The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
LET Us HAVE A Me-. DEAL.

The navigation and tariff and national
banking acts, and the scheme of paying
bonds in gold and interest forever, all oper-
ate to the inpoyerishment of Texas and the
sggandizement of New York, and there
fore we find each New York paper cooper
or compel the assent of the debtor class TO
the exactions demanded by the creditor or
bondholding class. 1t is better for Texas
to yield the point than assure the
reelection of Grant. Texas can bear
Vnything and endure anything except the
degradation of the name and fame of Tex
as. The State has a territory of its own
and the people distinetivenes of charac
ter rapidly adopted by immigrants that rem
der the maintenance of Texan autonomy
state lines will be finally obliterated and
1the identity of Texas never more recog-
hniZed. But there Is an infinitely greater
sevil to be obviated- by Grants defeat.
There are three Southern States for whose
welfare Texas would make any sacrifice of
Pmoney required at the hands of popular
generosity. South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana are to be converted into black
|cdespotisms. In each of these states Sambo
|aeigns, and to escape the intolerable yoke
Sf savage domination Misslssippians assent
to the obliteration in politics of the color
I |1ine and the perfumed Forrest Pillow floral
Eplatform is approved even by respectable
Organs of opinion in Tennessee. If Grant be
|'re-elected, this assertion of purpose will be
/ Injected into legislation and the policy per
|ipetuated. These three Southern states will
rbecome as worthy of plac-s in the Union as
'4Ionduras, Venezuela, Colombia or San Do
rmingo, and each Southern state, whatever
! its peculiar fortune, must share the degra-
Aation to which Mississippi is subjected.
Mo distinctions will be made abroad, and
the mark of Cain will be discovered on the
brow of every citizen of the South. These
|lresults are sought to be consummated, not
lbecause the negro is beloved, but because
fAthe Southerner is abhorred. "Winnebago-
ism, " injected into Radicalism everywhere,
b rejoices in this social and political degrada-
b ton of Southern white men and it is against
this that the country revolts, and to escape
= the intolerable calamity and relieve. South
/ Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi of the
most fearful dangers ever impending over
Is a hapless people, we will concede
. everything demanded by the bondholders.
n In fact, whatever candidate for the presi-
II dency assures the South that this internal
q scheme of negro mastery in states designa-
= ted shall be thwarted should have the solid
vote of the South. Such a candidate, like
Randall, may be born of the tariff system
or the embodiment of a national bank, OF
the very prince of gold-exacting bondhold-
ers. He need only declare for the white
mans supremacy, and the South would
gladly concede its support in the presiden
tial contest. Why do the press and people
persist in giving pre-eminence to this gold
and paper controversy Relatively, it sig
nifes absolutely nothing in the eyes ot
Southern people, and it is time we were
making the fact comprehended beyond th'
Ohio. 1t is false issue, designed to con
, centrate, in behalf of Radicalism, th
, whole wealth of the country, and, finally
assuring Grants reelection, to assure th
creation of three black states in the South
: The plan of operations is most adroitly con
, ceived, and such are the terrors of savag
rule in Mississippi that the people of th'
, wretched commonwealth absolutely assen
, to their own temporary degradation to es
cape immediate and intolerable evils o
African domination. Surely, there should
) be Southern cooperation in reference t.
this question. The next presidency in
: wolves infinitely more to US than any ques
ton of Federal finance. Our existence a
| a people, our distinctiveness as white men
| then the very homes and churches and race
features of the white inhabitants, certainl.
! of three Southern States, depend upoi
? the defeat of the Winnebago party, repre-
, sented by U. S. Grant. Let us hav
S done with this comparatively trifins
gold and paper question. 1t i
t used as a snare. 1t involves a false issue
e 1t will assure Grants denomination ant
s control money enough through bondholder
a and banks to buy, even as Didius bough
t the imperial purple at auction. Southern
e leaders should confer with one another Of
: these questions, and, consolidating thei
r power, prOffer votes to him who will serv
i. the South. Gold and silver and paper ant
= tariffs signify nothing. We can well affor
s to pay half the Federal debt in gold for free
dom from woes now affecting three South
ern States, and almost as intolerable in wild
districts of Texas. Let US ask the Norther
e and Western Democracy to cooperate wit
: us. They, at least, still accept Douglas
| and Lincoln's philosophy, that this is
white mans country.