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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

There was true glory in granting the poor
boon of life to the butcher Of the Alamo.
Refugio and Of Goliad.
Here let rs pause, ard ask, are these IN
dications that the early settlers Of Texas
were rufians, and renegade adventures
Do none OF that class leave behind them
,uch records for the pen Of the historian
II We may judge human events by their
consequences, we must certainly ascribe an
important position in the history Of the
Torld 70 the Texas Declaration Of indie
ueudencc Of March 2, 1885. It secured 70
Texas . free government. 1t caused heI
20 become one Of the members Of mighty
confectionery. The war between Mexico
md the United States was an inevitable
sequence of the declaration Of March 2.
California, New Mexico, and other acqui-
'itiOns-the mines, the railway which spans
the continental point back to Washing
Ton on the Brazos. That day Of appar-
emily little things was the germ from which
they sprang.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

THE JinpIecute was musing over the pos
sible glories of Texas and contemplating
those already achieved. 1t saw how mirac-
ulously railways have transformed Texas
in all incidents of greatness. Then, still
looking dreamily backward into the past
and again contemplating magnificent fu-
ture, the Jimplecute exclaims: Thirty
nine years have elapsed, and Texas has fifty
times the population she then had, and yet
we witness her Legislature to-day covering
before the idle and unconstitutional threats
of a besotted President, and refusing for
such reasons to listen to the repeated in.
structions of their constituents. What i
comparison How the mighty have in
creased in number and lost in valor ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04
THE COURT HOUSE AND JAIL
BILL.

We have no comment 20 make upon The
veto Of the bill authorizing Travis county
70 issue bonds for building . court house
and jail. Sufice it 70 say that the Cover
nor prevents the bill becoming law, as be
claims, on account Of constitutional objec.
ions. We viii not argue against his posi-
ton. Such laws may not be cOnstitutio :
al, but the precedents Of years go to
show that they have not been regarded
In such light. ALI these points, however,
will be passed in our consideration Of the bill
as one eminently necessary for the public
good, and for justice and humanity toward
the unfortunate. A committee from the
Legislature examined the Travis county
Jail, and pronounced it unfit for place OF
confinement for any prisoner. The people
of Travis county have been exercised upon
this subject for two years, and, having de-
termined to do away with this memorial
Of less advanced days, have already com
menced the erection Of q new Jail on the
most approved plan for the comfort and
health Of prisoners. About ten thousand
dollars in cash have been already spent il
laying the foundation Of the Jail building
Here, it Is presumed, the work must cease
or the people must subject themselves to al
immediate and onerous tax to continue the
work. Unless the building is at once con
structed, that part already done viii b,
seriously damaged through exposure, and
when completed, afte- years of d, lay, viii
not contain that solidity and perfectnesi
which Is necessary for a work OF Its nature
We seriously regret the present condition
of affairs, for, If the bill has been defeated
there is but little doubt that the people
of TrsYis county will be compelled by {
stern necessity to endure the discredit o.
their present notifying situation. They
must either permit the Travis county Jail t
exist with all its enormities for some year,
longer, or suffer the effects of being heav
lily and Immediately taxed to attain the OBJ
ject proposed. Without knowing the exac
estimates, it will, in our opinion, cost ont
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Gem
plete the improvements proposed, and, while
it appears absolutely necessary to make thi
sutly, it also seems impossible for the PEG
pie of the county to endure the Oppressive
burden of immediate taxation. The bono
plan was an easy means for their success il
the enterprise, especially since the count!
does not owe a dollar.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04
a Young TeAan v, The Civil Rights

A Young TEXAN V. The Civil Rights
The following letter, taken from an
Eastern paper, which is noted for sensa-
tional articles, is too good not to go the
rounds of the Texas press. A knowledge
of the young gentleman, and an acquain-
lance with the stock to which he belongs,
give us, nevertheless, every assurance that
the story is all true. He was raised in Bra
zoria county, and is well known elsewhere
through the State. Here is the story:
PHILADELPHIA, February IS, 1876.
Editor Gdzette-Rather an amusing Incl
dent occurred at Terre Haute, Indiana, on
Saturday last, as the train stopped at that
place for dinner. A young gentleman, of
rather handsome appearance and elegantly
dressed, who registered his name as Charles
TInsley. Houston, Texas, took his seat at
the dinner table in company with young
lady, of somewhat remarkable beauty, aud
after being seated, in came an American
citizen ct African descent. vino took the
seat next to the young Texan, and he had
no sooner done so than he felt the weight of
a heavy chair upon his btwildered Uranium.
The negro rose at about the second lick
and made for the disturber Of his peace,
and when about within two feet of his
would-be victim the youngster, with dex-
trOus swing of the wooden weapon, ''shot
hi.a a.aa.la<, y sbiak-bseue,ht- hss-s e ahs
floor. The negro rose and departed, never
stopping until clear out of the dinlng-rOom.
The darkes a. first thought he would 60
back and again attack his assailant, but find
Irg out it was Texas he had to contend
Il, went OF murmuriug that "Dese
f-rs 4 -
forgot tn say that when the first blow was
delivered, it brought down the house with
applause. Having a desire TO converse with
the msn that had produced such sensa-
ton, we took a seat in the sleeper opposite
his berth, and remarked that We hoped that
would learn that negro lesson; when the
yuungster spoke up and said il he should
ever forget 1t, that by letting hIm know il,
he could teach It to him again ''You are
from Texas are you notl'' We asked. s'Yes, -
he replied, '-and don't allow any damn
(sic) familiarity with the negroes down
there" We remarked, .'this negro must
be from down there somewhere 'sNo,"
be replied, s'Our negroes arc too well trained
70 attempt such thing
We then asked, tsYou are q married man.
are Won not y ssNo," he said: sswhy do
You ask Do look like one r. ssNo. y
we said. 'sYou naturally supposed that
this lady was my wife" he ssid-s.she is
only friend, placed in my charge at Van
daIia, that l am Seeing safely 70 New York. -
ssAll the passengers applaud your action IN
the Affair." We said. Whether they do OF
not he said, ssrO damn negfo can come
the civil rights bill over me- No 81, he5g!f'
Bidding our young hero good night, We
stopped over at Harrisburg fcr the next
train. WAI0DE
ITO say the lezst Of Il, we consider that
the Young Texan should have been less for
cibly peIsuaiEe ere he took the Ian into his
own handA.-Efs. 6a-tts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04
BEYOND TlIB RIO GRANDE.

We have before given the appended facts
which the Washington Chronicle says now
have fresh importance. Works of peace
IhRReilsS 1iSsF5uxr importance Is railroads.
There are now only about 800 miles of rail
ways in the country, the principal line be-
ing from Vera Cruz to the capital. This is
now to be prolonged northwestward to the
Pacific, as the Central road, and It's con-
struction is in the hands of British-Mex can
company At Leon, ESQ miles from Mex.
leo, the International Railroad will branch
of to the northeast for Texas. Within
three months after the completion of the
Central to Leon the construction of the
latter Is to begin at both ends, under the
English company, Of which Edward lee
Plumb is the head. The International has
q subsidy of SIS, 900 per mile from the gov
eminent and must be completed within
six years, but will receive heavy premiums
for every year of earlier completion. From
this side the distances are as follows: Fron
Rockdale, the present terminus of the In
ternational in Texas, to Austin, fifty miles
from Austin, ria San Antonio, to Laredo,
on the Rio Grsnde, 235 miles; from the
frontier to Leon, 600 miles; from Leon Il
Mexico, $50 miles; whole distance to he
built, 1856 miles. The distance of St. Loui,
from the Mexican capital will be q EttI,
less than 1000 miles, and Of Chicago $500
miles. Mexico has population Of COS, 900,
Queretaro 1900. Leon, the junction, 100.
600 and the International will pass through
nine States, with present population Of
s, 900, 900.
The men TO whom Texas will be indebted
for railway access to Mexico on the on,
hand, and to the centre Of American wealth
aud population on the other, viii command
the gratitude and admiration of the peopl,
OF Texas through all coming time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04
ANOTHER TURN OF THE CRANK.

Telegraphic dispatches from Washington
say that since the Louisiana and Arkansas
Congressional committees have made re-
ports, Grant has begun to inquire what is
really the matter, and finds that he has
been wholly misled. Kellogg, Birthstone
Brooks, Sheridan and Boss Shepherd have
had exclusive access to the ear of his i'm
perial majesty, and, not to put too fine a
point on it, Grant was the last man in Amer
lea to discover that they have persistently
and incontinently lied. Grant is angry
about it, the dispatches say, that
he may now take step backward, his iron
heel first crushing the life-blood out of
Kellogg, Sheridan is . half,Eitt tafp gHlttJ
the extent that he has been Kellogg's dupe
even as Grant has been led about blindfold
by his keepers in the White House. We
can only hope that there is no mistake in
this matter and that the President will lift
from the South heavy pressure which par
alyzes hope, industry and progress and
makes his name hated and generosity and
wisdom despised.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

Our friend from Seguin, Hon. Senator
Ireland, is probably as strongly marked u
character as any whose face attracts atten-
ton in the State Senate Chamber. His
countenance wears habitually serene as
pect and his force is shown in the fact that
several little fellows, dancing attendance
TO do his bidding, not only ape his brusque-
ness Of manner, but absolutely endeavor
to look the man. They adopt, very tNanily,
his grave demeanor and swallow all his
little speeches very .JilRASlly and become in
expressibly ridiculous when strutting about
in the lions skin. Now that the contest
over the International Railway bill is
ended, each gentleman should wash his
face, throw aside his little mask, put on
his own clothes, and PLAY for himself, his
own part, in the grand drama of Texan
progress and Of Texan legislation. Judge
Ireland's greatness, il be have it, consists
a. much in strength of will as of intel
lect, and they who can boast of neither
heaven descended endowment can neither
nod like Jupiter nor WELD bis thunderbolts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

We have been often asked whether Gov
ernor Coke would veto the International
subsidy bill. In answer it can only be
stated that, IS was understood at the time,
the bill was amended in order to obviate
objections suggested by his Excellency and
with the purpose of making it conform to
demands involved in the following para
graph from his late message:
In considering the subject with refer
ence to action that your honorable bodies
may take on 1t, two modes of treating il
have occurred to me: One is to refer the
matter as it stands to the judiciary by the
passage of a simple enactment, granting
permission to the International Railroad
Company 10 sue the State; aud the other is
to settle by compr mise with the company"
Moreover, his Excellency, in correspon-
dence with his friends and with a distin-
guished member Of the new Congress, has
made declarations in reference to the bill
showing that the public has probably been
misled as to bis purposes. While he is OF
those who evade no responsibility, and are
distinguished for lofty moral courage, he is
not the fearless quadruped who bowed his
back, lowered his hurDs and met the hiss
ing, bowling, roaring, resistless locomotive
in its own path, to its own destruction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

SENATOR w. Il. BAKER.-The fact t.
Senator Baker, one of the principal stocN-
holders in the Central Railroad Company,
has voted consistently in favor of the Inter
national compromise bill is worthy of spe'
cial mention and commentator. Beyond
all doubt the building of the International
has been antagonistic to the interests of the
Central, and hence directly injurious In a
financial point of view to W. R. Baker.
He has felt this, and even realizes it fully,
but at the same time his business character
has led him against individual interest, and
in favor of maintaining, in face of that in.
terest, the financial dignity of Texas. He
deserves commentator for his self-sacri
fsing conduct in voting for the Interna.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04

IT is a good, generous and just paper, the
GAINESVILLE Times People will admire
this declaration of the Times:
"While the building of this International
road would no doubt add much to the ma
terial wealth of Southern and Western Tex
as, it would be of no special benefit TO
this section"
II that editor were interested in Pierce's
road and unwilling that it should have
competition, that San Antonio and Western
Texas might have cheap freights, he could
not have uttered sentiment more shock
ing to common justice and common hber-
atty. We believe that such an editor
would leave Texas if the international bill
were enacted. His district ofthe State has
absorbed fifteen or sixteen million acres OF
public land and the West only two millions,
and yet this paragon of seltishness objects
to a concession of three millions in bonds,
to be paid in thirty years, to a road which
will double the wealth of Texas fourfold
before the bonds mature. But the editor
possibly thinks he may die before this result
occurs; and-he ought. But if he should
get off the Northeastern end of Texas while
Judge Ireland remains in the Southwestern
corner that Eastern end will dy up and Ire.
lands end flop down and the empire Of
Texas will be incontinently smashed
They are a weighty pair, this Times editor
and Guadalupe Senator.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-04
r.E sEcOND 0F n.RC1I.

Tuesday both houses Of the Legislature
adjourned in observance of the holiday
made memorable in the history of Texas by
the solemn declaration of It's delegates in
convention assembled, that they severed the
ties which bound them to the Republic OF
Mexico, and assumed for themselves the
position Of u free and independent nation
ality. This declaration was made at Wash
ingtOn, on the Braz1s, aud with the knowI-
edge that Gen. Santa Anna, President of
Mexico, was then besiegIng the Alamo with
an army OF six thousand veterans. u was
the gage OF battle thrown down by less
than seventy. five thousand people to IA
ton numbering more than eight millions.
Il was the Anglo-American with his ideas Of
liberty and Of constitutional government
crossing swords with the Spanish-AmeFican,
and setting bounds 10 the peculiar institu.
tions Of peapts sprung from an amalga-
nation Of the European aud the Indian. Il
was the begiRning OF the struggle for AS
tendency between two races, representing
two distinct ideas. One held the civil au.
thority paramount to the military; the
other, 10 practice, bad established the con.
trary. santa Anna had overthrow the
Constitution ri 1894, and erected on its
ruins ceatraiized military despousm, and
was in Texas With the avowed obiect Of re.
duclng it's people 10 submission. A de-
cree az his government had already
been promulgated denying quarter co
Texans taken with arms in their
hands. The Texan convention ac-
cepted the alternative, aud boldly de-
clared independence, with full knOwl.
edge that failure was death. They did
their duty to principle and country under
circumstances calculated 20 appall stout
hearts -Four days afterwards the Alamo
Cell, lis defenders dying IS heroic freemen
ever dia. No messenger was LETT to tell If
the unequal light. Goliad soon saw an
other baud inundated TO freedom and
heneeiorth was hallowed ground. There
were other Conflicts memorsblo for gallant
deeds Of Texans, and for psrfdy and the
slaughter q prisoners by MexicanA The
nsagss of civilized warfare were ignored BY
Mexico. She hOisssd she black aae. and
the internal banner ioaled IN trirmph from
the Rio Grande % the Bgaxos.
The sun OF san Jacinto SGT upon ! rlo-
rious Geld. The Lone Star s6one n slTul.
eenco over defeated and ruined army.
The "NapOlroa Of the West" became the
captive Of the men whose country he h.d
devastated, WHOSE fathers sons and rels-
tives be had caused 70 be murdered. Il r..
manned for the people Of Texas 10 illustrate
mstchleas nagnaninity By granting qaareE
70 covering Ioes, and BY permittiug Santa
Anna 70 return 10 Mexico. They Won
brighter laossis lsy hamaaisy than BY valOr.