The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-11
LETTER FROM KANSAS.

LETTER FROM KANSAS.
FORT SCOTT, Kansas, Mar. 90, 1874.
EDITOR Understanding since you ask
ed me chow l liked Texas" Since that
time have visited several of the principal
points IN Northern TeXas-Houston, Dial
las, Austin, Waco Carsicana, &c.-and
from what l heard and saw while there, al
can say at present in favor of Texas is
that the climate is delightful, the soil rich,
and that Texas might and ought to be the
most prosperous State in the Union; and
people, four hundred million of property, a
public domain larger than most of the
kingdoms of Europe and most other States
of the Union, she is to-day, without excuse
of any sort, threatened with the stigma of
reputation, to be put upon her by cable
of revolutionists that have stolen her gov
ernment Under the present condition of
things every loyal man in Texas must feel
like man without country. The North
ern man who took up arms in defense of
the Union and returned home after the
war, felt that he had country; the South
ern man who took up arms in favor of the
Southern Confederacy, when the fight was
ended, felt that he had country, no mat
ter how helplessly lost the cause for which
he had fought; the South with its sunny
skies and generous bounty of Nature, was
his by inheritance, and even the Govern
ment which he had fought not only forgave
his crime, but admitted him to the full
citizenship he had forfeited; but the South
ern loyalist who returned with the old flag
to his desolated home, was soon made to
feel, through social ostracsm and political
persecution, that he had won the title to
American citizenship, but had lost his
country. The triumph of the Republican
party, and it's continuation in power alone
offered him protection and final restoration
to his rightful position as Southern man.
present hour remain untold. To the loyal
white man of the South have been added
the colored men. 1t is we'll known that
they came out from under the yoke of
slavery penniless, landless, and ignorant,
to make their way in life among their
former oppressors and enslavers. They,
too are a people without a country, al
though their sweat and muscle built up
the State. To them the Republican party
of the nation and the strong arm of Fede'-
al authority is the only hope for protection.
The Rebel press of Texas is to-day full of
the same taunts and jeers so common in
the dark days of 81. Republicans are
advised to pack their "carpet- bags " and
leave the State; threats of violence and
persecution are universal, and the Republ-
can who is not willing to eat dirt and turn
traitor to his country and friends, must
expect to fight and suffer, and perhaps fall
victim to assassination or the petty
vengeance Of the "chivalry ~
To-day, in Texas the State Government
has been usurped, her courts ridden down,
and revolution as rank and treacherous as
tlourshed in 81, is triumphant. The man
who now occupies the Gubernatoral chair
was a signer of the Secession ordinance,
and made his campaign before the people
on his Confederate record, and in his selec-
ton of men to administer the government
with him. he has chosen from the worst
element Of the Confederacy. Gov. Davis
was a Southern loyalist. He barred his
breast in the front Of battle in defense of
the Cnion-in the present hour his devo-
ton to his country has brought him the
reward of "man without country"
Some of the Democratic papers have
been harping on the "loyalty of Texas. :"
| will tell you something more of her 10y
atty. John Ireland, the Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee, the
virtual leader of the Democracy, and the
most popular Democrat in Texas, in a
speech lately made at Seguin, (his home, }
said: 81 hate tie United States faq, and /
rH teach my children and my children s
children 10 hate ii, for IL is The emblem Of the
degradation and Mraldom of ay country,"
How is that for loyalty? A Democrat is
so conservative that he will not buy goods
from Northern man. In the North man
seldom knows the politics of his next door
neighbor, but in Texas Democrat knows
those of the people for miles around, and
treats them accordingly.
AS for what Northern journals have said
about Texas, | am satisfied that the people
of the North have no conception of the
state of affairs existing in Texas A gen.
tleman of unimpeachable character and
nndoubted veracity "a former resident of
the State, recently told me that from cal
culations made from Texas journals alone,
he found that there was an average of about
one hundred persons killed By murder and in
ARRAYS per month, or t,oelUe hundred per
gear; and if we take into consideration the
fact that murder has decreased three hun
bred per cent since 1862 when the Repub-
licans came into power, you can form some
idea of what Texas was under Democratic
rule, and what it is now. Jails are being
broken open daily and thieves lynched and
murderers set at liberty. Murder is legiti-
mate, and is rarely pun shed unless in the
case Of negro or foreigner. When a
man goes to Texas he must Immediately
put on broad brimmed hat, swear that he
is Rebel, shoot down in cold blood some
poor, harmless, ignorant "nigger or
foreigner, and he will Immediately receive
the title of "Major" or "Colonel," and
be pointed out as one of the "chiyalry ~