texas, on the last Sunday in April, a negro man was stabbed to the heart by a white woman, who has a pretended husband in the settlement, The man expired immediately--the woman is in jail.

[Journal & Register.

We have often been at a loss to determine what particular portion of America was designated by the abolitionists when they have styled Texas "a great valley of rascals," "the republic of refugees from justice," &c. &c. as it is obvious to every unprejudiced mind that these terms will not in any manner apply to this country. The above article however explains all. These wiseacres have evidently confounded the aforesaid negro settlement near Galipolis with a republic of moral and enlightened freemen.

Source Copy Consulted: "Untitled," Telegraph and Texas Register, June 23, 1838, p. 3