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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03
mn. DAVIS AND TEx4S- POLITICS.

BLr. Jefferson Davis having asserted in
each of his set speeches in Texas that
local freedom" was the leading idea of
true American craftsmanship, the Telegraph
dom" with sneer. 1T is, moreover, true,
that the press of the whole country has
begun the discussion of modes of securing
corporations against the ravages of thieves
and adventures invested with Office by
the rabble. Next after the necessity of
keeping John Ireland in the line of promo
ton this protection of local governments
is deemed most important of all PROPOSE
tions now considered by lawgivers. The
Galveston Neacs often adverts to it, but
never asserts the only remedy. It pirates
about reforming charters, and promises
much for expectant taxpayers who have
been defvauded by changes of this charac-,
ter until it has been discovered that char
ter reform signifies nothing unless the as
soclations, morals and interests of men exc
cutting the provisions of corporate law
be themselves reformed. 1t is men and
not Legislative codes that make municipal
governments intolerable. Men in power
in cities and counties make it unsafe to
suffer municipalities to tax themselves. If
they who pay also impose taxes there will
be no unwise or needless subscriptions
made in behalf of schools or railways The
Constitution need only protect counties and
towns against those who would plumber
and destroy, and then invest these munich
palities with absolute unrestricted rights of
seif-government In this consists the true
idea and fact Of American freedom. The
Legislature regulates the personal and civic
rights of men; municipalities affect prop
erty rights alone, and the instincts and In
terests of property should shape municipal
law. For want of moral courage among
party leaders-among men like John Ire
land, contemplating accession to the lofti-
est political positions-it is proposed to
evade the issue which the Nescs discusses SO
timidly and which the Telegraph ever men
toned with sneer or in -derision until IIr.
Jefferson Davis digni6ed it, in the eyes Of
the Telegraph, with his earnest approval.
Asserting his devout adhesion 70 the Fed.
eral Convention and to the Union, Mr.. Da-
Wis, at the same instant asserted the su-
preme necessity for that perfect local inde-
pendence which can only be attained, espe;
ciully in the South, by the restriction of the
right OF suffrage, in local elections, 70 those
who are affected pecumarily by these mu-
nicipal governments. ssas
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CHILDREN substitute epithets for argu-
ment, as fools and knaves resort to the
dodge when addressing ignorance. 1t is
easy to insult intelligence by an appeal to
dePrayed prejudices of stupid ignorance,
and therefore the propriety of asserting the
Radicalism of the STATESMAN, the only pa
per in Texas which has persistsntly pre-
sented and upheld the solid structure of
Democratic faith and philosophy. Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis possibly knows in what con.
sists true Democracy, and he has said it was
embodied in the maintenance of local free
dom, Therefore our conclusion that he
who declares the STATESMAN an ally of
Radicalism is either stupendous fool OF
stupid falsifer
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CHICAGO, TEXAS, AND THE GREAT
COUNTERREHTRR. raa.

A prominent Southern Republican writes
10 the Chicago Inter Ocean that the ''SOuth-
ern leaders are organizing another rebellion
in Texas There must be truth in, this
positive assertion, and especially since it is
evidently credited by the Inter Ocean, We
had innocently believed since Mr. Davis
found negro-ruled Mississippi an unit
abode for civilized man, that he was merely
inspecting the alleged attractiOns Of Texas
with the purpose Of finding proper home
for himself and wife and children. His
speeches, however, were all utterly insin-i
cere- He only sought to delude old Texas
soldiers and make them absurd inBthei
worlds eyes when he said they should ad-
here with unfaltering fidelity to the flag Of
the Union. OF course he was organizing
rebellion And when we find the great
leaders Of Texan Radicalisnl in solemn con-
clave at Hampstead, only last Wednesday,
and these gathered from all quarters, de-
yising plans for the overthrow of the Demo
cratic party here and everywhere, it is pass
ing strange that they did not tell of the
plot brewing in Texas that hourly thickens
and threatens the American Union. How
stupidity blind were we when congratulate
ing Texas and the South and the whole
country that jefferson Davis may not have
dug, but had surely bridged the chasm that
once separated the North and SouthI Of
course the STATESMAN was the innocent
dupe of Mr.. Davis's shallow falseheods.
But, seriously, is it not foul shame that
an American city, seeking the trade of
Texas and pretending to desire closer So
cial and business and political relations
with Texas, suffers such newspaper as
this false, brutal, malignant Inter Ocean
to have existence in its midst2 Should
we punish Mccartney, who devotes the per-
fectiOn of Chicago taste in rtand of genius,
in intellect and,of Chicago purity in morals
to the delectable business of counterfeiting
Chicago bank notes While Chicago sus-
tains newspapers simply to revile and de-
Stroy and degrade Texas everywhere in the
worlds eyes, Texas, thus smitten on one
NtA0eA, shouIu haluly PIesenC tue Olher'
Texas has never dreamed, since the South
promised the country peace and repose, of
harming the Union; but if there were a
proper commendable and defensible mode
of resenting insults to truth and to Texan
honor proffered by the foul press of Chi
cago, the people of Texas would not be 10th
to adopt it. Therefore the assertion of a
correspondent of the STATESMAN that any
Texas jury will acquit Mccartney if he will
only agree to confne himself, as of recent
months, to counterfeit1ng Chicago bank
notes
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State, which is rieh enough to pay, honestly
and fairly, for services rendered BY toiling
printers; and surely his Excellency's clerks
have been guilty Of al uninteutional omission
in this behalf. It i not to be expected, how
ever, that a public oHicer VIII advertise forthe
public good. The idea Of servingsthe peo-
pie nevermore enters place-hunter's head.
He never inquiries whether the advertising
agent have clrculsion or not he adFer-
tises to serve himself and not the public,
and authority given an oficehoIder to ad-
vertise is only employed to PerpetGate the
power Of the plaeenan. There is palpable
moral culpabilIty, to use no harsher epithet,
in such official conduct, and we only advert
to the strange facts affecting the people of
Waco and of Austin to show that clerical
officers, even the agents of a States chief
magistrate, often commit grave errors, and
are strangely forgetful of plain principles
of right. Austin is the larger city of the
two, and yet Waco is notified, officially,
through its newspapers, Of the coming Of
bHC anu AubL4
must either never know that a convention
will sit, or Waco is the stupidest copmu-
nifty on the continent. It's greatest light
has left it, but it dos not follow that there
is such broad difference in the popular In
telligence of the two little cities as this IN
dicated in the conduct of his Excellency's
clerks. Great glaring advertisements, in
its great daily newspapers, signed pro
t0rma by the chief magistrate of Texas,
with the broad seal of the commonwealth
attached, tell Waco, like the Prophets
muezzin at sunrise each day, that the great
convention is eoming while this wretched
city of Austin stalks on in darkness, and is
officially supposed to know nothing of the
great event in modern Texan history. The
Legislature should either have advertising
bills created for the good of the public, or
make those people pay who derive personal
advantage or personal qualification from
these expenditures. The deplorable condi-
ton of the States balance sheet, it occurs
to US, requires practices of honesty and
economy and not blind partiality. .g 4
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: THE STATESMAN said, some months ago,
that the revival of memories and feelings
and patriotic purposes Of the olden time by
the centennial celebration would result in
the perfect reproduction Of the Union as
our fathers made it. In such event Sambo,
as voter and citizen, goes under. This
palpable necessity Is made apparent by the
New York Herald, which prints fac sim7e
of a Nsw York newspaper one hundred
years old. It's most suggestive ADVERTISE
ments tells of "SAmbo, likely African,
sold for no faulf but ''offered' for pounds,
shillings and pence.
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rHE zFF1TR A. aES7HFFsrEAD.

a
The Radical convention at Hampstead
was designed simply to keep few fellows
prominent. Grant has two years yet to
serve, and Federal patronage is worth not
little in Texas. The Hampstead Conven-
ton, blowing about other matters, had ref
erence to this fact alone But It viii also
serve our friend John Ireland good turn.
BE can frighten, people with it, and it is an
ugly scarecrow, though the crows them
selves see the joke and hollowness of the
stupendous sham. 1t will serve, however,
to lift up Governor Davis as on a pole, even
as did frailtiesI Of old lift up another hrazen
serpent in theywildnerness. that any fellow
starving for spoils and dying Of the Ieprosy
of Radiealismi may Look up and be healed.
1t is the black pillar of cloud by day and
fire by night beneath which the followers
of our Moses Of Radicafism may gather
ambrosiai mamma scattered BY the 6eSeHcent
hand of Federal power. AS a party capa-
bic Of anything more than the easy task Of
exciting the ire of Ireland, Radicalism
docs not exist in Texas, 1t Tayages five or
six counties and half dozen towns and as
many incorporated villages, but where there
is. so little money and 50 few honors and
emolqments are involved as in this contest
for supremacy in the constitutional convens
ton, it is quite impossibleB Davis and
Federal pimps and uplacemen to weld any.
dangerous voting force in Texas. bnBut
Davis may succeed in aiding ireland in Civ
ing Texas a partisan constitution, full of
the prejudices of partisanship, and thus
Davis may deserve well Of his country.
Extremes do always meet and do always
cooperate, This fact is illustrated on every.
3 frf .ai.iGm?iu09 o. l1HlQHl N u =
page OF American political history, Oyel-
Jealous friends of good cause are ever,
practically, itsiwoTst enemies. 10,
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A oENTLEMAN named Caldwell, ard q
doctor, though loudly called for by ''many
voters, " absolutely refuses to be a candidate
for the constitutional convention, in Waco.
He says his training and habits Of life and
want Of that sort Of information, historical
and professional, that would adapt him to
the Office cOmpeIs him to decline. He is a
patriot and q gentleman. and should have a
monument reared in his honor even now.
Where did he come 'front.' Where was he
edncatedl Was he in the late warg How
did be escape the itek-for oficea
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As reported in the STATESMAN Of Wednes-
day, the Supreme Court, Justice Moore de-
Iirering the opinion, has rendered very
important deciaoH. IN Willis y. The State,
from Galveston, the court decided that the
school tax Of one per cent-s leyied under
order Of DeGress, late superintendent Of
Public Eduestion, was unconstitutional.
This overrules the opinion in Hall :. The
Houston and Texas Central Railr0ad Com
pany, and Kinneg -zimPelman. The
opinion i ableapd exhsustiFa and the peO-
pie Of Texls WQuld haEs saved miIlions 81
dOllaa hsd our present supreme judges
been il tie places Of their pledece.sors IA
1871. This deeiaiOn nay raiso sOne euE.
ogs questions is regurd q tie security Of
ne fortunes e thoes plfosu Whopcre en-
riehed by = ooliectio1 q tie tax.
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The Radicals, at their convention In
Hampstead, after some wrangling and
good deal of sharp talk among the darlkies,
who over-shadowed that body, enunciated
platform, which, at present, will be
noticed only in the way Of faithful synop-
sis. This platform contains both truths
and falsehoods, which will be discussed at
full in the future. eT
It asserts that "a few months since
the Democracy obtained possession of the
State government, and that in that time
offices have been multiplied, the State debt
doubled, and this, too, after the public
school system has been abolished.
That the convention makes no recommen-
dation for voting for or against consti-
tutional convention. 1t is recommended
that the "most intelligent and discreet
citizens be voted for as delegates. l
That interference in constitutional con-
ventions with the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the Federal
Constitution is against the spirit Of the
party.
That the new apportionment of the State
into Congressional districts is condemned
as partisan, as also the late interference
with and removal of part of the judi
ciary.
That it is asserted that the inauguration
of Democratic administration in Texas
has proved the 50 death warrant to internal
improvements and all candid-minded
men are invited to Join the Republican
party lin one more grand effort to wrench
Texas from the fossilized Democracy of the
past, and to put her on the road to sue
cess" i
That the people of Texas are warned that
the Democracy are increasing offices, ''thus
heaping upon the back Of the people a
mountain of taxatiOn-p ha sae
That the Republican party pledges itself
to the 'snoral elevation OF the masses, " and
''the perpetuity Of republican institutions; .
that the Constitution Of the State, it being
one Of the conditions upon which Texas
was lately admitted to the Union, requires
public schools to be generally kept up at
least four months IN the year; and that the
Democratic party has defeated the school
system by contradictory laws passed upon
the subject of public education. Liberal
men are invited to unite with the Repubi-
cans to restore the public school system.
That the national administration is
thanked for its protection Of the frontier,
and attention is called tcthe Rio Grands
border, there bsing urgent need forprotec-
ton there.
That one or more Federal judicial dis
triets are asked for in Texas.
That answering cOnfdence is expressed
in the principles Of the national Republi-
can administration.
That a jOdioieas public school system Is
Necessary to the preservation Of the repub-
lie in its purity. and that the Democratic
party stands committed 20 the mainte'
nance of ignorancs, with al Its attendant
evils and dangers" w
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NO. 40

THE statistics OF the Baptist denomipa-
ton show that Georgia is the hammer Bsp-
tist State in the SOuth-having 10, 900
members, while Kentucky has IL, 600, Vir-
ginia lag, 600, aud North Carolina lie, 500
members. In Texas the Baptists and Gran
gers are, We believe, OF about equal num-
bers. In the mode Of organization OF the
several churches, each is pure and isolated
and Independent republic, acknowledging
no earthly master or superior legislative or
executive power, and women, ike men, as
In the Oranges, are voters. Each Baptist
church Is thus simple republic and from
its form Of government Patrick Henry and
Jefferson are alleged to have drawn their
philosophy Of American repnblicanism and
conceptions Of local freedom.
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THE depth Of the mud, at the Balize,
which is an aIluvial powder and much Of it
vegetable matter, is equal to that OF the
deepest part Of the Gulf of Mexico. Eads's
jetty walls must therefore extend down
ward at least 1000 feet. But this mass Of
matter is constantly generating gasses and
subaqueous explosions, and upheavals are Of
constant recurrence The mouth of the
Mississippi was once at New Madrid, and
more than twenty thousandr years have
elapsed, and even yet the country about
Cairo Is occasionally made to tremble by
just such nameless forces as Eads must en-
counter when seeking resting places for
stone or wooden or iron walls. Even if
Eads rear massive pyramids, mighty as
those that lift colossal forms above
Egyptian sands, there are forces potent
enough, born in measureless alluyial
abysms, to lift these mightiest possible
structures from their deep foundations.
There is and can be at last but one remedy
for evils Eads would obYiate. It must be
found in slack water ship canal from New
Orleans itself TO deep water. M. de Les
seps pointed the way when he gave the
Red Sea an open water way to the Mediter-
ranean, and our ''iHland sea- must have its
suez canal to the Gulf of Mexico.
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II Is asserted by rabid party leaders that
the Changers win send to the constitutional
convention either q lot Of broken down
party leaders and old soFebacks, and men
Of insane pfejudices, like Dedorse, or igno-
ramuses of matchless stupidity. They
who say this of Texan farmers are ignorant
Of their worth and intelligence. They will
send up the wisest and best men in the
Stats, and those most capable OF shaping
wisely the States organic law. They will
not inquire whether the candidate be a
Granger or not, but whether he have abil-
ity and learning and integrity, and the
integrity and the courage to serve the State
rather than the party. 1t lie in this that
most aspirants are sadly wanting.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03

+" THE Daily AdvOcate accuses the Houston
Telegraph of putting itself on a level with
second class newspapers. We are surprised
at the AdUOcate's tardy manner Of thinking y
Statesman. ~
"The AdcOcdts soas tardy, for we had
often been told the TeIe0rGph lowered its
standard when it entered the lists with the
Austin STATESMAN. - Telegraph.
the other half to the public printing con-
tract. It is amusing to see its fondness for
what it recognizes as second class business.
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III As 4 F1RAnIR-sUILDER.


ConsoIidationists, Grant, Of course, ap-
proving, have often proposed to have the
government buy the telegraph lines. Post
master General Creswen recommended the
policy, and Grant was its earnest advocate.
It would have doubled Grants patronage,
and given HIM infinite power over the press
and opinions Of the country. IN iact, If
Grant had recourse to this resource, in ad-
ditiOn to the Treasury and banks and sixty
i've thousand Federal holders, the
aristOcracy upheld by toiling millions, there
would be no possibility Of excluding him
from the third term. The British govern
ment was induced, some years ago. to purs
chase the telegraph lines Of the United
Kingdom st cost Of fifty Millions The
annual interest on this sum is one and three
fourth millions which the lines have failed
to pay. Now the expenses exceed the IN
come. and the failure Of the government to
achieve the slightest good. ss ever happens
whenever it passes beyond the nsroWest
province Tor which govcrnments ere framed,
VAS agsln illustrated. The lines ara badly
managed and are going 70 decay even as =
were Infinitely wiser and cheaper and safer
for governments and people e the mails
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JosEPH eELIoNAN, the San Francisco
banker. proposes to furnish thlrty nillions, II
st, Louis and San Francisco win supply ten
millions each, 70 extend the Atlantic and Pa
eilc fosd On the thirty-tifth parallel Of lati-
tude from the Mississippi TO the Pacific.
seiigman is undoubtedly rich, having bank
ing houses in the great Oities Of America
and EarOpe. he went on foot and peuniless
acrOss the continent from Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama, in lslo.
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LINCOLN was assassinated, and his poor
wife is mad; Msximilian was murdered,
and Carlotta's intellect reeled and fell and
was buried with him. What monuments to
crime do these wretched women constitute
The griefs of human life find their most
pitiable victims and ekemplars in women.
It were better to have died like Lincoln or
as did the good Austrian, rather thaa 1--we
as baye these two widowed wives. Pitt
able living monuments are they to hates
and passions and selfshness of men.
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LERDo Is the most liberal, intelligent and
progressive Of the masters Of Mexico. II
be continue practices Of government now
inaugurnted there win be no need Tor the
absorption Of nsighbOring districts By the
United States. Lerdo and his congress
have provided for railway from Vera Cruz
70 zamarana, from Guyamas across sonora
and propose 70 make ell needfuI eonces-
siOns to the International from the Rio
Grande to San Bias or Mazatlan.
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REAvIs, the capital mover, is going 20
Europe. He is not only the capital mover
but his washerwoman thinks, we kinder
guess, that he will move more Of the whole
country to the Old World than any prede-
cessor who has crossed the mighty deep.
If Henry Clay Dean could only accompany
Reavis, Western town lots would advance
in value. In any event undealed dirt
would become very scarce in those parts.
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RANDALL is good man and true Demo
crat but Sunset Cox has been true as the
needle to the pole for more than twenty
years. BE has never faltered. he has been
the truest friend of the South, and espe-
cially Of Texas, and how Western Texan
could prefer any man, even Randall, the
high tariff Pennsylvania Democrat, So
called, we can't understand. " Booby
Brooks is good man, but has neither the
wit, nor genius, nor tact, nor quickness Of
apprehension Of the facile, fluent, imper-
turbabIe Mr.. Cox.
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THEaE is great excitement in washing.
ton in the Department Of Justice because
Of Macartney's escape, and il was said
there on the twenty-sixth that Mr.. Purnell's
successor, as United States Marshal, would
be appointed during the week. Il is com
monty stated by the detectives who have
thrice captured Mccartney, that he has ever
bribed the Federal marshals and thus Is.
capped the penitentiary.
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GovERNoR DAVIS found Parsons noisy,
brawling, troublesome partisan in Texas.
and sent him into exile by appointing him
State commissioner for Texas to reside, we
suppose, in New York or ..... anywhere,
50 that he remained outside Of Texas The
people Of this State win never recognize
Parsons as their representative at Philadel-
phia He might as well step down and
ont
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TIE New York Herald asks If the Pope
would not have all the churches free in
Spain where Catholicism is dominant, why
should Protestanism, supreme in America,
suffer Cardinal to be crowned and exer-
else his peculiar functions in America. The
young king of Spain refused to listen to
the demands Of the Pope's agent and rellg.
ion is still free in Spain.
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THE Rockport Traasoript is happy to an
nounce the absolute perfection Of grain
crops everywhere in Texas. Cheap bread
and beef and rich lands, progressive rail
ways, matchless healthfulness, and the COM
parativc freedom Of towns and counties
from savage domination, make Texas the
most attractive Of all commonwealth.