The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-01-18
T.ls C,m,ny E.ocuoa.

terror aye
Having faith in your honesty As
a politician, | would ask you shat
i. the tes, way to defeat the Convss
ton Some tell US that the sest
rcl.ey is TO vote against III othsr
.sy. We should not vote At all. Here
the negro population is W. small
the whites being largely in the ma
iori,y. Yet We wish TO 70 Tor the
Interest OF the State. Will you
/. please ,eai - how ve ran 10 rof"
Thi. ns question 10 which wc
have given gres, deal OF earnest
attention, and have not been able to
10 sny reason for rstrscting OF
modif,iws the opinion heretofore
s;vss, namely, that the nss policy
OF the Conservatives is to remain
altogether away from the polls -
I The shole conservative pres oil the
Soilh aud almost all Of its leading
men are OF the sane opinion
Ordinarily, We should prefer the
active policy 10 the inactive and, as
long as We could 10 So, effectively,
We urged the real people of the
State to register, with the view Of
gaining, ii possible, ito son:sel If
the Contention. But The cxtrcsno
u fairness Of the registration very
often made u fear ,ha, the Rsdicais
~eie using their opportunity solely
Tor the purpose Of securing ma
Jointly. The rcsul, Of the regis.ra-
lion shows that our fears were well
founded. The entire white majority
is only little over nine thousand,
and it n generally believed that the
white Radical vcie in the State u
somewhere near twenty thousand,
The truth seems to be, that the Rad
icals set out with the determination
to disfranchise just as many whites
as might be necessary TO give them
the control Of the State aud i. Is
ai-o true ,L4; the agents who did
this work have great power under
the laws Of Congress, and sill not
only revise the registration returns
but direct the election, SO that the
1 Conservatives capuo, vote with any
expectation of satisfactory result
The only hope is, that enough votes
may not be cas-, Ia wayrun, The call
ing of A Conyeotiou. and in view
of hi. matter /, IL fortunate that
the order require, the negro ballots
to be marked . colorcd, so that we
can at least ,,ll whether the ,te of
the freedmen Is lnrper or smaller
than their number on the list of
reoi.,,a,;,,n I, NAV he added ms,
here that unl,ss ,omc IA 0o0 ney
sons vote on the question. a Coo,en.
ton cannot be cnlle and i, i hopedd
,ha, his onu,er will mo, he ,,iycn II
all III, Conservatives STAY away from
the polls
In par.s of the State where the
white ,uaiori,y is large The Conser
ys,iye. will probably feel thu, thew
ought to pursue some no.tiye policy
perhsps thew NAV sunpose ,h., ,be;r
better plan would he 10 vot, for ,lcI
.ra,cs and .p.ins, a Cooven,ion
Blu, in that case there would Lc much
more danger that the votes given
against the Convention might helm
TO mae IN that m.;ori,y Of The
registered vote without which +. Con.
yention oanno, be called. than hopc
tbs, the vote for delegate. vouid
give tho Conservatives apy useful
influence ip the Conventions itself
II nigh, be said that we ought to
have some Conservatives 10 that BODY
if for no other purpo.e ,bnn +, m Ike
protest against pro,crip,,y. action
Bat would il no, be better TO protest
against the whole thing at once, by
staying away from the polls :?
Against a party like The Radical we
can do nothing withou, clear ma
joriiy, and when this truth is taken
in connection with the certainty that
Radicalism will continue to carry
on' it, ends as it has hirhs,,n aons
without regard to law or Consti,u-
uon, until II a'ouses the whole people
Tor It's overthrow, il seems to us tina,
1t is tcst for Conservatism just to
stand aside aud let the dominant,
party take it, course. We canno,
i've long under the kind Of Consti-
tuition required by Congress. and we
have not the power at present either
to make different one, Off we
had-to ret it accepted aud put in
operation. As long as We had any
chance At ALL our voice was for ac.
ton. But now, when action to any
good end is impossible, We are salts
ned that our stronger policy is to
throw the whole reconstruction