Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-04-08


TKxAs-Texas Is doubtless the destination Of
The greater portion II not all the troops munitions,
&c. now being hurried to sea, from New York.
The usurpers of her government in suddenly strip
ping her frontier Through the reasonable act Of
Twiggs) Of the three thousand United States
troops necessarily kept there for ten wears past,
have exposed the settlers In two whole tiers Of
frontier counties-covering territory perhaps five
hundred miles long and hundred wide-to the
merciless vengeance Of the Comanchies, Beedies,
Waccoes, Keechies, Towaccanies, Lipans, and
half a dozen other tribes of more warlike and ef-
fective warriors than any others this continent
with none Of whom have the Government yet been
able to establish more than nominal relations OF
amity. Already have these merciless savages
driven in-back upon the lower settlements
nearly all the inhabitants Of these two tiers of
countless population Of at least ten thousand, Of
whom quite three thousand are the best frontiers
men Tin a military point of View in the world.
They are, TO a man, anti-diSunionists; IL but be-
cause secession" has already cost them the loss Of
their homes Of the lives OF many Of their families
of their stock and of their only means of obtaining
dollar. They are the people who have up to
this time received, necessarily, nearly every dollar
Of the Governments annual disbursement of some
three millions Of dollars In Texas for military pur
poses-for the especial protection Of this particular
population.
Sam Houston. who stll protests and proclaims
his rightful authority as Governor Of Texas, has
doubtless demanded of the Government az this
point the protection CT the people of those counties
from the Indians The Government here can law
fully recognize no other State authority in Texas
than his; for that which sets up the preterse Of
having violently depcsed him, is evidently the
boldest usurpation Of miserable minority Of the
people OF Texas, conceivable.
The Convention pretending to have deposed
Houston was unlawfully called The disunion,s,s
elected TO 1t were 50 elected by not third Of the
vote Of the State The sham Of referring It's seces
sion ordinance back to the people, was a fraud
Planned TO prevent fair expression Of the people
upon II; those Of neaSy half the counties in the
State not having been allowed time srsn to knoc
that such question had been nominally referred
to themi while, wherever they could take the
balloi-bOxes in their own hands they stuffed
them, as at Franklin, Uust opposite Ell Paso } full
offraudulent votes for disunion. A gentleman of
high character now in this city, who voted there
against secession, assures that sixty-eight men
only voted there on that occasIon vet the returus
from Franklin represent the disunion vote there
to have been over nine hundred Even with
resort to such frauds as explained above the
returns do not pretend that half the vote of the
third the vote Of the State was cast for the accent
ance OF the secession ordinance
Continuing the exercise Of their usurped An
thority, the self-cOnstituted sovereign" Conyen-
ton undertook to depcse the state government:
which act Houston proclaims null and void,
maintaining that he continues to be its lawful
head Twiggs treason stripped him Of the assist.
ancs Of the Government OF the United States to
maintain his suthority-and he was compelled
temporarily To succumb, without admitting any
point contended for by the usurpers except his
nomentary inability to maintain his rights and
those Of the people.
He has doubtless represented to the authorities
here the awful condition Of the frontier counties
OF bis State, through Twigg's treachery, and de-
InaDdsd Of them (the Government) military pro-
lection against the savages, which 1t IL the Gov
ernrnenrs highes. duty to accord; and, our life
ont, most OF the current extraordinary military
preparations In the harbor Of New York are 10 the
end OF complying with bis rightful requsition.
We feel sure that within fortnight full twen-
ty-nve hundred United States troops Of all arms
amply equipped and supplied, will have landed
In Texss, and be on their way to drive back the
savages 1.-THE partizans Of the usurping conven-
ton undertake to interfere with their march to
perform this sacred and hest duty Of
they will doubtless find themselves confronted by
Gov Houston, at the head Of two or three thousand
citizens Of the counties-ruined already by the
late expulsion Of Government troops-,vho are at
this moment more eIasperated against the dis
unionists, than even against the sava2e, to whose
over prey