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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

None can now question the justice Of the
STATEs1IAN's persistent assertion Of Cover
nor Coke's ability. There is aWide-spread
prejudice against the creation, for any pur-
pose, Of public debt. With this feeling
popular sympathy was universal. and yet
popular opinion was rapidly converging
upon the conviction that the concession Of
three millions in bonds to the International
was less calamity than any fatal and final
obstruction TO the progress Of the indis-
pensabIe railway. Whoever was right or
wrong, wise or unwise, it now signifies moth
ing. Governor Coke cut the Gordian knot,
solved the difficulty and defined mode Of
adjustment which pleases the Legislature,
will be approved by intelligent people
everywhere, and lights the way to q brilliant
future for this great commonwealth. As
the STATESMAN was not chary in. con.
demning and resisting those whose
policy it deemed ruinous to the best
interests of Texas, even so it will
not be sparing in laudation wher-
ever and by whomsoever deserved.
The compromise bill, when signed by his
Excellency and accepted by the company.
aceOmplishcs greater good than was ever
effected by any single enactment of any
Legislature that ever shaped the fortunes
Of Texas. Western Texas is at length sat
isied that the Governor and Legislature
recognize its existence and rights fIls. .ssA-
lidity of the Democratic party is perpetu-
ated harmony is restored throughout the
State and in all branches Of the State gov
eminent; and there will be no disturbing
question to prevent, if the convention be
called, as it should, the selection of the
wisest and best men in Texas to shape the
States organic law. sia /. g. .oi1
Not long ago there prevailed here deal
Of feeling among the people of the State
capital. They imagined, even as did San
Antonio, that Austin and Travis and other
counties west Of the Colorado, were harshly
dealt with. All this baseless prejudice dis
appears in the presence of facts Of legisla-
ton now before the country. 70 demon
strate the simple truth and give proper ex-
preston to the feelings of the people Of
this city and county and to show the Gov
ernOr his cabinet and the Legislature that
Travis county and Austin are both generous
and just and ever ready to recognize their
own fault, if any have been committed, and
concede the wisdom and generosity of our
lawgiVers-for this end it is proposed to
celebrate the acts of the Fourteenth Legis-
lature, as proposed week ago in these col
umns, by an entertainment at the Capitol,
to be conducted under the auspices Of the
municipal authorities. It Will be an occa-
sion for many congratulations and of re-
joiciDg for those who really love the State
and would promote its aggrandizement.,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

THE Pamela Waterman is no special friend
of the International but properly esteems
the fair fame Of Texas. When it thought
the bin now vetoed was the law, it said:
st was a pretty good ''ix-up" for the
taxpayers, but what becomes Of our good
name and credit abroad We may be
wrong, but we are of the OF Union that the
run, to have complied strictly with the
original contract.
No Texan loves the State or is worthy of
il who would hesitate to pay ten cents on
the $1,000, even for thirty instead of four or
FIVE years, rather than have his mothers
name befouled with the Sinking grease
spot Of Reputation. -.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

TuE Fres Pfsss Mas bathed IN tears last
Saturday, and not in the sparkling waters
Of The beautiful san Marcos riveT, IL which
it Is accustomed to make It's ablutions and
contemplate its sweet, bright face. Cover
nor Coke wrought the fearful tEansfOImA-
lions IN the appearance and feelings Of che
vivacious newspaper, even as he has blasted
The brightest hopes and future fortunes Of
Texas II the international be driven into
the ombfaces 81 the Central and die Of The
veto. The people win contemplate the
facts and rot TIE forly-six pages Of philoso-
ply emanating fr0m the pen Of his Exoo-
lenel.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

TIE Ags says q good man holds the eFi-
dence n black and white to show that the
InteEnational subsidy bill paid its way
through the Twelfth Legislature. True or
otherwise, it is true that a majority Of the
Democrats in that body voted for the bin,
and among the rest one of the most famous
members of Congress at this hour from
Texas, aud side by side with hIm stood the
late eloquent N. II. Bowers, of the greatest
and truest of Texans. But the Fort Worth
Standard says that it would have no regard
for the oath Of the Agss witness, who con-
fesses that he himself was bribed. lie was
a villsin OF would not have sold out. aud a
worse villain to betray his 'pals." He
comes into court donbly perjured, and the
world don't trust such Witnesses.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

WHAT, in the name of common sense or
Nc SiIc same eiiing OR COlInion lIN"i
have we to do with the venality of the
Twelfth Legislature. It may make US very
mad and may have been very disgraeeful,
but its acts are the laws of Texas, have ever
been so regarded and Governor Coke is
surely in the wrong place to commend dis
regard of law or oflegislatiye acts, Either
Iepudiate the Legislature and all it did and
the government of which it was part or be
honest and brave and stand by its contracts.
It would be dlsgraceful in our own eyes to
assent to a. part and not the whole system
of Dayis's oligarcby. j. HTg
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

THE National Repa,6licaa represents Gen.
Forrest as making speech at Muldon, in
Tennessee, and declaring his readiness for
the next war against the Union. Forrest
has made no speech; he never proposed
another war or another Union, and there is
no such place in Tennessee as Muldon. II
these assertions had been embodied in a
Texas letter to the Inter Ocean, nobody
would be amazed but unless some ono WI
pick very large hole IN the mlilstene, we
can never penetrate the mystery. The
mills of the gods" we read about may. new
ertheless, shell it out,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

THE Bremuud SsHttnstIs serving we'll tue
people in its earnest efforts to assure the
construction Of the academy building to
be occupied by Mr.. Glass, an accomplished
teacher. Nothing so strongly attracts In
tellisent populations as good schools, and
then when these owe existence to the sun
taxed, 's0lahtary liberality of the people, the
world understands at once that the popula-
ton Of the place is admirable in spirit, hSb-
It's ahd intelligence. BY their works We
shall know them q Ia7-sa c -T
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

LAND is now inconvertible, such is the
condition Of the money market, and the
State owes the same debt of benefcence
to each district. All advantages of the
States generosity should not be given to
one district, and another subjected tolncura-
bic evils of poverty, of yaluelessness of
land and of incursions of red sayages. Let
the State be just as well as generous. The
Jinplecute says there is not railroad in the
State of Texas that has not been built en-
tirely by the credit of State subsidies, and
they all belong to foreigners.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

Ak English physician, during lecture TO
female audience on the use of alcoholic
don are never sober from their birth until
they are weaned.p
We have seen men in Austin suspected Of
having been s.raised by the bottle, . and,
stranger than the fact announced by the Brit
ish doctor, there are grown up babies in
Austin never weaned from their first love.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

LEADING Republicans like Dawes, Gar
field, Hale, Blaine, Kasson, Willard, and
Hawley, of Connecticut, opposed the force
bill in the House most strenuously. 1t
avaiIed nothing, Grant had ordered it and
his minions were resolved to do his bid
ding. The New York Times, it is proper
for US to say; is violent in condemnation Of
the despotie measure; but Radiealism in
Congress, seeing poweFEand offices slowly
and surely going out OF reach, pretends to
believe another rebellion imminent and the
horrible measure passed the House. i''
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

The Texas correspondent of the Inter
Ocean writes villainous letters dated at diff
ferent points but all evidently written from
Austin. How many people can spot the
man9 He draws his wit from stores doled
out by poverty-strieken memory and facts
from even more beggarly fancy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

GovERxon ,CoSE lslass5@ Coke even in
the executive chair. he splits hairs and
talks splendidly about constitutional law
and ethics even when considering plain
questions Of statecraft, and Of practical
State policy. Slow courts and swift rail
ways have become terribly entangled in the
dreams Of Senator ireland, and in his Ex-
ceilency's admirable veto message.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
ThE Free Press saws

The Free Press says:
e oThe last number of the Seguin Times
endeavors to annihiIate the Austin STATES
MAN. We scarcely think that paper will be
completely extinguished, 5ae 20
The Free Pres hardly comedies proper
force to the Times. The STATEsMAN's cir
culation has been growing with unprece-
dented rapidity of late in Western Texas,
and especially in the region round about
Seguin. The Tines and Senator Ireland
have done it. 5 s.4..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

TINS recent murders in HldalgO county
were committed by six Msxicans. Fulton,
the merchant, was shot in several places
and his pockets rifed. NilIanueva's body
was found AZ his door. All light valuublss
were deported into Mexico. Stock farms
everywhere arc made desoIato By MsxicAhs
and red men, and now Che bandits rob
towns aud viliages and homes
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

A IETrkR from Austin N the CIeveiand
Fiaiaasal.F does injusfiesto the intelligence
Of cur Legislature. bai aslEs how Il happens
that there are six neerocs II our lower
honss and not ooe Ii that u Ohio. The
aufal oproar made for negro elAanciip sfion
Ii ohio I'd tbe world 10 Suppose that TIE
iilIsiafs o. iks STATE would nov be 81
least hall black.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

TwENTY-FoUR years ago the Gainesville
Adg0cate was advocating the excavation of
the canal from Red River to the Trinity.
No wiser scheme for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of
broad district of Texas has ever been
conceived. It stands next, in prospective
yaluec to the International Railway.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

One suuars-eight Hnes-s1 for nrst insertion; nfty
cents for each subssquent insertion.
special notices next 20 reading maftsr, g. 2Ol Fl
square, each Insertion Eight lines or lees one square
Reading matter. local column, fifteen cents per
line.
Advertisements payable in advance.
unle8a with Ghose doing regular buals
mess under contract.
tive vl eos. ,: VIA ,I parties sssslTss at the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

FoREIeN populations, not only from the
Northwest, but from Europe, have most ex-
allied notions, and properly, of the inviola-
billty Of public honor. Therefore the per-
feet unity of the German voters Of Texas,
who approve as one man the action of the
able and worthy member from New Braun.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
national subsidy bill.

FARMING lands about BRENNAN are worth
from $50 to 500 per acre. The Interna-
tional will beget such values everywhere
along its route. It's value to the State and
towns of the stsse grows in proportion to
its length, each town and county being con-
stantly enriched by contact with Others
more remote.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

THE Tyler Reporter evidently thinks it
struck Governor Coke in weak spot when
it said:
1--WE all remember with what emphasis
Richard Coke said to the people Of Texas,
during his canvass, IF am elected Cover
nor, by the eternal, no clique or ring shall
crack their whips over me.'n
People may yet learn that the surest way
to get the Governor to a desired point il
to attempt to drive him in the opposite di
rection.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, in recent
medical article, maintains that rythmical
instincts have physiological origin in res
piration, and thinks Zone can hardly doubt
that Spenser breathed habitually more
slowly than Prior, and that Anacreon had
a quicker respiration than Homer"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

IStheSery brief report we made yester-
day Of Mr. o'Nears response to an article IN
the East Texas Eeaier, and to Mr.. Epper-
sons reply, II should have been stated that
Mr.. EppeFson said that he should heartily
cooperate with Mr.. o'Neal in carrying out
the proposition that he made in regard to
their future action touching the local mat
ter to Which Mr.. 0'Seal had referred IN his
speech, and ia that there would be perfect
harmony between them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

CoNeREss having adjourned, and the
force bill having died on the night of the
fourth instant, Texas may go to the grave
and read the convention bill as the funeral
service. There is little danger now that
Grant will whack our State government
over the head.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

GzN. PM Cook, Of Georgia, denounced
the force billin the House as infamous, and
the assertion as fouiIy mise that law Was
not administered IN Georgia, orthat Repub-
'iicans were Prosecuted. He said the records
Of the Comptrollers Office showed that the
eolored people in Georgia owned over $780,
600 acres Of land and So, 900, 900 worth of
property. Would they have made such in
vestment had these stories of outrage been
true Aet
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

A LoEDoN journal has been exposing the
nefarious dealings Of the money lenders. A
firm of extortiOners brought an action for
libel, but the court dismissed the complaint,
holding that malice was not made out, and
that "a strong case of public benefit was
shown"
If London jury win not punish a news
paper, what's the use in suing an impecu-
NOUS institution in Texas Z
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
TEXAS AND THE OLDER SOUTHERN
sTATEs-TaE POssIBELITTEs.

There Is much want and not little real
suffering in wide districts even of Western
Tennessee. Corn is sold in Austin at sew
enty-fVe cents per bushel and beef is ''nom-
inal," and yet Tennessee papers tell that
Texas is the place, and not Tennessee, ITO
get away from.n We would rob no State
Of its citizens and surely could have no
sufficient indacemen to mislead the Igno-
rant. Butin salubrity Of climate, and exu-
berance of soil, Southwestern Texas is as
confessedly superior in every incident of at
traOtiyeness to any portion of Tennessee,
even to the paradise about Columbia, as the
Blue Grass region Of Kentucky to the sterile
hiilsides Of McNairy and Dixon and Humph-
ries. It Is no easy task to begin life do moro
even in Texas and he who has good home
and is growing old, even II the soil he Gull
tivates be sterile, might find it best to risk
nothing. But tho young and vigorous, who
would win wealth and power and grow
great with a rapidly growing State, where
cosmopolitanism is dominant even among
the unlettered from sheer force of contact
with strangers-such men Of vigorous brain
and muscle should come to Texas. The
worlds map, If the international and Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas roads be extended
to Austin and Laredo by the wisdom of the
Governor and Legislature, defines no State
or kingdom or island or mainland more at
tractive for its matchless beauty, its plains
and rivers, its endless prairies and wide
extended forests of live oak than South
western Texas. Hero roses bloom perenni-
ally; here the tireless breeze comes up from
the sea as softly as Aphredite from her bath
in the Egean; here skies arc of deeper blue,
the air clearer and purer and flowers ofricher
hue than elsewhere in all this broad land.
We love the land of our nativity, and can
..ss,..:Ss Ne s;shi8e Of tho pines whose
Al . aRna Tar away. We
would DO more rob our mother, who taught
us to love the State above all things, than
rob the hoary old commonwealth; but
Texas, in every incident of attractiveness
to agricultural populations, is as superior to
Georgia and Tennessee and the Carolinas
as is Illinois to rOck-ribbed Connecticut.
Give as in local legislation that wisdom and
progressiyenessa and broad intelligencewh which
shapes laws and builds railways and POUNDS
universities in Eastern communities, and
Texas can have no rival among American
States, eitherin cheapness or value of homes
for the million, in variety Of products, or in
limitless undevcloped resources. Nothing
casts q shadow over Texas, or obscures the
horizon Of the future, save possible mar
rOwness Of intelligence which now and
then encompasses and fatally hedges in
Texan genius for tasks of craftsmanship.
Man'sintollect cannot grasp, for their very
magnitude, the mighty interests and SPLEEN
did possibilities Of this rich and vast South
ern emnire.
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AuSTH1T
thursday. :. 49,. MARCH II. 1875
no sUBsCHIRERs AND coRREs-

Persons writing to this Office in relation
70 their papers or business, will please state
the postOiice to which the paper is, OF will
be sent, OF the answer must be mailed.
They will also state whether they take OF
desire TO take the DAILY or WEEKLY.
BY so doing, much delay and trouble viii
be avoided.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

THE President is reported Respondent.
He breads to ''take the responsibility" him
self. Brooks, of Arkansas, is again quoted
as Boosting that he will have all the troops
he needs as soon as Congress adJourns.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

sMOAHNG THE oAEUMRT-A REs-
IlNAL FOR TEEE EBG1sL sTURB
AND OFFICERS or THR STATE
GoVKRNMENr.
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A distinguished gentleman pays for the
circulation Of fifty copies Of the STATESMAN.
at Wholesale rates, to be sent TO different
gentlemen throughout the State. He says
he owes rs this sum for the services we
have done the State. We wish the masses
Of men were blest with conscicnces as Just
and heads Is fun Of wisdom as this friend
Of the STATESMAN fzr~ f
The San Antonio Herald wickedly tells
poets to "stop sending their efusions to the
San Antonio Herald, as il is about to take
the Office stove down, and viii not know
where TO iile the gems Of thought away
but the Bastrop 4dDTtiser had spome
IN It last week that was beautiful. The
postage 70 BestEOp is the same as to San
The JimPleeute says. s1f the Interna-
tional bin is to be vetoed, we hone
We vail not get the news to-day. Such Z
gloomy day Is q bad time 70 stand bad
news. Let rs have It in the bright sun
shine-h Il must come. The feeling here
~ regard % the course Of Governor Coke
On the international bill, which is now be-
tors him. IS most intense
The Bolton goarnal alone. Of ell our en-
changes. save and EXCEPT the Esaminer-a
new convert, and therefore zea1ous-is sin
trantically opposed 70 the so-called . Inter
national steal But the Journal Il good
PlpcfS and when this matter Is eeltled, e
= must be even now, nobody win con oTer
iis pages with pleasure than the szAIEs-
ne Panola W0fct mQn Is mad g hornet
because our ConeTes men arc SEEDING dis
p1,ceeo . re Legislature, telling e %
lee thn .1-,~.--r-r, go. did Tnfrn frrIrrIn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

The Galveston Aeics OF Tuesday saws
that the Radical party may beseonziliered
extinct in that city. Fulton had been nom
mated over Lubbock, at primary election
for mayor, on the Democratic ticket, when
the friends Of Mr.. Leonard brought ms
name forward ss an Independent opposifi0n
candidate. The Radical party, composed
almost entirely Of negroes, had then .
chance, as they thought, to run man IN,
called q convention, and q yellow negro,
named Cuney, received the nomination.
To the credit Of Mr. Leonard, he thepwitl.
drew his name, and DIR. Fulton was elected
by 2533 majority.
The Hearne EnterPrfse. telling that the
STATEslGAE secured several hundred dollars
for Mrs. Raines, the wife Of the preacher
convict, approves our conduct and shows
that its heart is &c tender as its head Is solid.
Raines .'may be guilty, It tells rs, Hbut We
are glad the poor wife and child rcceived
such tokens Of sympathy. II innceent, BE-.
Raines's family hage The consoiafloas 81
cleaying 70 him amidst al his troubles; and
i II guilty, his punishment should be ret
greater for woundi1g 50 terribly such trust
1 ing hearte
Texans NAY net unde-sfaud II; but We
think we do. and think 4 extraordinary
tuAl taDlAl ia AAl44 aI Ntr - sl.tAAfI .l4ll44I
/ IN the Tflton-B eecher tournamcnt Triton
and Bcecher were nccustoined 70 saiute each
ether with skis. Henry Wafl. selelIev
kissed the mnluni fisnd whose hand tied
20 the storm and nov Mrs.. Nculfon ravs
that she once kissed Beocher on the fore
head n q sponta1eods burst o. feIninine
sympathy. evoked ly bis manly tears. II
nIsy be--buf Pet thai 4 scarcely possii -
and yet-well. after All re dcn'f kpow
anything aboutit
The Rapakess ss4a we have never vt
heard d any one aricmrfing a cross caifle
over the RIO Gandt ia he night ffnc, and
The cilcumslant1 evidences, q ven AZ tie
direct testimony 81 3 lnfee bofy % So rsI-
cheI1e. proves flnf the Gorg 81 lle 81, lirIs
= gublerfuee ~ coTer their cEinlinsi Coz,
duct And BESIDES re know The eilizeus