The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1859-07-30

der whose political, or eve,
h',o' 'Sords, will bear investigation
| priVau.cmucl Dale Evans il one Of tho
onuwho sat out Tor Office twenty year.
10. and he has pursued the phan:om
! with madness The one idea is the sncc'
ire of his life. In Texas, he has been /.
standing candidate for twelve year,
During all that time he has been consi.,.
en-, IN but one thing he has been pcr.
/ feet Guyascutas." FOLLOWING Ar
TIE HEELS OF GEN HOUSTON.
The staple of both these genlemen's
recent one hundred speeches has been
their intense love Of the Unon-,b.;,
hatred of Southern ohivary ~ re.ca,
crs -nulliiicrs State Rights Democrats
platform men To abuse Gen. Hcndcr.
son Col Wigfall, aud Judge Mills for
their notification speeches, and their
favoring the Nashville Convention does
the dear Union-loving dcvotces good in
their very souls.
The following extract from the .Iener.
son Herald shows that Judge Reagan
the other dav tore the mask of Of LENS
benevolent, Union-loving face, by pro
ducing letter written by his ODD
jackson tnion-loving Democrat, in 1850
lust at the time when he was in the high
est favor with "Old Sam" Reader, look
at it. pause aud reflect;
Judge Reagan. after showing the DO
sition of Judge Evans in full ON this
point. aud his severe and bitter opposl.
/ ton to Gen Houston, Wigfall and Mills.
he produced aud read to the audience a
letter written to Hon j NJ Clough, then
a member of the Legislature from lIarrj
soa county, written lust before the South
crn Convention at Nashville, in 1850,
while the excitement was so high in re-
card to the sale OF the Santa Fe terrific.
nv and Immediately after Col, Wgiallis
speech at Marshall in which the follow.
ing language was used
will Texas meet her southern sisters
in Convention 2 If So as she should,
will the course pursued by some of them,
of clcctug 10y the Legislature -four dele.
gates and hy the people Of the Congress
sional District four delegates Now il
the Legislature takes upon herself to
send delegates | wish to be retained for
one. | wish 1t strongly nay ! will say
to YOU coufdcntitlly. am ambitious for
the honor In confidence, | say further
that gen. Henderson ON account Of his
position rs well as his superior talents
ought to bc selected II you elect the
whole eight. | would suggest also Col
Wigiall might suggest my preference
for Judge Mills ] see you have adopt
cd resolutions nstrncting our Senators
O. resign their seats IN the event ut the
reception of ~auta fc as a state, OF the
establishment Of territorial government
there Ought not Judge Band io have
made report Of his progress II he
does NOT communicate with you, ought
von not to address him out, and eject a
Judge who will maintain the RICH, of
Texas,
Whether Texas tie sustained OF not,
cvrry son If hers should brave the dire
calamity Of separation, rather than sub
nit go the usurpation of Tyranny
After reading thc letter. Judge Reagan
endured If amy one present could guess
who was the authority; After PAUSE
Of some minutes. hc turned to- Judge
, Evans. aud pointing towards him with
r au emphasis nf Language We could neves
ID roach @lfN ~ Nahum NiOh UNIV
: hayid. Tim at The man ="
This. according to the Herald. caused
the Judges "daud,r to riz." He flew
into a passion, aud said that Reagan
was 20 gcutcmnu--w why or wherefore he
did not say
; Bu, hc did not treat the matter AS Gen
2 Houston did the turkey gohhlcr,, pea
10 cnck, ~" hfhorsc, ~" cuitain calico, "" STA
p TlONERY LETTER to- the Texas con
b. sui, VIM Bryan lie did not say 1t was
a FORGERY Ii took Cen Houston
, seven years to come Ia that point The
consul letter has been published seven
, years. and never before denied THE
, CARRIAGE WAS SOLD IN CALVES.
+ TON
But the truth is, old letters, like old
: records, are marvcllously troublesome
things They rise Ike Banquo's ghost.
For example, GEN. OUSrON AND
JUDGE EVANS ARE TERRIBLY
DOWN ON CONVENTIONS Yet Gen.
HOUSTON has been before a DEMO
I CRATIC aud also KNOW NOTHING
| CONVENTION FOR THE PnESlDEN'
: CY He was at the Washington Con
/. vcntiun which nominated Dickson Jow.
crs. Crosby, Hancock and Evans, and
| he gave them the full weight Of his ID
d tluonec by publishing his celebrated In
/. dependence letter of July, 1898. IN
which he rccklcssly asserted that Gen.
, Cass, one of the old jackson guard,
( had given IN his adhesion to the primer
- pies Of the American party \ letter IN
- which he defended the secrecy OF the
? order and claimed that both Washing
| ton and jackson would have joined tue
, secret Know Nothing, an,i-Cathohe, "n''
German, anti-lrish, anti-coascioncc or"c'
, but for the announcement fact that these
| apostles Of all which opposed proscrP
, tive intolerance had been dead long
time. But Gen HOUSTON HAD BEEN
SPEAKING, AND FEASTlNG, AND
, SMILING, ANDCOQUETTlNG AMONG
7 THE SPIRITUAL RAPPER, MAINE
! LIQUOR LAW, FREE LOVE, -FOUR
RIER, MESMERlC, FREE SOIL, ADO
+ LITiON, STRONG-MlNDED WOMEN,
2 aud AGlTATING VICEGERENTs Of
Almighty God -Bcccher, Phillips TAP
; pan, Garrison preachers-until he had
, the right to constitute himself a Medium
FOR the sacred dead