The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14
THE HOLY ALLIANCE In TOE CON-
17fa sTlTUTIONAL CONVENTION.

II the holy alliance in the Constitution
al Convention, between the negroes and
many Changers, would see with what
blessings they propose to invest negro
ruled counties of Texas by declaring suf-
frage to be, as the profound philosopher,
Mr.. Pickett, alleges, "a God-given right"
they should con over dispatches in yester-
days STATESMAN and see how beautifully
negro sheriff, at Senator Alcorn's home in
Mississippi, creates armies of blacks and
leyies war, even investing with his forces
the village and threatening with fire and
sword the home of the distinguished Re
publican Senator. The omnipotent Radi-
cal party in Noxubee county of the same
- -el---a-- Alno-..iA- h-lAa s,lanta-
tions, is in like manner broken in twain,
and one wing, led by Mills, and another
by a Pickett, the first an outright Radical
and the second panderer to Radical parti-
san needs and prejudices, lead compact
forces in battle array against one another.
Decent white people stand aloof and would
deem the country blest if both forces were
annihilated. Meanwhile. property becomes
yalueless, houses and fences go to decay,
and crops are not harvested on farms once
as beautiful as those that bloomed before
. Adam fell in the valleyof the Euphrates.
There is no restriction of suffrage
in those hapless districts, once the
richest on the continent and the
seat of civilization as faultlessy in the
virtue as in the matchless beauty of its
women and in the intelligence and lofty spirit
of its men. What universal suffrage has
done for 1t is written on every farm house.
The piteous story is told in haggard want
that robes backsin rags, that breaks down
enclosures about each plantation, and suf-
fers even abodes of ancient opulence to go
TO decay. The white people confess their
own degradation in their faces, in down
cast looks in the fixed melancholy which
shuts out sunshine from their hearts and
hope from their eyes. They cannot sell
their farms. Nobody will buy. No eau
casian will have home in the midst of
Ujiji while his own race and civilization are
supreme in Northern and Western Texas,
aud there is no relief and no possible way Of
escape for these hapless and hopeless Mis-
sissippians. Only one single Congressional
district Of the State, that represented by
Lamar, boasts of white majority, and the
State il doomed. Often have the white
people Of Southern Texas contem.
plated with heartfelt sympathy the
woes Of these Mississippians, and dreamed
that sure relief was in store for themselves
when Davis's oligarchy was destroyed and
the internally contrived Constitution with
which he and his myrmidons shackled the
State, was supplanted by another made by
brave, true and generous Texans for the
use, enjoyment and liberation Of Texans.
There is not house in the sugar and cot
ton producing counties of the State. not a
county or town or village in which the
white people, even in their religious cnn-
Vocaticns and in Oranges and by their own
hrcsides, have not talked hourly of this sure
relief 70 come whenever new framework
Of government was created for Texas. The
speedy coming of the hour has been asked
in the prayers of every woman and Of every
Christian OF our race in all that broad dis
trict Of the State now consigned by Mr..
Pickett and his followers to the tender
mercies Of rabble as ruinous to civilizs-
ton a. to property, and this measure has
been boldly perpetrated BY men who have
the audacity Of . Cataline and confront
those..wnom they have deliberately conspired
to rob. to impoverish and to degrade.
There was selfshness in 1t incomprshensi.
BILE; cowardice, II Federal power be dread
cd, that Is base, paDdering to the ienor-
ant rabbIe that Is pitiabls as il is iamnable.
A drifting, floating mob overruns the State.
Il drifts into cur cities and, as ordered bx
railways or inscriptions demagocues or
bJ gold, shapes the result OF elections and
she fortunes Of toiline. industrious r.pula-
iions. Upon this migratory mob this in