, 1861-04-19

We have the Galveston {Seceesion) Ne.os o1
| the 9th, from which We gather the following
| items:
Gov. Houston addressed the citizens Of Aus.
tin on the 30th. There was large attend.
ance. The Meas has = pretended synopsis oi
the Governors speech, but It is 80 mutilsted
by prejudice and brutality, that no correct
idea as to the character OF the speech can be
formed. we make few extracts from the
report:
He had csme before the people to talk to
them about the wrongs, tpj uries, insults, and
tndignity that the ConYention and Legislature
had heaped upon him, and through him upon
the people VINO elected him; and the reader
has no idea, nor can reasonably decent uer-
son form any idea, OF the terms of denpncia.
ton, the abuse, the low, noarse, vulgar Wit
that be used towards the bodies alluded to
nor shall your correspondent do himself the
Injustice to repeat this language. It was cgr-
tainly heftting the locals Of the bar.roo1n, and
had all the odor about it peculiar to such
places.
The facility with which he misrepreseuted
the Convention, the audaclty and boldness OF
some Of his positions, and the weakness in q
logical point Of view Of his entire address.
certainly gives coloring Of truth to the charge
that the General had been generously enter
tanned Previous to coming on the ground.
For iuetance, who would have supposed
that Zen. Houston, who heretofore has ALWAYS
alluded to his early achievement Of helping 10:
throw on the Mexican shaekles from tue fair
form OF Texas, would now be guilty Of saving
that the country was not bsnsItted any bv ii,
fEdeed, to hear him talk, one would think
that all the people of this Ekata had beer cnr;.
verted to the position Of slaVea by the late
Convention Indeed, he said and maintained
mat A. a much had been done by that body.
he dwelt at large upon the onerous taxation
Of the new Government of the Coutedt rata
States, and said that under the United States
rhe tax FER cGrita Was only threa dollars. hnt
that undtt ths- neT order Of things It was "a
ls is BY such twaddle as this thai Sam. Hous-
ton expects to gull the people Of this State,
he alluded to the TACT that wool growing
he said the Confederate States had imuosed
such tax upon it, that for every thousand
dollars worth Of wool grown, the producer
had to pay ont Of that anonnt, to the support
OF the Confederate, States, six hundred dol
Iars. Ry such bag.h as this, which every
des!1es sss,s;a to saw the seed Of REVOLUTION aud
1azesI Taxes!! was the hurthen of his
song. II. these "AevolutIouists," thesa
" traitors, these Anchorists," }" these "dead-
men who had deposed him, we're allowed to
pursue :he1r course unhlndered, he offered it as
prediction, and he desired his audience to
remember his words, that In less than eighteen
paonths 2 We would hare King Davis instsad Of
hing Cotto4.
. He prasG6 Mr. I.incoln, called BIN a agep.
tleman, and made fun Of eJetda Davis, and |
6atd that "Jetfaf was angry with him; had |
Written him an insnlsing message through his ]
Of State, ordering him to giTe up |
tne Government property because he had |
- n,snnbbed "Jeffa y when they were both In |
lee y. =: aenate! He hadn't great opinion /
ot ~. Davis, no how
But what may be called the dangerous .parta +
u tel ~Houst0nss epeeeh-for his personal /
all9alons are merely the rawlings of d defeated |
and chagrined old Office ho1der-Weze his fre-'
4nent appeals to the: interests Of the men
portion Of his audience; calling |
the elavearistoeracy, the slave
the slaye-monarchy! Il the speech
IA been delivered by Seward, 1t would have
9een called ':1ltra, even by Free4soileEa but,
ielyefed By the late Chief Executive Of the
1oiding Confederate States, against that 6tate
md against that Government, with the fnten->
Ion q exciting the people to REBELLION, 1t can
70 called nothing less harsh than treason, and
t only requires declaration Of war between
be governments to make the party uttering
1ea sentiments the auhject OF the vengeance
i the lay. -.. II
";-' =. i PLEASANT PARAaRArM Il
We copy the following from the recent
aessage Of Gov. Clark; !: - 49, ~
Tbs Governor asks- the attention: of The
<egis1at1ra to the disposition ct the proparty
Eq1lTed by this State from the 4oVofnment
T the United States Among. other things. l.