The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-24

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comes the depository for the wealth Of a
quarter of, the continent. "a. iV
e-fnua9 rT
,s. The sPLENDiP FETuRE. .t
We eaA'E help believing that more
blessed daY than ever knoWn, Is daWning
on the country. Every fact and-ineident Of
progressiEe American history tells that
with the dawning century fresh, unwrit-
ten page is placed before us destined to tell
Of a blessed future. Even in the financial
condition ofthe United States We hnd that
the rciiuent wave OF prosperity IS breaizing
against the shore and bankers and trades
men bend their heads reyerently enough
that the billows may sweep above and be-
yond them. With corn and wheat and
cotton and tobacco promising such har-
vests as were never known, before, with
peace and unity paving the way for perfect
political repose, surely future more cloud
sless was never promised any people There
are States of the South having even stronger
reason than Texas to accept every assur-
anee Of perfect blessedness given by each
bright shadow of the rainbow that spans
the heavens. Their condition cannot be
changeless and cannot be worse. Texas
has never been thoroughly subordinated
to the sway of negro absolutism and
the constitutional convention. may readily
render even the partial or local recur-
renee of this intOlerable calamity i'm
possible, The reproduction of hal
lowed memories and resulting political
consequences are most fortunate for these
wronged and robbed and desolated South
ern States. Grant confessed the force of
unwritten law and Of the patriotic senti-
ment begotten of veneratioR for the names
and deeds of our fathers when forced to
declare that he was not candidate for the
third term. In fact, everywhere, even in
New England, where Wendell Phillips
felicitates the country that there IS g moth
ing" save hlmself, & new under the sun, y,
as in the South, where 6 secessionism " aud
submissionism y were once, almost signifi-
cant of deadly hates as of honest convic-
tions- everywhere fanaticism in poiitics dis
appears and men. differing as widely Us the
poles are asunder still eoncede honesty of
purpose and personal worth. This is the
longest stride ever made by barBarism from
indecency to perfect civilization. 1t is of
greater value to free thought and progress
sive intelligence, aud to absolute, practical
freedom in government and opinion than
redundant crops or than the blessedness of
perfect peace to be evolved from the repro
duction of hallowed, centennial memories.
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THE most atrocious murder ever commit
ted was that done by black savage in
Lowndes county, Mississippi, when hisac-
ccmplice held awhite woman while hefred
a Colts repeater, the bullets penetrating
her face and body. Little children Of the
helpless widow witnessed the deed, and
begged for mercy for the mother The
Iieutenant GoSernor Of Mississippi is ne
gro named DAVIS, and while Ames is in
Boston ''centennializing," Davis, having
pocksted q bribs Of $3.50, pardons these
murderers Of the white woman. sOughtno
the people hang DaVis2 q This negro Davis
is a barber and was Senator Alcorn's body
servant W hen Alecrn led aConfederate reg
iment into Kentucky in 1859. Alcorn, of
course, is cognizant OF Davis's virtues and
weaknesses, and when Davis was candi-
date for the place he now fills, Alcorn as
serted, and Davis dld not deny, that Davis
had been, when in the State Senate, the re-
cipie4t of douceurs for his votes. And yet,
strange as people abroad may think it,
Davis is such good-nat1red rascal and is
so thoroughly eognizaht of the virtues and
foibles of the people, that they have ever
preferred his mastery to that of the cold
blooded little ,adEenturer, Ames. Davis's
roguishnessri is of that description of frailty
which white juries could not be induced to
punish when first negroes were sent to the
penitentiaryl for larceny, 1t could not be
hammered into the head of an average
Southern farmer that theft, when practiced
by cdfee, was crime, but they see it now
very clearly, and hence the eternal black
ness that to-day overshadowsI Southern pen
itentiaries. The conduct of this fellow
Davis shows, however, that Radicalism and
Wendell Phillips are right, and that the ne
gro is progressive. Lieutenant Governor
Davis shows how the model African ascends
from modest ben-roosS performance by
moonlight to the perfect recognition Of the
charms of bribery in Office, even as the saw
age brute who murdered the helpless woman
crowns the story with all the attractiYeness
of demonism made fine art.
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