The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-05
Texas in "a Nutshell.

Extract from Lieutenant Governor Hub
bards speech in Atlanta, Ca
Our state is great also, and we expect
sooner or later to become great man
ufacturing state. We, too, have iron
and coal, and cotton, but perhaps a
quarter of century will pass before
we can realize what is now within
your grasp. 1t is with this view partly
that we have visited you. We desire
to urge the men of Georgia, and Ala
bama and Mississippi, to bring that
| influence to bear upon congress,
through their representatives, as shall
induce the government to indorse the
bonds of this Texas and Pacific rail-
road, to insure its speedy completion.
For out of all the millions of dollars
that have been appropriated from the
national Golfers to aid the railroads
and great internal improvements of
other states, this one orphan child, "
ing down upon the shores of the gull,
has received not one cent. But that
time has passed, hope.
Gentlemen, you will pardon me if i
mention briefly something in regard to
the objects of our mission hither. We
would not dssatisfy the humblest
peasant, who has his cottage high upon
The mountain side or deep down in the
valleys of beloved Georgia. Certainly
we would not seek to dissatisfy her
aged citizen, whs fingers here over the
graves of his dead. We say to them
i'm all earnestness, stand by your house
hold gods forever! Applause. You
have grand and beautiful state,
whose farms and fields you may resus-
citate and revivify, as is being done 10y
the people of the eastern shores of
Virginia. But we have this to say:
If the same spirit which moved our
fathers to leave their homes in Virginia
and MARYLAND and other eastern states,
i'm olden times, and come to Georgia
and the Carolinas, and Florida and
Alabama, you, too, are desirous OF
changing your homes, then we tell
YOU that Texas opens wide her arms
and bids you generous welcome TO a !
generous soil. [Applause.l VIII Geor-
1ia be envious of her younger child
Tcxas has nearly 10000 square miles
of territory. This ought, instead OF
being the proportions of state. sounds
like the measure of an empire. IN
1850 we had population OF 2lO,nO /
souls; now the records show mat we
have a million and half of people.
The actual census returns ia 1870 was
200. 900, but the statistics aud records OF
he bureau, of which my honored col
eague, General Robertson, is superin-
eudent, show the figure To be over
400. 900. We have an annual increase
If over 30, 900. In 1850 We raised 3d.
NO bales of cotton. This season We
viii send 100000 bales through the
titles of Galveston, Houston and st.
-Oais. Our entire state debt is less
han s., OO0, 900, and our floating debt,
which is still less, viii be relieved in
eSs than four months from to-day.
Then the state will lie virtually out OF
ieif. the floating debt being already I
,rovidel for. The taxalile properly OF
he state has increased to $40, 0O0, 600,
mon which a taxation of one-half of
ne per cent would be amply sufficient
o nav the debt and interest TO the
resent date. We have a public do ,
main of s9,OO0,000 acres, all OF which ,
re to-day, with the exception of the
,lano EstacadO, or stsked plains, as