The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-21
WHAF ELsE couLp d RxPEorED.


Inanother column we Republican an ex-
tract from the National Zlspusliora, pub
lished At Washington, August 4. The Re-
publican is the acknowledged organ Of the
administration, and nothing enters its col
unns bat what Is thoroughly approved Of
in the Grant circle. So, to read the article
referred 70, Governor Davis had very un-
enviable reception given him by those whom
he has been bOwing to for years. But no
matter what sycOphancy be may have re-
sorted to in the rols Of duty to Radicalism
he has pursued in Texas, he has elsewhere,
as at home, failed to imbue any one, except
those he has maintained upon the public
pap at his disposal, with any thing but re-
spect. In his recent visit to Washington, it
could not fail to be very evident to every
one that duplicity was his forte. He left
Texas, under color Of authority, it is true.
to sell bonds for the State Of Texas, butwe
charge 1t, and are ready to prove it, that
this was obtained by him through nothing
more than a regular system Of duplicity,
and while he was absent we pre-
dicted. that his effort to sell bonds would
be most signal failure. Through system
Of low cunning, he securcdt the color Of au-
thority. under which he left Texas pretend
ingIy to sell these bonds, and. with such a
beginning, his course, after departure, was
by no means surprising. Instead of going
to New York he proceeded to Washington,
with the purpose of manipulating federal
positions for his friends in Texas After
being snubbed, and disgracing the name Of
Governor by Offering to trade Indians for
Offices, he proceeded to New York, with a
bad name rendered still more odious, and
presented himself among financial men,
fresh f,om and full to the brim of his dis
at Washington. Wasitat all
natural that such a man would secure the
confidence Of fnaneiers2 Asthe Republicap
truthfully says, g there were reasons con
necIed with the reputation Of the negotia-
ton, which induced the New York capitalists !
to reject all offers of the bonds.'p The New
York capitalists, too, did not know how
Davis had used parties in Texas to further
his schemes; how the Legislature had
passed the bill authorizing the Governor to
sell bonds, but how it was understood at the
same time, he giving assurances to that ef-
feet, that he would appoint financial man
TO sell the bondss how he used q certain
party until that party had obtained assur-
lnces from bankers that he could then sell
bonds in New York at ninety or ninety-fye
cents on the dollar, and now 50 soon as this
intelligence was received, he Davis deter
mined to go on, sell the bonds himself, and
secure to him and his friends the manipula-
lion of the money arising from such sale.
Had he gone direct to New York
md devoted himself to this business
alone, it is very probable that lie
might have reaped some benefit from
.he fruit Of another's labor. But not /
80; the mans ungovernable propensity to do
wrong led him first to Washington, where
he devoted himself to disgraceful squab
Die about federal patronage, and then after
IN ignominious defeat, he went to Wall
street to play the fnancier. Financier, in
Iced. And thus the capitalists of New York
thought Had Governor Davis acted as the
anticipated-sent a financial
agent in whom that body had already ex-
pressed reliance, to New York--the bonds
would have been now sold, and the money
long since placed in the treasury to the ben
Eft, not of the friends Of Mr.. Davis, but
generally to that of the creditors of Texas.
But directly thereby hangs the tale of du-
plicity which we have now but glanced at.
Davis hoped to havedesired what he pleased
1t Washington, and through the assurance
obtained by another party, he confidently
expected to obtain money to be also used at
lis pleasure.