The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1867-10-19
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The negro, in The disintcgratsd,
di.joiuicd, disuniied, and distrc~vd
lssritory Of the once united etasss,
ill rules the roast" as his ts,elsr
diyiui,ies threaten he shall, and -
he doubtless will continue TO do, for
-four, eight and perhaps sixteen
! years bot tide h eSnis., the i'd
vance waves of which have already
reached ~, thst will 5000 sweep him
and his fanatical, dsnsgogical, and
trai'orous advisers. alden, and ahet-
tors, into the sweet seclusion Of pri.
ea,c life. They are nov having their
day,-onc Doubtless Of graduation
to them, but of dsubA. and gloom.
and darkness, not unwixcd with
u
present evils aud future dread to US,
hu, il is fastening to close, and
soon the places that know them, ex-
ccpi in song and story, will knox
them no more forever. Themselves
and their friends have written their
doom, aud they are hurying to YER
I lfy their own predictions. Tasy
have determined that they shall rule
OF be ruined, and their leaders have
Numbered the decree in the startled
ears Of the East, North, snd West,
and the free, un,Yammelcd white suf.
iraeans Of A-sc ATTITUDES have
echoed back their response, in tones
of defiant disapproval, not to be un-
heard or misunderstood by their
voices aud votes they have declared
thar Of the two alternatives, the negro
must be- ruined, rather than that he
shall rule Even their greatest pro.
fessioual friends and champions
those who assisted in placing them
on the lofty pedestal Of political and
social privileges and preferment,
have been unable, even in their ex-
allied positions, to recognize in them
anything bu, negroes, and now in
the first hours Of their triumphant
elevation, are DESERVING them, and do
nouncing them as unworthy Of unrc-
stricted intercourse and ahiliation
with the God blessed defendants Of
Japhct. They are held to he dis
qualified to march side BY side to the
polls with the fair skinned sons Of
the founders and trainers Of the Re.
public, and unht TO sit at the social
board, or reyel in tho "mnscs Of the
giddy dance with tho blue eyed,
rosy checked daughters of this sun
nv land. The ardent enthusiasm
which dragged them from their
peaceful and comfortable homes IN
the plantations Of the South, and
removing the hoe and the spade from
their hands, supplied their places
with the bayouet aud ballot, is fast
giving way to sober reflection and
sound reasoning, and their new
born brothers are begin ming TO be
declared no Kin At NIL" Even the
notorious and infamous Hilton
Rowan Helper, of "Ampending
Crisis F" celebrity, who in the days Of
their seryitude, proclaimed in favor
Of every slave planting a dagger in
his masters heart in recent pub.
LEGATION entitled Nojoqne,' which
work COMFORTS well with the title,
places the whilom objects Of his So
fictitious vcneratcn and piovs regard
a great deal lower than tho meanest
red man, and announces a. bis 6rm
! immediate and utter annihilation---
and numberless others, equally a.
unrrincipled aud base ms he has
shown himself in this, as we'll rs in
fx5rmcr instances, have caught up,
echoed, and endorsed his heartlcss
and villainous proposition. What
6cndish spirits must have ruled the
brains and hearts Of men, who could
deliberately plan the massacre Of the
whites, as attempted by that infuri.
ated old man, Ossawa,amie Brown,
for the redemption of the blacks from
bondage, and then, ere the suns Of
two summers have gladdencd the sky
Of their freedom, to mercilessly doom
thea, as an entire race, to destruc.
toin How deeply dark must be the
soul, and how insatia,e its thirst for
bloody horrors, that could imagine,
much less give expression to the do
sire for the accomplishment of
crime SO horrible and revolving, and
upon class Of beings too, who, II
they seem criminal, are not person.
ally responsible for the gull, with
which they stand accused. The hon
orr with ~hich they are invested,
and which have so recently madeI
them odious in the estimation Of
those from whom they had right to
expect better things, have been un.
tremendously thrust upon them
step by step, from contented and
hspry "hcwcr- Of wood and drawers
Of water" they have been unresis.-
ingly forced by their new drivers like
sheep in the shambles, into flowing
eelds Of freedom and thriitlcss in.
dolence, and they did no, even SO
much ~ open their mouths, until by
their new masters they were com.
mapdod to speak harsh and bitter
thing against those by whom they
had bSsn raised snd protected, and
who are Atill their best and only trss
frie nds. We deeply deplore the
msdncss which placed the negro In