The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-27

On next Tuesday week, being the second
day of December, you will have an oppor.
tunity TO determine by your ballot, whether
you will perpetuate the Infamous rule of E.
J. Davis and bis myrmidons to fleece you
not only Of your hard earnings, but also by
the re-enactment of such laws as the State
police bill, suspension of hd6cas corpus, re-
dace you and your children not to a meta
phorical, but an actual scrfdOm. We ask
you, have you registered2 That is the first
and paramount duty of every citizen.
Reeollect that on the 9th day of this month
the registration ceases and after that day nc
citizen who has failed to register can do so,
nor can he vote at the next election. We
cannot for moment suppose that good, in
telligent, moral and industrious men, who
have the good of their families, their own,
and the welfare of their country at heart,
but what desire to rid themselves of the ne
farious rule that has oppressed Texans with
dire oppression and ground them into
dust. Hence we make this earnest appeal
to all whom this admonition shall come
greeting. We are fully aware that there are
some sleek politicians of the Bob Taller
school who manage to feather their own
nests, whatever the public poverty
these in small numbers are found
and flourish in every neighborhood. To
these we do not address ourselves, having
no use for trimmers, but, we repeat, we
address ourselves to the good citizens, the
taxpayers who have to support the govern
ment by their toilsome labor. We make
this appeal the more urgently because in
this, al in other communities, there are
many citizens, highly respectable, of cor
rect business habits and sedate lives, who
repudiate an adherence to either political
party, and accordingly hold aloof from all
active participation in public affairs, lest
they should be deemed political partisans,
or apprehensive that they would be tainted
and reproached as politicians. In the ordi-
nary affairs of life, and when elections occur
involving the mere preferences for individ-
uals who shall discharge the routine duties
of Office, this apathy though it may be rep
rehensibIe, would not BIZ considered erimi-
nal but now, when Texas as subjugated
province is, by fraud and military. force,
subjected to a despotism, the result of
whose fell deeds, you and yours, are
doomed to experience for years to come, it
is submitted tc your decision whether to
continue in power this horrible tyranny by
rejoicing E. ]. Davis, or to reclaim that
heritage of freemen fought for and won by
our fathers--a constitutional government
we feel assured there can be no hesitation
which to choose. No good man certainly
would espouse the cause of despotism by
casting his vote for the reelection of such a
bad man as E. j. Davis to the Governorship
of Texas, when the alternative is presented
to him for a constitutional government
and for Richard Coke, an honest man, for
Governor. Under the present sad condition
of affairs in Texas, we cannot suppose that
the great mass of our citizens, by whatever
political designation they may have hereto
fore been recognized, viii vote for Davis or
for the restoration of Radicalism to power,
for the grievances, however direful and OPP
pressive, are altogether political, and have
been created by Davis and his myrmidons.
Davis and his Twelfth Legislature have adj
ded taxation to taxation until the taxation
is greater in amount than your revenues de-
rived either from your labor or your proper
tY will enable you to pay without seques-
tering all of your resources. Even by our
most determined efforts and practicing the
most rigid economy we will, still have to
pay heavy taxes for years to come to hqui-
date the debt of millions of dollars created
by Davis, and squandered by him, David
son, De Gress, and such like. But unless
there is united action on the part of every
good citizen, and that action must be poll
teal action, how can you prevent these
harpies from continuing to eat into the
vitals Of public prosperity We therefore
urgently Hentreat those of our good people
who are disposed to abstain from political
action to reflect for one moment on the vital
consequences that will result from their
apathy. Re-elect Davis, whether by your
direct vote or by remaining away from the
polls, and there is no high-handed despo-
tism to which you yourself may not be sub
ject, however improbable such an act may
appear now. We refer you to Louisiana, to
South Carolina, to Florida and to North
Carolina for examples sufficiently pregnant
to convince the most innocent, that none
are safe if the incentive exists. Son ARt0-
MO Herald. 8 s.i