New-York tribune., 1868-08-21
TEXAS.

Hnent OF the United States
In his leading article on the 18th u the editor thus
speaks: -,
all OF southern birth and Southern worth unfurled it
but the weary night winds inourI1 & SgnlHg IN di "T
fbonc mis- proud banner Is fued aud folded, yet there
oes m the prayers Ofmany good men everywhere for the
Was unfufled. Aud although the banner OF me Union
Ipastbead OF the Telegraph be- "fuIied and folded
We that the day is not far distant WHEN the gang
chain will be broken, and that we can st doHh t ucs
vine and hg tree and none shall dare " Ol0'
make us afraid
And thus advises his fellows:
Le as rs Texans feeling the deep Importance or the
coming crisis, firmly bind ourselves lh eoIel V" ''
while living, and through life even un'D u,el1l, anu anu
lhrough evil as wen as good report In t "o
submit 20 tho tyranny ana olPIe & ioli Ia "a ~, ~ 80, ,,
let not fear the glare OF that VIVA Hghtmng that
plays the dark and omlnons ciCuq o ha.Ieu tn"S 10
no: tins Is but tic ordeal through which we are to pass
deeped and dsentlraled from this political vassalage,
We then shall hear the glad jubilee OF whole nation
singing shouting he glad song Of their great deliver
ancc and crying out death 10 tyrants, and up with
Seymour aud Blair "
The Lagrange Nec Era Of the 3lst ult also moderate
Democratic organ, in long chapter Government
which promises TO continue reyves the Calhoun theory
On a clumsy way aud tells the world that the Union must
and shall be dissolved unless held together by brute
force II says:
"These thirteen independent States created the Con-
HlutOn Ia consequence Ot an erroneous de aDouu lo
Union. they have bOred under the equally foolish one
that the Union was absolutely des!Ene4 20 DC PeiPeS"
cO.pact OF limited, welehned powers by ana between
Eve with The strict preservation OF pched faith and
honor pledged and recorded IN that compact us exist
contingent qualified one; aud not an absolute perpetual
Thus confined and moving IN lts proper anu leEl'
mate sphere it is truly thing OF reverence and sancu
Bot ike the marriage compact when phghted faltl IS
violated and honor mpeaehed it may-H mus DC tTofe
Je broken. Such q Union tH he broken i1ltSs heLd
geiRcr by brute force Og ne Ooody SFGla c ne pII.,as
Al
IaiefI 10 cd AID n,&t"
The Nep Era says in addition to all this that there
never plan Of government so little understood as
Surs Oae which has engendeIed 30 many varied and
oenaictng opinions The Northern people did M.
derstand it. and many Southern had singular ideas
IN reference TO H."
The siuguaryof the Southern idea consisted in tho
belief that the Union solemn compact on no account
90 be b4Oken.
A HonetOn paper bas the following
when our readers eousder carefully the bill passed by
the tower House Of Congress, giving the Austin Consp
rsey e cogirS oT a9 H9eate e, d 81 {nS sS 5SSd G
Senrt mSte means known to an oppressed
people 70 tlwaIt the danuabe purposes OF thtsc mad
deued revOlutiOuist They must not and snail not get
permanent control Of the STATE Government Inc shortest
instatemcut OF Gov IbrocknortOn a. the Executive OF
Texas An auxiliary to ial Is the reillsS OI Ino ISoPe
of the State pay taxes 10 an illegal ana upea govern
stop the supplies The people OF tho state nave
already been sufficiently roRDed Let then LosoVT q.
where drifting, aud cast anchor Let them
GOresee destruction tnat 3ucdQ OF
tho brakes before the crash comes Remember ,t,'e s
no legal government n Texas but that elected 1y The
people in 1866 That s onr pronnncismento Tlrock-
morton ana civil government.
And The Houston Telegraph Of July 27 says in relation
TO the supersedure of Gov ThroekmortOn:
The President has declared, what everybody knew be
gore that State Governments formed in the South
nndeE the acts are are ana & 0i
legal Governor Of Texas, and Pease has no authority
whatever. Now two questions present themselves 10
every honest aud thoughtful mind: !. Ought not Pease
hd removed and lhrOCkl0IlUu relnht0lcu1 a. HOW
ought this work TO he doue AS Go the first question, all
but the Radicals viii answerye But the plan best 10
be pursued rUnstatIng Gov. IhrockmOrtOn Is
more complicated matter Some think the
ISYOckmortOn tle legal Governor, and then let
the lates assume the functions Of ms office Others
thuk that the rie@2enjs recent ueclaIalion 10 lhI
eject n mis- message Congress, sufficient ID the prem
H1eiit Would be fully Justified in entering upon
the discharge OF MS GuDelhatoIlal uaues; we
,ueoo to 'f ie:y opinion 1o prevent it The
once was usrled by Pease, supported ov -''' | -,
GrilBus bayonrts. BalnoY ne President OF DE United
nory u no longer r27 he p-.onai 5rces to be Tecd
enforce Hu' With be de1es to be 1Ietsoie aud Of no
euS % Communicate with the President at once, aud
5earn what would be his course If Gov 4hrocEmorton
shOud assume tire rein Of government should IiloCk
morton be renstated, the Gordn knot OF reconsl coh
would he cut once, and the state be saved RON
world of trouble IN the future We honestly Den9le 1aI
this the best course 70 be pursued for the good OF the
btate.
THE TRrE STORY OF THE OUTBREAK AT MIL
The editor of The San AntoHiO Express tells
the tne story OF the recent Doedy adray in Milcan,
Texas from which appears that marmod negroes were
attacked by willie men:
The facts are these: Two men named Holiday, having
plantation about six miles from Aihcan td employed
lumber OF freedmen on settling win theIu' one oI
tleu number, blacksmith, named MHes Bio"h' e1-
pressed considerable glssalsiacuoh lew u'ya al'e
the setuolueu Brown had been drinking soue Wilie IN
that condition Lc went over to the hol"ay Ian'Saon
for the purpose Of having "Lat he deehed s gus! Hs
Tue men happened 10 be away leaE!s NOBODY az nome
but tc IuOt.or aud sister Of the Holidays Brown saw
came TAc next day Brown was told that he had m
Idays had threatened to lul linn. Not remembering
distinctly what he had said, Brown doomed u best TO
over, ana did leave the vicinity without
telling any one Hith-n gay OF tTq tne rep45I %5 a cur
bofi9r Soon word was brought that the body Brown
was hanging to tree m the bottou, not far from Ho
DAYS place The freed people talked OF arrestmg the
HOLIDAYS and taking them TO Miiican TO be tried They
Ing to get the Coroner to 90 with Them ANA hou an m
quest They determined to acc upon thls auNice anu
about twenty OF them proceeded % the spot where inc
body aid 90 be- They found D01y, uut was nol
that Of Brown The party started To aiiIcal nGGMU'el
lust as they had determined, for the purpose OI informing
the authorities before they had proceeded NILE tIfy
the Holidays ThcSherG oi BrazOs County (or one OF ms
deputies ana the 2%yGI % o'ilJ&, M & fu f ne t0 rs i -
who were marching prOmiscuOusly, and we're totally an
nhorsine foEr Of the coorcd patty; the remainder scat
tered In every direction. The Mayor who IS evidently
each other halted them aud started forward 10 hold
parley with the negrOes" As he started, lie the
gun OF young negro, who some distance down the
Column Gnark that-not he line, but cDttnHl OF,
Tarenfiy by accident" Then. according the Mayors
story, Is when tho whites who were Mllctn roughs,
commenced fire. The story Of the Mayor is sheer lab
tlcatiOn The negroes went purpOseiy unaImcd, that
kley might give cause for attack. one OF the men
had pistol, however and lad IN bis hand When tle
whites fred a shot from the &llCan party struck this
pistol and knocked out OF its owners hand This col
orcd man made his way 20 Brenhan. ! have already
laid Lieut. Green the United states officer IN command
~ Millican) is not radical This affair has, however,
Tho