Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-26
PROM Texas.
FOIities---Absenee OF the Military Bu-
reau----Peaee, Quiet and Order----su-
periOr crOps----F0od F'Ienty----Imixra-
ton. etc. etc.

Correspondence Of the Union and Ameriean.)
WAxHAcHIE, Ellis county, Texas, Sept.
Is, 1S66.-Through the kindness of some
friend Ihave been receiving the Weekly Tn
ION AND AMERIcANre regularly for some months
past. 1t is indeed welcome visitor to this
prairie land, and is read by myselfand many
other native Tennesseans with interest and
pleasure. Our mails through Central and
Northwestern Texas have all been regulated
and are in regular running order We have
a daily line by coach up and down, from
Galveston and Houston, North TO the Mis-
souri, and Arkansas lines. Also, direct COM
municatien with Shreveport and Marshall,
by way Of Dallas.
Our State Government has passed quietly
into the hands Of its new officers, and all is
working harmoniously and well. We
have been watching from the peaceful shades
of our quiet retirement with interest and
anxiety, the progress Of the great political
battle that has been going on among our kin
dred and people, in our native State; and /
assure you, it is with pride and pleasure we
see Radical and Brownlow despotism going
down before the steady, onward march Of
true Conservative JOHNSON democracy. We
congratulate you with all our heart upon
your success and the hopeful prospects for
the future, of our once proud and chiyalrous
State. During the war there was noState in
the South more united and jealous in the
Southern cause than Texas, and especially
this part Of the State.
At the close, the rebel army on this side of
the river was abruptly disbanded, the SOL
diers, at once leaving the field, and bloody
scenes of action, returned quietly home
and many, if notthemajority Of whom, have
never seen Federal soldier since For the
want of tools and materials in this section,
Governor HAMILroN's field Of operations
were comparatively limited, and his sympa-
thy and labors were confined more to East
ern and Southern Texas, while Middle and
Northwestern Texas were given over TO
hardness Of heart and left almost free to
work out their own salvation; for there were
no Radicals here to put in operation his
Radical machinery, and no one else knew
how to work it. Being directly under the
influence of no military post, the people
were not prescribed, nor restrained by mill
tary edicts nor arbitrary powers. The writ
of habeas corpus, the great anchor of civil
liberty, was at once recognized, and
civil law put in full force. Not
withstanding the Judge upon the bench, and
j
dicial District, was fresh from the so-called
rebel army. appeal to Texas and the
records to bear me witness, there has been no
place in the Government, North or South,
where the laws have been more honored and
respected, and administered with more fideli-
ty, and where peace and prosperity has
blessed the land more abundantly, than in
Middle and Northwestern Texas There
hoe haay, M vatliforu arraufs -;oso,,s o,,t
breaks, no great military and political ex-
elements to corrupt and distract the people.
When a man has beeu wronged by his fell
low man, he appeals to the judge and the
jury in that good old way, where mis- wrongs
will be redressed, and where virtue meets its
just reward and crime its sure punish
ment. That corrupt curse of all curses,
the Pandora's box-more Familiarity known
as the Freedman's BureauA-is known here 4
only in name, and is regarded by all classes
and colors with horror and fear. There has
been no interference in this section of the
country by the military whatever in behalf
Of the freedman, and the result is, there ezt-
lists nowhere in the South better state Of
feeling and action between the former mas
ter and slave, and no place where there is
more prosperity, contentedness and we'll
doing among the freedmen than in Middle
Texas. The demand for labor regulates
prices, and the laws Of honor, humanity and
justice collects the pay. The result is, the
freedman gets better wages for his labor,
they collect their debts or contracts much
more readily, and they have more true
friends and better protection than any
Bureau in the South has ever yet afforded
them. Now, l ask, what would military
post and bureau do for us? God forbid we
should ever be afflicted with such a curse.
Texas has been blessed with an almost
unprecedented crop year. The wheat, corn
and cotton crops are all good. This section,
and generally throughout the State, has not
suffered day for rain since corn was plant
ed. Emigrants to this country can assure
themselves that they will find plenty room
out here, and Texas fare in abundance.
Specie prices-wheat is worth 81 per bushel
corn so cents per bushel, beef steers So per
head. Pork will be worth cents per pound
and plenty. We are looking for heavy
emigration from the States this fall, and
will be glad to see them come. r. s.,