The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-26
The Attitnda Of Taxaa.

The Attitude Of Texas.
From the Galveston Journal of the 10th inst,
we extract the following editorial which shows
the spirit now animating Texas:
!" BY private letter from Houston, in advance
Of the mail, we learn that Gov. Bell has issued
his proclamation converting the legislature on the
10Th of August A legislature has never met in
Texas under circumstances of such peculiar diff
Guilty and delicacy. The unpleasant relations
now existing between this State and the General
Government, demand the exercise Of great firm
ness and energy by the legislature of Texas.
While the people of Texas expect OF the legisa-
ture jealous support of their territorial rights,
policy as well as patriotism teaches that the ac-
ton Of that body should be tempered with mod,
Grafton and prudence. Improper and incorporate
manifestations of zeal, however well intended,
can be Of no utility in this emergency, and will
only prejudice the cause of Texas with the right
of thinking, calm judging men of the United
States The cause of Texas is strong, because
her rights are founded in justice, and secured to
her by the binding obligations of solemn treaty.
II needs no appeal to the passions or prejudices
of the political parties of the United States to
strengthen it. In this controversy, Texas can
occupy far higher ground than any OF a merely
sectional or partzan character. The doctrine of
the sovereignty of the States, in all matters not
specially reserved by the Constitution of the
United States, is universally admitted by all par
ties. And but few are so insane as to wish the
General Government to dishonor itself by break
ing its plighted faith with one of its own mem
bers As we said before, the cause of Texas is
strong, not only in the affections of her people,
but strong in having the advantage ground of
truth and justice. Let her then appeal to the
calm and dispassonate judgment of impartial
public opinion, and have no fear for the result
We would suggest the proprety of holding pub
hiatt ha
hands Of the Governor and of the legislature,
may be strengthened in this alarming crisis. II
MAY be necessary for the legislature TO take such
osibfy as spiH not be palaabie 10 VeYy fn,id men.
BY all then let there be full and frank ex-
preston of public opinion, so that there may be
no excuse for neglect of duty. Texas has now
an opportunity of teaching valuable lesson to
those who would assa her rights. While we
feel assured that the Legislature will not yield an
iOta to the unjust demands of our enemies, we
trust that its deliberations will be characterized by
harmony and dignity. The enemies Of Texas
may thus learn that she is not to be driven from
the defence of her rights by threats of formidable
opposition, and although smarting under the in
fiction ofgratuitous insult and undeserved injury,a
sense Of propriety restraints any improper express
sion Of passion within her halls of deliberation.
Texas will not crafty her foes by voluntarily
placing herself in the wrong"
giving his impressions of the people of that city,
which of course includes the ladies'. He says -
Boston ladies are not so remarkable for beauty,
as for accomplishments; do the graces of their
persons often outshadow the attractions of their
mind. All those minor arts for the cultivation of
natural grace, which are assiduously cultivated
by New Workers., are entirely discarded by Bos-
tonans. They talk better than they smile; they
ride better than they dance, and they walk better
than they waltz. French coneurs and modisies
are not receivable, and will not make polka part
ners, even at the most retired of watering-places
The Boston lady is not mucn upon the public
she may venture into Washington
street, but it is only for her shopping, and her
luxury Of display viii be in ride to 'Roxbury, or
pretty .straw" at the church.
The Boston lady talks always like connoisseur
about paintings and though her opinions about
the new Atheneum gallery are modulated some
what by the names and regulations of the owners,
they are nevertheless, curt, recherche, and deci-
sive She is not given to any of the prettiness of
Puseyism, reckoning them among such vanities
as small waists and gaiter boots; yet she is an
admirer Of holy families, of which
she finds full supply in the newly opened stock
She is much more tenacious of head dress than Of
and though not especially coy in the
matter of ankles, she studies very little the crau
sure a SON pied. h
The Boston lady is Intellectual; and with all
her ruddiness Of cheek, and robustness of form,
she is not stranger to libraries or to lectures,
and her opinions are far more opt to show the
aplomb Of a woman, than the decacy of a girl.
She is lover of mystics, and good patroness of
Boston genius. She occasionally dabbles herself
in the ink, and here and there touchy, testy let
ter in the Boston Transcript, shows traces of
feminine hand, joined to a masculine judgment.
As her age ripens land even Boston fogs cannot
always preserve freshness) she may turn her
faculties to the elaboration of stately paper for
that stateest of journals, the North American
Review. And there are those, as am informed
on good authority, whose energy and literary per-
severance, are sometimes equal to perusal of that
extraordinary paper.
The Boston lady has friends at Cambridge;
either nephew who is a rising man in the Uni
vesty, or cousin who is making stir in Divin-
ty, or an uncle who is man of vast eruditon,
or an acquaintance, or quasi lover, who is pat
tern Of a scholar, or Pindar of poet. She en-
courages the Opera, more particularly IT the piece
has been applauded in the Cambridge circles, and
echoed by the Transcript. Nothing in her view
could be more exquisite than the performance on
the night of the late high prices Commentator
was general; and Geographic, finger announce
ments Of the price OF seats, ran around the house
as so many proofs of the genial and characteris-
tic appreciation. The Boston lady does not affect
French; or, rather, she reckons it a school-day
with which she does not often
sully her lip in society. The English lady is her
pattern of breeding, she sher sampler ofgrace.
Her ideas of free dressing never go beyond Sir
Peter Lely, and would stop far short of his volup-
tuous beauties, were they not hallowed by her re-
or her reading of Hampton Court.
The lusts Of the eye, and the pride Of life, not
so much among her sins, as the suficiency Of the
Pharisee. She is no poor Publican, butby Heav-
en- IS bounty Bostonian. Her religion is intel
lectual to fault, and her Christian ingenuity
els in theologic conceits. Between Messrs. Par
ket and Emerson, a divinity radiates from every
corner Of Boston I; mystic intellectsm pervades
heir fog of belief, from which occasional scin-
tiIatIon of genius breaks out, as signal for
shout, and as a new g star in the East
SHOCKING AFFAR-The Warrenton (Va.)
Flag of Saturday last has the following:
Grayson hung bya mob al Cnlpeper Court
House We learn that the negro who murdered
Miller was hung on Wednesday at o'clock p.
NJ. by mob of about 200; [other reports say
TOO I Grayson had been twice granted q new