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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

PEERREPONT GRANTS STONE
BRIDGE.

There is much talk about the accession Of
Ben Butler to Grants Cabinet. He is, the
letter writer says, about to be preferred to
Pierrepont. This latter gentleman gave
$25, 900 IN promotion of Grants first cleo
tion, the most unfortunate expenditure for
the country ever made by an American citi-
zen. At the sHme time Pierrepont slipped
off from the Democracy. He has never
faltered in devotion to Grant, and has
never ''got his money back" Pierrepont
is man of ability and of confessed per-
sOnal worth, and if he be appointed, IN
stead of another Williams OF another
THAT idiot from Georgia once in Grants
Cabinet; it wasn't Standard l-if Pierrepont
be appointed, Grant viii have two decent
gentlemen in his Cabinet, Fish and Pierre
pont, tie latter constituting the substantial
astone BRIDGE over which We would fAin
hope the President is at last travelling in the
direction of decency.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
rnE oOUNTRY,s.wOnsr ENEMIES.

It is even painful to contemplate the
utter indifference, on election days, of the
best citizens of each town and city when,
through the balict-box, questions of pro-
foundcst public interest are disposed of.
As the practical interest of this class of
people is lessened, that of the blacks is
heightened, until there are multitudes of
white men who do not vote at all and in such
localities Cuffee, and the wretched white
thieves cooperating with him, is necessa-
rily supreme. 1t is needless to define the
result. A traveller in the South, even seeing
villages and counties from a flying railway
train, can designate the scenes of Radical
supremacy by the blackened houses, the
absence of paint, decaying fences and by
progressive desolation that marks negro
ruled counties and towns on every hand.
White people cannot be persuaded to exert
themselves or even to vote IN a rabble-ruled
ward in New York city. When a decent
citizen goes to the polls and finds hundred
stupid, bowling, drunken idiots stufing
ballot-boxes and defying decencY and bully
ing honest, respectable, intelligent voters,
it is not strange that they turn away dis
gusted, and that even in the North modest
intelligence and genuine worth are practi-
cally disfranchised 10y unworthy concessions
to demagogism. Here, in the South, the
enforced neglect by the best classes Of
people, of the highest civic duty,
is even more intolerable. Governments
may become so grasping and oficeholders
so numerous and tax-gatherOrs so ravenous
that people may hate the government, but
this government cannot make white black.
1t cannot make the one race an integral
part of the other; it cannot force them into
the same homes, or to sit at the same tables,
or vote at the same precincts. The two
races live apart from one another even as
Africa itself, at this hour, is wholly
separated from the continents, and, signifi-
cantly of the fortunes Of Its people, has
become, save to the extent that Egypt is
invaded by white men, a body Of dead
sand, contributing neither wealth nor in
telligence to the progressive fortunes Of our
race. The mighty hand Of Federal power
would create unity where God decreed di-
versity, and Sambo Is invested with perfect
citizenship. The white man submits since
he is helpless, and, abhorring the degrade
tion Of citizenship, he evades its duties,
and stands aloof from the befouled ballot
box. Whose fault is iti Newspapers that
pander to the basest instincts OF the mob
denounce the whites that they do not
vote, that they do not attend At vOt-
ing places, that they are faithless to
themselves and the true interests Of the
country. The converse Of the proposition
is true. Il is the country that has been
hithless 70 The people. The party leaders
have 80 defled sndage, certainly in their
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
THE GREAT LIBEL SUIT IN
CHARLESTON.

The whole country rejoices that the
Charleston Neaos and Courier has triumphed
over Bigamist Bowen. He caused the pro-
prietors of this journal to be indicted for
libel involved in the editorial declaration
that Bowen was an assassin. Bowen, if we
recollect Alright, was a subordinate officer
in some Confederate regiment at Charles
ton, and was cashiered and drummed out of
the service for forgery in 1868. Col. W.
P. White was active in the prosecution, and
Bowen hired and frightened an ignorant boy
Grimes to assassinate White. White was shot
by the youth at night, but not fatally. A
knowledge of these facts came to the edi-
tors of the Neoos and Courier, and while
Bowen, thanks to negro genius for duties
of good citizenship, has honors and wealth
lavished upon him, and while he has occu-
pied a seat in Cong ress, and to-day is high
sheriff in Charleston, the newspaper
has not ceased to publish his mis-
deeds, and make him infamous. He
sued the newspaper for damages, and by in
dictment in his own court, and with his
negro jurors, proposed, under the laws of
South Carolina, to send the publishers,
Messrs. Frank w. Dawson and James
Riordon, to the penitentiary. Never
did any suit in Carolina courts ex-
cite keener public interest. The editors
employed detectives to traverse the whole
country and search for the youth Grimes
whom Bowen induced to assassinate Col.
White. Grimes was found and quietly
brought TO Charleston. His presence in the
city was not known to Bowen until he was
introduced before the court. 1t was feared,
we suppose, that Bowen, omnipotent among
the blacks, would find means of assassi-
mating the witness. But even with Grimess
testimony only eleven of Bowen's jury in
Bowen's court were for the acquittal of the
defendants. But the tables are now turned.
The negroes have learned all the facts and
begin to comprehend the enormity of Bow
ems crimes. The defendants become prose
cutors and Bowen, with the witness Grimes
and others to substantiate his statements
before the court, will probably spend the
remainder of his useful and beautiful life in
the penitentiary. His career only furnishes
valuable illustration of the wisdom OF
those who suffer the black and white rab-
BILE to select sheriffs and other officers for
counties and cities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
SOMETHING WANTING BESIDES A
BUREAU OF IMMIGR AIION.

London papers, and those of Belgium,
and especially of Germany, invcigh bitterly
against American immigration schemes.
As shown by extracts telegraphed Friday
from London, the objection to America
consists in enormous burdens levied by the
rabble upon municipal governments. The
governments of States, since the war, cost
ten times more than when knavery was re-
pressed and offices were made for the bene-
fit of the governed, rather than as rewards
for services rendered in desolating, murder
ing and destroying. In one Southern State,
IN al hich the rate of taxation, when the
people were twice as able to pay as now,
was from six to ten cents (not per cent? per
annum on each 500, the rate now varies
from forty cents to sixty cents, and it is
amazing 10 hear the governing class" tell
the dear people how grateful they should
be that their burdens are so light(D. The
State used to tax land, and a few leading
incidents of property; now the State ran
sacks earth, air and ocean to discover sub
jects Of taxation. But State governments
may possibly be endured. The German and
English press tell the truth, and have dis
covered the source of ruinous evils Incl
dent to American systems of government
They have learned, while dealing in bonds,
such as are shoveled out so literally by ad-
yenturers swaying the destinies Of counties
and towns, that these are the chief agencies
for the destruction of property values es-
pecially in the South. American city Sc
curities, in fact, are no longer saleable in
Amsterdam, and Hollanders, as well as Ger
mans and Englishmen, are constantly told
how reeklessly debts are fastened on>pos-
terity by migratory mObs that even travel
from one city to another in order to invest
men of their own sort with power to rob
and destroy. These are facts now dis
eussed IN European newspapers. They are
thoroughly understood abroad. The evil is
growing hourly greater. It's operation Is seen
and felt even here in the capital Of Texas
II Paralyzes to-day the energies OF Houston.
Il has destroyed more than one hundred
towns and villages in Mississippi. Il has
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

ASD then, too, sad to ten, the LIE County
Ezpositor is the same sort Of Radical with
the Dallas HTqld, and most Of the press Of
Texas. It saysi when advering to the
party lash proposed to be used in approach
ing elections, that the people should be too
intelligent 70 submit lcngerto It's infiction,
OF to be deluded By word which, Ike
charity, covercth multitude Of sins. The
people, it SAYS, are far in advance Of the
timid press, and have lost respect for the
bowling derVishes OF patty. They are
always crying "wolf WOLF y when there
is no wolf MoanWhfIs the damagognes
are tins bone into once, and the pOOr psO-
pie are sOOu ready to b sOped in again
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
MIR. ADAMs's REPLY.

&UINC1, June IL, lSSS.
Dear Sir-Half an hour ago l received,
and this moment have heard read, for
the third time, the best letter that ever was
written by an octogenarian, dated June /.
have not sprained my wrist, but both my
arms and hands are so overstrained that 1
can not write a line. Poor Starke remem-
bered nothing and could talk of nothing but
the battle of Bennington; am not quite so
reduced. can Lot mount my horse, but
can walk three miles over rugged, rocky
mountain, and have done it within month;
yet | feel when sitting in my chair as il i
could not rise out Of it, and when risen, as
if could not walk across the room. My
sight is very dim, hearing pretty good,
memory poor enough.
l answer your questions-is death an
evil2 1t is not an evil. It is a blessing
to the individual, and to the world yet we
ought not TO wish for it till life becomes In
supportable. We must wait the pleasure
and convenience of the ''Great Teacher"
Winter is as terrible to me as to you. am
almost reduced in it to the life Of bear or
a torpid swallow. / can not read, but nv
delight is to hear others read, and tax alla
my friends most numerically and tyrannI-
cally against their consent. The ass has
kicked in vain all men say the dull ami
mai has missed the mark. This globe IS o
theatre of war, its inhabitants arc heroes,
The little cells in vinegar, and the animal
cule in pepper water, / believe, are quarrel
some. The bees are as warlike as the Ro-
mans, Britons or Frenchmen. Ants, cater
pillers and cankerWorms are the only tribes
among whom / have not seen battles; and
heaven itself, il we believe Hindoos, Jews,
Christians, and Mohammedans, has not al
ways been at peace. We need not trouble
ourselves about these thiRgs, nor fret our
selves because Of evil doers but safely trust
the Ruler with His skies. Nor need we
dread the approach of dotage, let It come
if it must Starke remembered TO the last
his Bennington, and exalted in his gloryy
the worst OF the evil is that our friends will
suffer more 10y our imbecility than we our
selves.
In wishing for your health and happiness
am very selfish, for hope for more let
ters. This is worth more than $500 70 me.
for it has already given and it will continue
TO give me more pleasure than thousand
Mr.. Jay, who is about your age, am told
experiences more decay than you do.
Lam your old friend,
JoUx ADhws
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

Ex-YIcE PRESIDENT UES. JoHS C..
BREcKENRIDeE, who exploded the Demo
cratic party, or was one Of the instru-
ments-he and Dougias-and thus bursted
up things generally, has been hobnobbing
with one jeremiah 'COlbaith, alias Henry
Wilson, Vice President of the United
States Of America, and then sometimes
called the Natick cobbleF. He became
wee president because he is supposed to
have been the father Of sherry eoJJles. In
any event We cal think Of no better reason.
But this is reason enough for John c., OF
any other man, to like him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
THE GULF AND SANTA Pc ROAD.

Gen. Bragg says that work is actively
commencing on the Gulf and Santa Fe
Railway Within few months it will be
completed to the line of the Houston and
Brazoira Tap Railway and being of the
same gauge as that road the Great Northern
and the International freights can pass
from and to the interior without breaking
bulk. 1t will be only ten miles further
from Houston to Galveston by this route
when completed, than now by the Calves
ton, Houston and Henderson Railway.
Gen. Bragg entertains glorious expectations
in connection with the Santa Fe Road. He
says that the route from Galveston
70 San Diego is only fifteen hundred
miles, while from New York to
San Francisco it is thirty-fve hun
dred miles. Here there is q difference
of two thousand miles from ocean to ocean,
an6, like Gen. Bragg, we think it highly
probable that in a few years capital will
recognize that railroad Inc from Calves
ton to San Diego can be made the best
paying route between the waters of the
Atlantic and Pacific Austin should keep
an eye on this route and come in for share
of its advantages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

If party leaders must make the approach.
ing election matter of partisanship, the
Gins" must beware of the "outs." These
nice little conventions always have an eye
to the main chance, and if not carefully
watched, a majority of those nominated
will favor the substitution of the 'outs" for
the Sins" and the contest that should in
volve questions of intellectual and moral
worth becomes a degrading struggle for the
retention of Offices on the one hand and
for their seizure on the other. Judge Ire
land himself is an ambitious man, and none
the worse for that but still he is an ambi-
tious man. He loves Texas, but also loves
Hon. John Ireland, and there may be other
roosvns anlkao7r,a TO tho Publso why q thor
ough partisan revolution and revolution in
placeholders is eminently desirable. Let
the people, as such, send up the ablest,
wisest and best men of Texas, and poster
ity will revere the more the virtues of Their
fathers, and Texas be blest through long
years yet to come with code of organic
law, making it pure republic and assuring
to each distinct community Z degree OF
local freedom more perfect than that which
blest and made rich and prosperous the free
cities of the Rhine and little republics OF
ancient Greece. I'D 5tl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

GEN. II. J. WRIGHT, known in Bragg's
army as of Cheatham's staff, and afterwards
as dashing brigadIer, and recently as an
editor in Tennessee, has been prOfered the
assistant adjutant generals place in the
army of the Egyptian king. There is sad
solemnity in the fact of drilling modern
battalions in the shadow Of the Sphinx,
and of preparing for war even in the face
of the pyramids, silent but tremendous
monuments to the forgotten memories OF
myriads who have fallen while they stood,
and to oblivion in the past and an eternity
before US. There is poetry in it, but too
much sunshine even for the poetry that is
in Gen. Wright.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

SSUBBISG HEERY.-Vice President Viii
son has been making q speech at Philadel-
pbia, in which be expressed his fears that
There is in the country to-day counter
revolution against the cOlored man" We
can only assure the Vice PTeGdent that it
must be q very quiet revolution, for we
have heard nothing Of it. BE also laid It
down as principle for action that 'sthe
condition Of the colored man must be i'm
proved" What improved again8 A great
deal Of money and some blood have been
already expended on these improvements; !"
and, as In the case Of man who is altering
his house, We should be glad 70 know when
the job is likely TO be fnishcd. Is II not
almost time 70 think about the desirability
Of improving the condition Of the white
manl He may be inferior 70 the black, but
still be is human being.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
NO. 43

JUDGE MORRILL,, Of the United States
court, SAID Thursday, in his charge to the
grand jury: "while negro cannot be
excluded from railroad, steamboat or
theatre, he is subject to such regulations as
the directors see fit to make. He is enti-
tied to proper and suitable accommoda-
tions, to respectful treatment, and all nee
essary facilities for travelling or seeing the
performance, but he must take such place
as is assigned him, and confne his presence
to such car or part of boat as is desig-
mated for him."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

MAJOR JAMES TURNER, one of the ablest
lawyers, we are told, of the Northeast, tells
the Leader that the compromise" So
called, made with the International Rail-
road Company, was worse for the State,
and infinitely better for the company, than
the original three million bond bill. And
thus it is, after all, they are coming round
to the STATESMAN, which lauded Governor
Coke's generosity to the last degree, and
Justly.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

IT isn't State governments, so much, that
have cursed and impoverished the people
of the South. They, the very worst of
them, may be endured. The intolerable
calamity of the age and country consists in
universal suffrage in municipal elections.
Let John Ireland inject this idea into his
hangers-on and he will then serve hls coun-
try instead of his party and be a statesman
rather than a partisan. Can he under
stand n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
MIR. JEFFERsON DAVIS IN TEXAS.


If Mr.. Jefferson Davis will make Austin
his home, he can build here, on the site
designated by the wise founders of the
city and by the wisest creators of the gov
ernment of Texas, an university as rich and
benefcent as any that lends vigor and
grandeur to English and German intellect
and character and splendor and power to
English and German empires. There is no
such site for seat of learning in America;
no spot so beautiful; no climate more
healthful no scenery more varied in
aspects; no country more rich and attrac-
tive. 1t is an university that is wanting;
there are colleges or high schools enough.
We would have here dozen colleges whose
resources, with those Of the State and of
vast domains appropriated to the purpose of
founding On university, should be devoted
by Mr.. Davis to benefcent aims he is said to
contemplate. He speaks of making Texas
his home; he deplores the condition of Mis-
sissippi, rapidly becoming wholly African
lied, and thus uninhabitable, and therefore
he prefers, of all Southern States, an abid-
ing place for himself and children in Texas.
These facts inculcate lesson which all
honest brave men, loving their country
more than party, as do the Changers, will
accept The path marked out for Texas is
plain, open, well defined. The only CUES
ton, is have the leaders of the people the
wisdom and courage to pursue it NIissis-
sirpi and the man who most loved Missis-
sippi point the way for Texas. Lett Jus pro-
tect our towns and counties forever against
the ravages of universal suffrage and then
Mr.. Davis and decent, enlightened, honest,
civilized people Of all lands viii be gathered
here with rapidity never known before.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13
THE MErEORIo NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS.

The Enan,iRer is in q woful fix. 1t is the
organ, sO-called. of the Oranges. "T. N. !"
made the world believe this, and we don't
doubt it; but then, it is also the organ Of
Hon. John Ireland. It stood by the Hon.
John even at the cost Of self-stultifcahon
in the memorable railroad row. It was for
the road at all hazards till private advices
went up, as We are told, from Austin that
it was on false scent, and then ii iopped
ineontinently. It IS weighty paper. and
everybody heard the collapse, which was
astonishing-even frightful. But there's
nothing like assurance, and the Esu,aiaer
was as blissful when pOking itself in the
short ribs as it had been few days earlier
when Il vas ignOnntly running red-hot
poker among the eOmmisSary stores Of Hon.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

A FEARFUL tale of loss of life on the
fierce ocean comes over the wires. The
steamship Schiller, from New York to
Hamburg, has gone down near the Scilly
isles, with two hundred souls. Full ac-
counts of the great disaster will be found
in the telegraphic columns.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

THE Leader is too violent. Governor
Coke is a man Of strong, vigorous, active
intellect, but he is only mortal, and discov-
ering that the people had conceived a ter
rible antipathy to the creation of bonded
debt, he followed the popular idea, and
gave land to the international. The peo-
pie themselves are not omniscient-not al
ways just. They led the Governor perhaps.
But why discuss dead question? Time
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

SENATOR GORDON says the greatest dan
ger to the country consists in the tendency
to Capitalization. This is true enough,
and the greatest present erH to the country
is the destruction of local freedom by
States, made necessary by universal suffrage,
which robs and destroys and desolates cities,
towns and counties, and yet the Federal
constitutional amendments present no OBJ.
stacles to reform, and yet cowardly dema-
gogues fear to inaugurate reform.
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References.

COFFEE & HENDERSON, Attorneysat-law; GAF-
FEY n MORROW, AttOrneys-at law; MAKEMSON
POSEGt Attorneys-at-aw Georgetown, Texas.
NORTON MOSES, Burnett Burnet county Texas
Il. A. BLANDFORD, AustiS Encampment, l. u.
o. f.; GEORGE ID. ZIhPELMAN, Austin Encamp-
ment, |. O.U.F.
l am personally acquainted with +. NJ. Bolin and
the parties who recommend him. all eitinOns OF VIII
hanson county, and believe him and them to be
Trustworthy and honorable
LEVI PENNINGTON Clerk D. C. Williamson Co.
I am personally acquainted with f. NJ. Bolin and
knew him to be jealous Odd Fellow and a high
toned honorable gentleman and as such take pleas
ure in recommending him.
W. K. MAKEMsoN, N. G. Georgetown Lodge
No. 110, /. U. U. +,
concur in the above.
A. s. REED, V. G. Georgetown Lodge.
Direct all letters to f. NJ. BOLIN, Manager, Box %
Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas.
Agents Wanted. jag dit w6m
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THE Examiner, the Grangers' organ, can
wade. into politics to any depth; but the
Oranges can't-not a bit of it. Such is the
Examiners advice. But this might have
greater weight if enforced by decent ex-
ample. Shuttle off the hay seed and stand
forth III native naKednesS, or so hack into
the caverns in which you would have the
poor farmers hide their diminished heads.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

BRYANT's Southwestern Railway Guide
for this month is infinitely the best publica-
ton of the kind ever distributed gratui-
tously in this or any American State. 1t is
pamphlet of 1913 pages, well bound, well
printed on excellent paper, full of maps
and statistics and railway time tables. In
fact, the publication is invaluable, and Mr..
Bryant deserves the wonderful success that
has attended his labors as publisher and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-13

Houston is so wretchedly poor, and has
been SO ignominiously plundered and
plunged into debt, even as Austin is follow
ing in her footsteps, that the city council
have refused to entertain the old veterans
of San Jacinto for a single day.