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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
A PROPOSITION IN THE SENATE
TO RUIN TEXAS.

If men would utterly destroy the Inter
national Railway, as scheme of benef-
cence to Texas, they need only approve the
resolution introduced into the Senate yester
day, by which the question of its immedi-
ate extension, even that of its existence
or ruin, is referred to the courts. 1t is a
practical and not legal question. Let the
courts bide their time. The company has
no fears, and does not doubt their wisdom
or justice, or its own rights under existing
laws; but it will be time enough to invoke
the courts when the road Is rescued from
present dangers. Do the authors of these
resolutions not know that the international
Railroad Company failed last August to
pay the interest on their bonds that the
next installment falls due in April, two and
half months hence If the company
again fail to meet these liabilities, the road
passes at once into the hands of receiver
or of the bondholders, and Its sale is abso-
lutely certain and its future extension ut
tefly impossible. We not only believe but
know that the strongest men connected
with the International will withdraw their
wealth, as far as possible, from Texas If
the Legislature seek to evade this practical,
by converting it into legal, question. Let
the company, for itself, take care OF the
courts. It is only the business of the leg
islature to say whether the States plighted
faith is to be maintained. and whether the
Immediate completion of the road to San
Antonio be not great public necessity.
This is on inquiry for Legislators and not
for courts, and people who thus view it
have said that no Texan law-giver was ever
found willing to shirk responsibility by
crawling beneath the gowns and big wigs Of
any court. Let US have this question, even
at this hour, finally disposed of. Such is
the voice of the press and of the people,
and such is the voice Of the press and peo-
pie Of each State Of the South. No rail-
way line ever defined upon the cOuntry's
map, from Mazatlan to New York, ever pro-
posed to accomplish every benefcent re-
suit of railway construction for the ezelusi5s
beRoef Of Southern States and cities as does
the international. The Courier journal and
Mobile Register, Charleston Ee.ss and Nor
folk Journal each alike asserts the anxi-
ETY. OF Southern cities and States for
the contamination of the magnificent
plans Of the builders Of the International
The Pieagunss correspondent writing from
the city of Mexico congratulates the South,
- Tee. ,l,,,,c ~, gtfho ,rrn o-,r..3v - rr,
pletion Of the line from Mazatlan to the
Rio Grande, and thence to the Mississippi
And yet the Texan Legislature hesitates and
talks idly about invoking courts to settle
pure question Of statesmanship. Sheridan,
quite as properly. interfered in the local
government Of Louisiana as would courts
in the matter Of building, nop or nezt year
or aes,r, the international road to San An
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

y made. They point in two directions and
are commonly deemed equivalent TO con
fessions Of guilt. Austin is the STATES
MANS home. The STATESMAN will
be published here while the Capitol lifts its
imposing front above the busy city. What
eveT enriches Austin and western and east
ern and central counties Of Texas s,and ag-
grandizes the whole State, multiplies its
population and converts desert wastes into
smiling farms and gardens, Is earnestly ad-
vocated by the srATEsNAx. No more GER
tain and effective agency Of good was ever
dreamed of than this railway line, travers-
ing the entire State from northeast to south
west, and linking two oceans and two en-
pires together. These plain facts pFofered
bribes which We accepted. Texas bought
US. The price agreed to be paid is GER
tainly not less than fifty millions to be
added by the road to the value of property
and q further sum is involved in the per-
petual unity of the State We have made eur
home. The international road perfects the
Solidarity" Of Texas forever. For all
practical purposes, when this road and its
necessary branches are built, Texas will be
no broader than Connecticut and as thor
oughly homogeneous in interests, habits and
aspirations of its people.
Thus newspapers that love Texas, and
having intelligence enough to appreciate
the necessities of the State and results of
railwly construction and of the mainte-
nance of unspotted public faith--thus have
newspapers been 5ribed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
NO. &c

pointed a subcommittee to consider and
report ut an early date.
Statesmen, everywhere, confess the a6-
solute necessity Tor the construction Of
the southern Paeife Texas. through every
newspaper aud in speeches OF all party lead
ers, demands the construction Of the road.
It has been loaded with wealth by
Texas, and vet, when it is proposed
to have q contract executed at once, which
cannot cost over SO, 600, 600. and will double
the resources Of the State aud beget every
conceivable good anticipated by Tom Scott
as the result OF the building Of the South
ern Pacific, men hesitate and look about for
some trifing pretext that they may evade
action upon the proposition to extend the
international across the State. They would
send it to the courts, and the courts send it
back to the Legislature, and it is absolutely
proposed again to toss it over to the courts,
and the Governor must again appoint an
other judge, and some other side issue viii
turn up on top, and the road viii again
flop over on the Legislature, tall death
closes the scene and the curses Of the whole
country rest upon the lawgivers of Texas.
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GO SLOW.

The Dallas Commercial says ''the country
most needs money at cheap rates to help
our agricultural industry, and create
manufactures, y and then the Commercial
very strangely says that the State Constitu-
ton should invest courts with the power
''to adjudicate deeds of trust" Who,
then, will lend money on real estate If
the lender knows that when his money is
due the matter may be thrust into chsncery,
he will never be lender, but send his
money to- st. Louis, where the law is not
the guardian of supposed fools, and people
make their own contracts and the law only
compels honest execution. In the case sup
posed and desired by the Commercial, the
court of chancery is to be invoked to pre-
vent the prompt performance of the con-
tract Laws should let people make their
own trades, in their own way, and on their
own terms, and never interfere except to
protect idiots and minors. Real estate
should be as reedily transferable as horses,
and then energy aud hard work and indus
try would not be forced to fight absurd and
unjust and unequal codes, as we'll as pow
erty, when ascending heights on which
wealth and aristocracy have entrencbed
themselves, in the Old World, by means of
just such laws as the Commercial approves.
That government is best that governs least,
and that Constitution is best which leaves
Legislatures and counties and people freest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
TSOR SAFE

one Of The anest stock farms IN the stats Of sxas
11 fof health and beauty Of sifuaton not 10 - sur
..lea ms Falu4ble property Il IN Hays eounfy on
re ol-nco ritefs between hountdn Csty and saf
A4rces, On the San Antonio road about fuenfv-tI-o
ial4, with Al the stock and improvements; 600 acfs
wen incio1eo WITH GOne and cedar fence Tor paarnre
ne baneo rhnnin nearly through the centre None
aa % Z Ia the state Four hundred acres splendid
ltll N hgh cultivation not surpassed IN production
abundance OF timbcr-eim, hackbcrry, liIo oak and
-lnlts ana ems hundred and dfty acres enclosed
mere are hfty buildings the premises; various pens
tor ropng and handling stock; there are 800 head OF
tAttie, ron one-haf 20 fuil-blOoded Durham; from
t9o hundred sud nfy 10 three hundred head of eras
earle; nfteen 20 twenty yoke Of oxen; 100 head OF
Anlencan horses and mulca; two hne Jacks: ten 70
hiteen WoI mules and horses; wagons full and con-
pcte stock 81 Agricultural Implements reapers corn
en1 cotton planters, threshcrs, ETC.; and gFiat
mills, ahnsle machine, two cotton gins, turning lathe
etc, b water power Afforded b. the Blanco river
ana every convenience and comfort, II situated
high hiili has commanding view OF the surrounding
country, and has bot 70 be seen 10 be admired.
II any one or more persons wish 20 engage IL the
stock business, with ali the advantages nov Il tho
time 20 get q lrHt-class stock farm, where nav be
rarod the hnest booded stock In tbs country and An
tntersing man who would engage IN Il could get his
own price IN this and the neighboring SfGfes a.
bloOded stock Il much needed and sought after
Any person wishing TO purchase this place win com
municaie with me b. letter In person, and will
take great pleasure In showing the property. For
terms, apply 70 ~. B. SWRENEY frr
Real Estate and Collecting Agent,
auo fostofnce Box i0I. Austin. Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

WE understand that "Pidge" has gotten
himself into some little trouble down in
Dewitt county in consequence of some
typographical errors in his last letter pub
lished in the STATESMAN. The editor Of
the Cusro Star, therefore, went for him
with a most sarcastic pen. We do not
know whether it will get up rebellion
or not, but We are,in state of anxiety
about ''Pidge, and hasten to shoulder all
responsibilities He wrote something, in
the shape of hen scratches, abeut "eighty
men, and the types converted this valua-
bic piece Of information into s'eight men, .
Things are conducted in no small style
down in Dewitt. The people take pride
in maintaining such character, and hence
the trouble into which our correspondent
has drifted. Hands should be shaken all
around.
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local or other government.


THERE was a noisy mob gathered in the
gallery of the Louisiana House of Repre-
sentatives which the sergeaAt-at-arms could
not disperse The Democratic Speaker,
Wilt, sent for soldiers to remove the
throng. This was all very well aud no one
could object or complain. These soldiers,
thus employed, were simply adjuvants of
the sergeAnt-at-arms of the House-an
armed posse used by proper authority to
keep the peace. When, however, Sheri
dan, Federal soldier, sent armed men to
expel five members, and these recognized as
members, from the floor of the House, and
this, too, in contraventIon of the Speakers
orders, there is no longer patriot who can
fail to denounce the latter act however uni
versally the first must be approved. Sberi-
dan seeks by the supposed parallelism Of
the two incidents to defend his conduct.
It only happens that there is nc parallelism,
and his action is indefensible save upon the
simple ground that he is simply fool.
Mr.. Speaker Wiltz was clothed by the coun-
try's laws with authority to do what he did
and duty commanded it Gen. Sheridan
had and could have no authority for his
acts He Hefepresents force-despotism; Mr..
Wiltz's soldiers represented law and order
and civil authority. Sheridan personates
only. brute force in government and was
legislating with the bayOnet; Mr. Wilt,
with the gavel. That both used machines,
sometimes called soldiers, invests their acts
with no similitude as a question of legal
right or wrong. sis -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

ceLEsBY, president of the First National
Link of New Orleans, is pronounced by
the Texas papers, una pOce, the champion
liar OF America. He is the fellow ''of in
finite JEST who stated that New Orleans is
more prosperous now than at any period for
thirty-ive years. oglesby has fourished.
He has been Radical barnacle, and grew
rich, of course, as the people became poor
Let oglesby,s name live immortal. New
Orleans fourishes as never before, when, q
few weeks ago, there were seven thousand
houses in the withered city labelled s'For
Rent . when the whole property of the
whole State, sold at auction for cash, would
not discharge its debts and those Of its
corporations: when the President of the
United States lends his name and Office TO
the purposes of those who so bedaub the
fame Of the people that civilized men
turn away with horro- when the
word ''Louisiana" is uttered. Grants
modest falsehoods, in his false message to
Congress, are derived from the selfish ssser-
tions Of just such men as this stupendous
liar, paid to lie by the position he holds
and by those whose trucking servant he
has ever been. There should be erected in
each Southern capital black monument to
the genius Of falsehood-the curse Of the
South, and truth would be revereDced,
even here, as never before How sad the
reflection that at this hour, in the Federal
capital, lie is more potent than unvar-
nished truth The genius of lies Is an
ofice-seeking and ofiice-enriched carpet
bagger blackened By association with the
negro, the foremost victim Of remorseless
liara
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
THR WHITE LEAGuR


1t is now shown. even by Republican
testimony and confessions, that the White
League of New Orleans is only an associa-
ton Of the best citizens OF the place, or
ganized and meeting and ever acting pub
licly, to protect the city, as far as possible
by peaceful agencies, against the intolera-
bic rogueries of thieves invested with Office
by stupid. negroes. These associations, un
der different names exist in most Southern
towns and cities. In some of these the
white rabble has been absolutely bought by
promises of plumber, and the white leaders
of the negro mob have compacted blacks
and whites, and the besotted alliance reigns
and practices terrific robberies. Therefore,
bankrupted whites abandoned savagely gov
erned towns and counties, and therefore these
horrible municipal governments are even
more intolerable than the foreign despo-
tisms of Kellogg or Ames. Everywhere in
the older States, wherever the peculiar
charms Of Texas are mentioned, that which
is first presented and renders. the country
most attractive is the simple fact that this
of ours, in its local and State administra.
ton, is white mans government 1t can
only be maintained assuch in its purity and
in all its Incompatible attractiveness by the
restriction of the right OF suffrage in CDR.
posations, counties and tewns, to free
holders. a
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

Mr.. PLUMB, agent in Mexico of the In.
ternational Railway, as stated in a letter
from the City of Mexico, written by the
special correspondent of the New OrIean.
Picayuae, has accomplished at last the pur.
pose of his mission. The Picayune says
che has secured the execution of contract
with the Mexican government by which the
International obtains subvention Of
SIS, 600 per mile" The construction Of the
road from MazatIan and the City Of Mex
leo to the Rio Grande is thus assured,
and in order to have the wealth OF
the Orient difused over Texas, and
force through the heart Of the State the
traffic and travel between the two oceans,
it is only nOedful for Texas to be hOnes as
well as wise, and execute at once the con-
tract, in good faith, with the international
Railway Company. To fail in this would
be a crime against American civilization
and progress, and absolute treason to the
cities and towns and people Of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
THE UNION DESTROYED AND
ALECK sTEPHENS'S PHILOSOPHY

ALECK STEPHENS'S PHILOSOPHY.
Abraham Lincolnis adherents after his
first election to the Presidency, were wont
to say that Southern Democracy had held
Office and welded supreme power 50 long
in the Federal Union. that when elected
they rushed to Montgomery and duplicated
and seized the very places they had sud
denly and most unexpectedly lost. Repub-
liean politicians have never ceased 10 give
this exposition of the action of Southern
secession leaders and SINCE they eompre-
hend the motives of others so well, they
must reason from ascertained facts. They,
too, have reigncd continuously everywhere,
not only in Northern, but through their
black slaves in Southern. States. They have
gathered wealth as no class OF men have
ever done before. They have rloted in
opulence and Offices They were, too, alb
solute kings in the South cutting Cuffee
at wlll and rioting in robbery and wrong.
They viii never surrender supreme power
in America without resorting to every APP
pliAnce Of lznavery or force to render ejec-
tion impossible. Grant and Sheridan are
the proper agents Of desperadoes. Sturdy,
dogged persistsncy and tenacity Of purpose,
and recklessness Of human life. and Of all
sacrifces demanded in the attainment Of a
fixed object in life make Grant an admira-
bic agent Of ambitious, selfish men, OF
whom Morton is the embodiment, and dex-
trous, dirty John Logan the inapersona-
ton. Sheridan, brainless daring, reck-
less Irishn,an, Is the ct agent Of Grant.
He, Ike his master, knows no law, moral
OF civic, and is only sonlless soldier, IS
unthinking as the bayonet on which Louis
lana Is impsled. About these terrible men,
welding imperial treasures and governing
banks and bopdholdefs and taria monges
and sixty thousand oficeholdcrs, the rock-
les. selfah. ambitious Radical politicians
arc gathered. There is no crime they wiz
no1 commit. no treason they win not plot,
40 perjury they win not compsss no law Of
God Or man they vii not defy. 70 assure
the p1ollaclion of power. Grant and Sheri-
dan age not acting blindly or nom any sud-
den impulse, Or. Is alleged ii dispatches
thi, morning, ignprantly. The third term
-the cmplle--or . Voo3.yard and horse
stable and descent % 1.five liltlcas.s. r
not Is osi7inal ob.,nrily. 80 ne silsrrs-
tiroa ne Who h11 rIIse cent 4, is 10
csrnfh 1etlh sha, osr b'na
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
NOW On NRvKR.

The International Railroad question. II
left open or turned over to the courts, viii
drive doEn wedges between wings Of the
Democratic party, and, worse than THE,
between the great divisions Of the State.
They are faithless to Che best interests Of
the whole State Of Texas, in our modest
opinion, who evade, BY any resource Of
genius or force, the immediate legslatrve
settlement Of tic International Iaslroad
question.
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laurels about his brow, will not hesi-
tate, with or without such pretexts as
were found at yicksburg and New Orleans,
to overthrow all laws, defy all dangers aud
makea all sacrifices. A war with Spain might
fail to protract Grants supremacy and only
a war among the States, the destruction Of
local governments in the South, the utter
Acknowledgement Of Southern people-these
are ends to be eonsummated. Grant and
Sheridan have only evolved the prelude to
a story Of wrong and outrage which may
yet constitute the blackest and bloodiest
pages in all the annals of human ambition,
sslfshness and crime.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

BISMARCK and Governor Coke concur in
advising the education Of the children of
Che State by the State. Bismarck would
substitute, too, the State for the Church,
and the Emperor for the Pope, and, through
State education, s'the familyp is to be lost
in the State. The State. the King, is every
thing; the NAN, the household, nothing
For all that, Bismarck is monarchist, be-
lieving in the divine right Of kings; Gov
ernor Coke, a republican, believing in the
divine rights of the people. Bismarck
gains his point by the same agencies in
Europe that Governor Coke would employ
to perfect republican institutions in Amer
lea. Both may be wise; but it is curious.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
A RAILROAD LETTER FROM WASH
INGTON.

The friends Of tho International, and
they are surely the truest friends of Texas
and the South, became even more earnest
in behalf of the success of this road when
shown a letter last evening from Con.
gresham, in which it was stated that be
.'had no hope of seeing scott's Southern
Pacific Railroad bill enacted II
this scheme fail, il Congress refuse to give
the South tithe of what has been. .lavished
upon the Central and Union Pacific roads,
it only remains for Texas to come to the
rescue of the south, and, by the trihing
concession asked by the International com,
pany, assure the construction OF Southern
road from ocean to ocean across Texas and
the Southern States.
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: AND FOR SALE.

splendid farm Of sixteen hundred aeres of land,
with All the improvements; sx hundred enclosed
with good cedar rail and stone fence two hundred Of
which Il IN cultivation. "A never failing stream Of
water on the tract for stock; dne peach orchard;
tWo-stoFy gtons dwelling, well 1nished forty-eight
feet 'front.' nEe reoma i6xi6 wide hall and double gal
leryi stone milk house and kitchen; well Of splendid
water N the yardi stone granary and stables with
good Wen, furnishing an abuEdanco Of water iOf
stock good post OAK and live oak timber in sufficient
quantity 70 supply the farm FOR an tme the bssr Oh
rock for building and fencing. No better farming
land o. Be ter fer STOCK IN the State This farm Is
situated In the county Of Williamson I've miles west
from Liberty Hill, twenty miles west from George
town, IN beautiful aud healthy country. For
further information spply TO
~. B. SWBENEY,
Austin, Texas, P..O. Box IN.
Iitc perfect MOI div Wtf
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REUTERIZE HIM.

The special dispatch from Washington to
the N6.cs, stating that Grant had sent an
apologetic message to Congress repudiating
Sheridan's acts, was as grieyous blunder
as that perpetrated by Reuters Washington
agent upon the London Times when London
was made to believe that Grant had declared
war against Spain. The Times at once dis
charged Baron Reuter-, and the Neus should
swell little, ape the great Thunderer, and
blow up that telegraphic correspondent at
Washington. 1t cannot be said that this is
none of our business. Tho dispatch to the
Neacs was instantly transmitted by telegraph
to the STATESMAN, and our condition was
that of ecststic felicity. Several of our
friends 'took drinks all round" and
cons graduated the country that Grant,
after all, was rather patriot than
wooden-headed, iron-handed soldier.
All these coed people slept well that
night and the Christians of them
thanked God at the family altar that free
dom had not shrieked finally when Louisi-
ana fell. Yesterday morning, when the
truth burst upon the country that Grants
message to Congress is an adroit defence of
Sheridan and an outright approval of in
tolerable enormities done by the vain, vlo-
lent, ruthless soldier in command at New
Orleans, our readers were sorely grieved
and faith in the fortunes of freedom in
America was rudely shaken. The Neacs
must blow up that Washington correspond
ent-Reuterize him-root him out.
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The seattle drives 20 Kansas win be
very light this year. Very few "droves"
50 from The Gonzales district. DDworth 3
Litilefeld drive ten thousand, gathered
from the country west Of the San Antonio
river. The people are wen pleased that aP-
proachingrailusy systems have put = period
TO this original mode Of trnnsieTing csttle
% Market and as only exssPeratsd when
they rad of the conduct q thoso Who
having al they coull ask of The stats
Of Texas. win concsas 70 The West not
even the sztunaionoi TIE Intsrnntio1a- +
isa foul shaus and insulIsrabl, vscuE