New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-09
POLITICS IN TEXAS.

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recently exhibited toward Governor Davis
while addressing Republican meeting in
Houston The disgraceful conduct in this
instance, the Union says, was enacted by
s'the sonsSf some Of the diabolical Dem
ocrats of Houston" This is strong Ian
guage, and it is to be regretted that any
portion of the citizens of Houston should
foster in their sons conduct that Justltles
such language Yet it must be admitted
that if any portion of the people OF that
city have instigated their sons-mere
youths-to interfere dlsreputably with a
| Republican or Democratic meeting, Ian
| guare condemning such conduct can not
| be made too strong. The destruction of
torchlights and the throwing Of rotten
eggs at Governor Davis while he was adj
dressing a public meeting are acts that
! can not be countenanced and sustained IN
any well regulated community. The Union
charges that these acts were perpetrated,
and fears they were instigated, by
the parents of youthful candidates for the
penitentiary and gallows. Let Us hope the
fears of the Union are not well founded,
and that parents in the future viii pre-
vent a repetition Of the conduct COM
planned Of Let them teach their sons to
be more tolerant and law abiding and the
reputation of Houston will not be injured
at home or abroad by such acts. In ad-
vising a course of this kind we have no
desire but to advance the best interests OF
city that We hope New Orleans will soon
be connected with by the close ties Of iron
rails. We do not desire to see the rapid
growth of Texas checked by a renewed
reign of lawle5sness that must create very
uRfavorable impressions abroad. In the
past tie Lone Star State has suffered from
causes Of this kind It should be the
policy Of the people to prevent losses
from similar causes in the future
In connection with this subject Of Dem
ocratic outrage5, the Union continues as
follows:
Again. we are surprised aud ashamed to
hear that some Of the Democratic citizens
of Washington county, who have hereto
fore been regarded as quiet, conservative
gentlemen, are openly advising the young
men of the county to resist the Governors
election order by violence, and iutimatIng
that they are able lawyers and that they
can clear them if they should kill any OF
the Republicans We hear that John
Sayles-God save the marks prominent
and unblushing among these evil coun-
| u u ,lI hot Nr,,
of the Democratic Pennsylvania carpet
Dagger, who is running for Congress,
! cleared Thompson, who murdered the Re
publican Sheriff HanstOrd, and told the
| jury that Thompson had only done his
duty to himself, TO his country, and his
God. They hope, in the same way, by
stocking and overawing Juries, TO clear any
| whisky desperate who may kill Repub-
| lican in the effort to overthrow the regula
tons for preserving the peace at the cleo
| ton. And John Sayles, Union man dur
| ing the war, and always heretofore an eX-
tremely conservative man, now gives cOun-
sci Of this sort to the hot-headed and law
less young men of his county.
In Republican government there can
be no excuse for resisting the laws of
State by violence; and if there are any
Democrats in Texas who advise such re-
sistance, they are also prepared to carry
their resistance further. They are no
doubt ready to advise resistance to United
States laws. But we hardly believe the
people of Texas are prepared to follow
any such advice. Their best interest is
involved in the continued peace and pros
perity of Texas. The politics that inter-
feres with the advancement of a people
should be discountenanced by them; and
we are much mistaken if the people of
| Texas follow the lead of men who openly
advise violent resistance to the laws.
But we have not yet come to the worst
feature of Democratic diabolism in Texas,
as portrayed by the Union. The follow
ing is the conclusion of its article upon
this subject:
We learn also that distractions were
| placed upon the railroad track this side of
BRENNAN, Just before the train came along
| that was conveying Governor Davis from
| BRENNAN to Houston. Fortunately, the
Instructions were discovered in time to
prevent any disaster. 1t needs no inspired
man to interpret the meaning of this das-
| tardly outrage. 1t was evidently done to
| cause a wreck in which the Governor might
be killed. When Democrats, in their
| speeches and in their papers, denounce and
| viliify the chief magistrate of the State, and
| even his lady, by the use OF every infamous
! epithet the English language affords, they in
| spire these viIlainOus attempts al assassina-
| ton, and they do it knowingly and purposely.
| They deny or defend all the Democratic
! ostracism, persecution, violence and blood
! shed in the State, and therefore it is no
| great stretch of their party malevOlence to
! Connive at the murder Of a Judge on the
bench, or of the Governor Of the State.
The placing of distractions upon a rail-
road track is a heinous offense at all times.
It is distressing to know that man is some
times induced by malicious motives, or o
feeling Of revenge, to perform acts of this
kind. But it is perfectly horrible to think
that there are men in cur midst, who,
| from political motives, could be moved to
do such acts If there are any such men
in Texas we say, in the language of TIE
Un;oa let ''the people of Texas who de-
sire peace and prosperity come out from
these bloody minded men, and support
the government and laws"
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN GERMANY.
Dollinger's schism is what may be
termed the new departure in Germany.
It promises to bear the same fruit for the