The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-01-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.


We have escaped great calamity and it
is proper for us to acknowledge, in be-
coming manner, our Indebtedness for aid,
kindly and OPPORTUNITY extendedto us from
quarters where we had no party claim for
assistance, and could only expect it from
the justice of our cause. From the Demo
cratic newspapers, we could reasonably an
ticipate warm interest in the difficulties
which were pressing upon us from the out
rageous conduct of few desperate charac-
tiers, who were assuming to be portion of
the great Republican party, now controlling
tins country and to which they looked con-
fideutly for support in carrying out their
nefarious designs. In this we were not
disappointed, except as to the course of
the ST. Louis Republican, which, though
lately discarding its former Demo
cratic professions, we still expected,
as an old and leading journal at
the chief city of neighboring State,
closely allied to our people in blood
and feeling, to take some interest in their
welfare-at least not to misrepresent them.
In this we were mistaken. But if such pa
pers, once the great bulwarks of Democra-
cy and State rights, failed us in the hour
of our need, we can say with pleasure that
other great Republican journals, on which
we had no such claims, came forward no
bly, to our rescue. The Philadelphia Press
and the New York Herald which have sup
ported Grant and the Republican party
through two warm and well contested Presi-
Dental elections, boldly throw down the
gauntlet in our behalf, and we believe
..Ae4L--:ll5'-s ---,osl,i--ss the coveted
goal of self-government and safety. Honor
to whom honor is due The conduct of
President Grant, in listening to the calls
for justice from the influential papers of
his own party, is 10 be commended by
all parties, and shows that the days
Of calpet-bag and scalawag usurpation
and spoilagc in the South arc drawing to a
close. Now, that the real people of Texas
have been allowed to throw off their
shackles and cmancipate themselves from
the thraldom of extremeand filthy Radical
ism, as exemplifcd by Davis, Newcomb and
Tracy, let the same justice be meted out to
our sister States OF Louisiana and Arkansas
Let our brethren there have chance of Sc
curing, in a peaceable and legal way, the
same blessing of free government which we
arc now about TO enjoy. Whatever may be
the question of majorities in the poor, down
trodden, but once proud States of South Car
DINA and Mississippi, there can be no reason
able doubt that the white people of Louisiana
and Arkansas, now crushed under Radical
and negro rule, constitute decided major
ity of these suffering States, and we trust
that the great and influential papers we
have mentioned, as we'll as the New
York 7fibtusS the Springfield Repa6-
lieps and the Cincinnati Commercial,
viii not cease their commendable
efforts in behalf of the good people of the
South until all shall be allowed to govern
themselves, by a fair expression of their
viii at the ballot box, and all shall become
partieipators in the glorious advantages of
local freedom. Then will our national
Union be once more cemented with the
strong and enduring ties of brotherly love
and aifectiOn-=the asperities, the chickering's,
the eonVnlsiens, the bloody struggles of the
past viii be forgotten, or remembered only
as the grand deeds of grand era, reflect
ing mutual honor and glory on the Ameri-
can people. All this can be accomplished
by the CuEnbined efforts Of all good men,
and let no endeaYors be stayed, until self
and local freedom and br0thsz-
II sentiments shall be established and So
cured throughout the land. What we have
for ourselves, We desire for all
In this hour of our deliverance, we feel
most warmly for our Southern brothers,
who are yet struggling in the bonds Of in
EQUITY and the slough Of despOndence. Let
all be free and our joy win be complete. Z