The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-29
Gha 9eu Orleans @resteai.
TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20. 1888.
LETrER FROM BKENHAM, TEXAS.
'iai Correspondents. of sb.S. o. crsses,s.l

Special Correspondence OF the n o. Cresee,tl
BRENNAN, Sept. "a, 1858.
your Campaign CRESCENT is regularly received
snd Is very highly appreciated. In this satrapy,
however, the people, not knowing whether they
VIII pc permitted TO vote or not at the coming
presidential election, are very luke warm and
apatheuc. We see that Mr.. Pendleton Chat fea--
Iess tribune OF the peoplel advises rs to vote by
al means The Radicals, of course, are protest
ing loudly against it, saying If we do we will be
indicted, etc: II is not known yet what action our
STATE executive committee viii take on this I'M
poriant subject. Rest assured if we are permitted
for Seymour and Blair "
VIII the Northern people never awake to the
depths OF infamy, degradation, and, / fear, ult.
male oesrucuon, to which this Radical faction
whole country, The remedy rests alone with
them, and whenever or wherever thew lead with
the old flag and under the teachings Of the fathars
we in the South will follow. - =, $3.50
Our State convention after bankruptinp the
treasury has adjourned to meet again next De.
cember. They have done nothing in the way OF
Constitution making. They are now a sort of
perpetual Spanish isqusirion in the State, waiting
for the election of Grant to seal the political DEATH
warrant OF the State of Texas. Let us hope their
course is nearly run. and that instead of witness
ing on the ides OF November the election of
Grant, they will see the further prolongation of
the nations life in the election of Seymour and
We are not at all discouraged by the late cleo.
f9Rs ip ~ Ma a.s and ysrp9atO myssl FsgerBshe
attic party. l think it will have a tendency to
increase the zeal and energy Of our Northern
friends, to result, next November, in q perfect
Waterloo defeat to the Radicals. We all remem
Der how dearly the Southern people paid for their
victory In the first Manassas fight. II may be
said to have done more for our final overthrow
than all the armies of the North. Such verify
believe will be the result of the late elections to
the Radicals If the Democrats are only wary and
circumspect. ....r -.-.-- -
Our co..on crop has been materially injured by
the worms, and in this section, at least, we will
not make over half q crop. This Is greatly to be
lamented, as with the election of Seymour and
Blair and good crop, our country would have
taken a new start in material development and
prosperity. If Grant is elected, God only knows
what Is to become of us, for 1--WE are tied TO the
stake and cannot fly, but, besr.lke, must fight it
out.n -,
When Ireflect upon the mighty issues involved
In the coming election, could weep tears for the
result. Everything that people ever held near
and dear are In issue, and woe woe betide us il
the beam kicks against the gallant Democracy of
the North. American constitutional liberty will
cease to exist; but trust like the ghost of Ham.
let, it will ever haunt the dreams Of its destroy.
ers. State after State will fall under the hammer
of the most calling central despotism that the
world ever saw, and civil liberty, fear, will per-
ish from the face of the earth. We're there ever
before such issues involved In political contest!
W. s. B.