New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-25
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Some light is thrown on tho present condition
OF Texas by the message Of her Rebel Governor,
recently received. Like all leaders Of the Re-
bellon IN these days, this Texan outlaw finds
most Of bis reasons for hope, in the future.
What he has to say OF the present aspect OF
affairs, whether in Texas or in other rebellious
States, ia sufficiently gloomy. He complains
at the outset that the citizens not already in the
army are making every effort to keep out, and
urges that both the Richmond Congress and the
State Legislatures shall abolish all exemp'
ton and substitute laws, and "cOnyert
every man in the country into soldier. "
What the country is TO do meanwhile, or how
the armies are to be fed when al the whites are
soldiers and all the negroes teamsters, he does
not explain. The negroes, however, are TO be
more than teamsters. We must do Gov. Lub-
book the justice to say that he goes further than
most Northern men, in urging that p" the swams
Of men engaged in profitable business on Their
own accounts, who are exempted nom, or AVOID,
military service upon one preteKt or another,
the thousands occupied in driving teams and
cattle for the Government agents, and Govern
mont contractors, must be placed in their re-
spcctive companies, aud replaced by negroes y
We give this remarkable recommendation liter
ally from The copy before us in The Wsshly Tel
egroyh of Houston, printed on half sheet OF
dingy- pink wrapping paper.
Bat, notwithstanding these complaints, it ap-
pears that Texas has contributed TO the Rebel
cause not lees than 10000 men in all
nearly 1000 more than her whole vote
for President in lsG0. Beside these, she is
now called upon for every male of l6
and upward. Failing this general levy,
unnumbered calamities and misfortune" will
bcial their traitorcus cause; in other words, the
Rebellion west Of tho Mississippi is going TO
pieces faster than its leaders can devise impos-
sible expedents to keep it together. Texas is
to give all she has, all her white men, all her
property, and all her negroes. The Impress
ment law passed by the Rebel Congress is
not stringent enough A State law is recon-
menled 70 empower tho Executive" when
D
able rates, "to order npressments under proper
legal regulations authority without limit.
The same il sought in The case Of slaves "to
carry on tie public works, drive teams, and per-
form MI other labor necessary TO the efficiency
OF the service" And the Governor hl, gone
.uriher than this, oyerstepping The limits OF
citizenship aid citizens property, and has
' directed all aliens 10 10 enrolled aid subject
ed 70 the draii two operations which, under
Rohel rule are generally simultaneous. Their
conscript.on is q lottery il hich the.e are roI
blan,s.
This message forcshadows with frighrul d.
tiuotion The yndict.ve persecution with which
the surviving Unonsts OF Te,a. ore 70 be
harassed. What they, aud still more what thoirl
martyrcd comrades, haye already suffered we
partly know. Hundreds OF men have been
been driven from their homes. their property /
DESTROYED, they ard their families murdered with
all dey ces oil Geyilsh cruelty, for no Other crime
than loving the hae Of their country too well. !
Their bolos whiteneyery prairie Of Texas. I'VE
have dealt very leniently By all sIoh people,
says the Rebel Governor, "toc much so, think.
The time has arrived when Toryism should no
onger, and must no longer, be tolerated. lie
ran only mean that the remnants of the brave
bands who yet remain where the Rebellion rules
are 70 be utterly cyterninaied. God speed the
lrmy which marches for their deliycrance.
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Alter considerable search We discover that !
was Bradley T. Johnson, LOW q Bdgadier in
the gobe army. aud no, Rcyerty Johnson, now
a Rebel sympathizar ia the United States
Senate, who said that ''undeT almost any con-
ceyablo circumstances Maryland viii acknoBl-
edge her rights rs = Southern State, and win
vote with the people OF tn, South" Mr.. Re
yerdy johnson inalo = worfe speech Than that
in tho Senate lest week, but he hes sins enough
OF his own 20 answer ior, and We acquit him
of this which his mare nike committed.
Tie Jopraal Of Commerce, with that urbGna
pol.teness which always characteri2cs the "con-
ie.yafiye" press, charges us with having manu-