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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
HOW THE WARS OF THE NEWSPA-
PERS HAVE ENDED.

1t is very difficult to hammer the idea
into the average head of the average hab-
itual lifelong organ-grinder that the
STATESMAN is designed to be printed as a
Democratic newspaper for the Democratic
people of Texas. Its readers are its own.
1t is their organ and not the organ of any
party leader or of any combination of these
leaders. For its very independence, it has
been bitterly assailed and simply because
its mode of action was different from that
of the great number of ''organs" that never
dare to think for themselves and when per
chance they do, they blow and rosr about
it as if something wonderful had happened.
The last authoritative platform of the DEM
ocratic party was enacted at Baltimore. He
who confines himself to its scope is still q
true Democrat and very certainly this can
be, for Southern journalist, no difficult
task. In fact liberalism. Is the policy of
the Democratic party. The doorway to
its Holy of HOLES must be opened very
widely if, in the next Presidential contest
when Grant viii surely be the candi-
date, of Radicslism, it may win certain
victory. Grant will be nominated because
his name is the equivalent of six hundred
thousand negro votes, of sixty-fiye thousand
ofice-holders, and of the six votes con-
trolled by each. The word 'sGrant" also
wields the strength of two Thousand ma
tional banks and of the holders of two
Thousand millions of Federal bonds with
money enough to buy and suspend half
the newspapers of the United States.
In view of these plain and startling facts,
1t has occurred to US that he is truest, in
this iuncture of political affairs, to the
Democratic party who is most liberal and
provides for the greatest possible number
Of accessions to its available voting force.
Itmay be very well to make obedience to
John Ireland's DEGREES the test of Demo
cratic fidelity in Texas; but the party in
convention must so decide before this Pope
oE Grand lIogul, or his llustrious horn
blowers here, IN Houston or at Waco, are
with authority to eject members
from the party or to claim for themselves
the exclusive merit and privileges Of church
membership. 1t would be well for them
to prove the divine origin Of the priest be-
fore whom they bow and make penitent
confessions before they uDchurch those who
dare to worship the god Of Democracy in
their own way and under their own vine
and Eg tree. The curse Of the churches. Of
the country and Of Legislative bodies and of
the press is selfshness Of opinion Differ
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
PROGRESS OF DsMocRAoY.


+ The New York bondholders' organs de-
ride maliciously the platform adopted by
the Democracy of Pennsylvania at Erief
The infiationists constituted majority o.
the convention, and an exaggerated Ohio
platform, after stormy and protracted de-
bate, was carried. Thus Pennsylvanis
stands side by side with Ohio. Manton
Marble, breathing flame and full of demo-
niaeal hate of greenbacks, has gone to Syr-
acuse with John Morrissey and the great
lights Of Tamnany, to make State Demo
cratic platform for New York. On this
currency question the contrsctionists VIII
probably win the day, and on this issue, IN
less share Of wisdom be injected into the
councils of the party, it viii be beaten as
disastrously as in 1872. Why discuss
. question in reference to which
concurrence Of opinion is impossible,
which can never constitute, in any OF Its
present aspects. Distinguishing feature Of
Democracy or Of RepubIicanism- Either
the Marion Marble or Bill Allen theory may
be approved, and Texas, caring not the toss
.of copper, On election-day. viii still vote
the Democratic ticket By greater majority
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

from another even as TO the moral and in
tellectaal virtues of a cLurchman or states
man, and this difference is fatal even 20
relations of personal friendship In con
duct and feelings of this sort we can have
neither concurrence nor sympathy, and
while we have been assailed vehemenlly by
those paid to perform the task and de-
nounced by others who know no better,
they have concurred in advertising us most
extensively, and to this extent We are CRATE
full. They have left US in very tranquil
frame of mind, and we cannot remember
that the most violent of our assailants or
the coarsest of them have ever disturbed
for one moment our tranquility. We
have maintained perfect serenity, even
when the most brutal of our sssailants have
exhausted their ferocity, and with perfect
and unaffected good humor have awaited
the restoration of reason and good temper
The success that has attended this policy of
the STATESMAN will surely serve as valua-
bic lesson to the vain-glorious and boastful
and tend to the promotion of decency in
Journalism and free thinking in public and
private life.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

Coon housewives, accustomed to use Shs-
ker preserves and pickles, garden seeds and
apple sauce, will be sorry 10 learn that the
shakers are all dying, and since they do not
intermarry the sect becomes extinct. They
receive children from foundling hospitals
and orphans, but when these have matured
they are apt TO prefer the wicked ways OF
this vain world, and the community of ssap-
pie sarse" is abandoned. The oneidacotn-
munists. practice strange sort OF marriage
and families multiply rapidly These need
no aecessions from the exterior world, but
il occurs to us that the little homeless way
farers and boot, backing tramps multiply
ing rapidly in towns and villages of the
South might well be sent TO Shaker villages.
Habits Of industry would surely be acquired
and it is said, however other religionists
may contemn the Shakers and oneidas, that
no convict in any state prison ever emana.
ted from either of these dwelling-places of
sobrlety and industry. To labor was the
heaven-ordaihed law, and they who obey II
are most perfectly blest in this and in the
life to come.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
HOW TO ORGANIZES THE COURTS
10 SAVE THE UNITY OF TExAs.


II white people alone were voters, and
one-third of the towns and counties OF
Texas were not subordinated to negro dom
inahon, there would be men, honest and
patriotic and LOVING Texas and telling sssid-
uously tn assure the State,s prosperity, who
would prefer the appointment of judgesib iby
the Legislature and Governor. To separate
the Judiciary from political Influences and
compel the conformation Of their decisions
to the law and testimony rather than have
them bent before popular or partisan preju-
diees, is the purpose Of those who would
at all times and in all countries have the
Judiciary appointed by the chief magistrate
Of the State and approved by the senate
and House. acting as one body. II this
mode Of electing judges gave ms in former
years Sapr-me Court reports thatare. still
Tevered By learned lawyers, while those of
modern times are eontemned II, in for
mer age, when Judges were appointed, We
had everywhere fearless and incorruptible
Judiciary, there may be basis Of wisdom
in the conducf Of those who dare
TO despise demagogism and propose
the creation for Texas OF a buiwark
for popular rights held By those whom
party leaders caa never mollify. and the
mob never Intimidate- II such ends be
attainAhle. BY such agencies. sFenin states
governed wholly By white men, how inEln-
itely more inpoEtznt becomes resort to.the
governor ana legislature for popular security
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
= rnoroenAraEn WANTED.

Texas has produced In politics incompara-
Bile knaves. In any event their splendid moral
and intellectual virtues were developed in
Texas, and their infamy is locally immortal
and inseparabIe from the history Of the for
tunes Of the magnificent commonwealth.
It is terrible fate, this of having ones
name and deeds piIlOried to everlasting
infamy, while on brilliant background
there is written, in letters of ineffaceahle
splendor, the story Of Texan glory and
greatness achieved By men like Houston
and Rusk. How contemplate the selfish
spseulatosand adventurer, even when he
stands alone; but when his name and crimes
are contrasted with the honorable achieve
ments of Texan statesmen and heroes, there
is degradation unparalleled. and in
fanny that IS meAsureless ard lit
tleness imponderable. Some one CON
Yerzant with the lives and origin and
history Of the many adventurers, who,
through negro stupidity, were enabled to
prey upon the people Of Texas, should en-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
EX-SENATOR AND EDITOR BROWN.
Low AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

Ex-senator Brownlow's paper thinks that
the purpose of the recent disturbances in
Mississippi is the diffusion of such terror
over the State that the blacks will not ap-
pear at the polls. On the contrary the
Democratic press and orators of Mississippi
have been preaching peace and concord
and unity and the absolute obliteration of
the color line. Surely the ex-senator is
mistaken when announcing the cause of the
collisions. Politics have no more influence
than religion in begetting bloodshed.u We
can remember when red and white men
failed to live together even In Mississippi
in peace, and these red men were Choctaws,
the most peaceful and kindly of the ''abo-
| riginies,n Why should whites and blacks
coalesce more readily 2 The evil if it be
an evil, has origin in incurable,and ineradi-
cable instincts and prejudlces of races, and
partisanship or party selfishness and .abhor-
ence of negro masters, all take shape from
the simple fact that the two races cannot
and will not and should not live together
on terms of social and personal and polit-
ical equality. When the editor of the Reg
lister was Governor of Tennessee and the
negro had not become the motive power of
Radicalism and the bloody shirt was not its
blazing banner, then the editor was a
statesman and wisely proposed the gradual
coflocation of the blacks in State or Ter
ritory or district of their own.' White immi-
grants would take the places they abandoned
| even as whites whom they supplant in Missis-
sippi find homes in Texas and other white
mems States. When Senator Brownlow, thu
whole people of the whole country concur.
ring, pronounced against the civil rights
act as impossible, wrongful and absurd,
that other question was also settled, that
the two races could not live together on the
same plane in the same community. Ex
termination of one or the other race, speedy
or gradual, is the sure result of the strug
giles of competition, and they alone are theil
friends who would colonize blacks.
While in local elections In Texas negroe.
vote as race and not as political thinkers
and thus counties and towns are ravaged
by thieves whom they clothe- with, office
in general elections they have here littls
| power, andigin these contests manifest
little interest. II suffrage, in local elec
tions, were restricted as we have proposed
the negro, as an agent Of public evil o
cause of poverty, would be no more. Nov
he looks to Grant confidently, and is belhg
erent and aggressive. When Grant goei
out Of Office the negro as political force
save in town and county elections, in thi
State is defunct. But the Knoxville Chron
icis should reproduce the Governors mes
sage of 1865, and Editor Brownlow should
adhere to. the policy propolnded by Gov
efnor, Brownlow, and never forget tha
white Immigrants will enter the Gulf States
pari passu as black emigrants vacate them
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23


THE ''noiseless panic, as they call II in
New York, is daily assuming larger proper.
tions and ruthlessly pursues its,work. Fore
closures of mortgages are of hourly occur
renee in that city, uud values of real estate
continually shrink. The savings banks and
insurance companies keep the.auetioneerss''q
hammers incsssantly rattling, and, like all
other corporations, do not allow the word
mercy to flit athwart their souls, No ex, I
tensions are gwen, and hundreds Of fami- 4
lies are weekly driven from their homes, y .
is now reported by real estate men in New,
York that the average decline in the ,priee.
of city property is fully fifty per. cent,
1t is. this state of facts that begets q revolq--
ton in New York and throughout the East
in favor of the expansion theories OF the
Ohio Democracy, and every financial fact
would lead us to believe that in the ONO
election Democracy will win an pppresera e
dented victory. aiT .sm'aia yisno.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
why mHN BLAoxEN rnE,1sELvEs.

In one of a dozen instances in which
white men and negroes have been killed in
collisions between the races in Mississippi.
the whites have improperly attended negro
meetings, and supposed white men have
participated in negro debates conducted
before negro assemblies. The whites who
haye done this deserve to be knocked on
the head, and Sambo is right. Whenever
he finds an alleged white man drifting
about in negro churches or in negro politi-
teal assemblies, the negro should know
that such white man, whatever his posi-
tion or abilities, is worse than thief.
| He assumes 10 be negro with white skin
and is only a wolf In sleeps clothing.
He absolutely hates himself for what he
does, and, when he comes out privately
cOnfesses his contamination and boasts
among dirty Officeseeekers like himself of
the successful fraud he has practiced upon
the innocent blacks. Negroes in Missis-
sippi are sired of these shams and when a
white rogue comes into one of their assem-
blies his life is hardly worth the having. 1t
is proper enough, and we don't see why the
newspapers complain, or why the New York
World condem Gov. Ames, who refused
20 intervene IN Vicksburg when the races
we're abont to collide an that city. Ames is
veritAble negro. When canvassing the
State against Alcorn he ate and slept with
negroes. HIS wife abhcrs his practices, as
she must if they occupy, after one OF his
japnts into the country, the same apart
ments. Ames has seen even how he is sus-
pected by the blacks of insincerity,. and
knows well enough that the coexistenee of
the races, as laws ara now operative, on
terms of equality is simply impossible. He
was not, as the New York World supposes.
simply Indifferent when he knew many ne
groes would be slaughtered, and be was not
simply desireus of adding ghastly stains to
the reeking, bloody shirt constituting his
party banner in the North, but Ames was
conscious that forty or fifty dead men, more
or less, in such system of society and gov
ernment, signify nothing. 1t is only a
question of time. The races. must be sepa-'
rated. or one be subordinated to the other,
or one or the other slowly but surely exter-
minated. '' 80 .-i" ~HH : 4
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

GES. JOE JOHNSTON having accepted the
Office Of commander-in-chief Of Egyptian
armies, we may suppose that he will use
his high Office to retrieve misfortunes that
have befallen the South. The Rhedive il
the greatest cotton-grower and plantation
owner in the world. Alcorn and Others
like him, in the lowIands of the Mississippi,
with their thousands OF black poems. are
mere trifilers in the business. The Khedive
is greatly in want Of praeticed cotton-pro-
ducers, and Joe Johnston will devise means
Of reducing broad districts Of Southern
Egypt 70 order; the sea may be made to
flow back into the Desert OF sahara; arte-
sian wells may be bored, and wide districts
made arabIe. ssoId Joe' will enter into
negotiations with Ames and Grant, the pres
ext owners Of rhs masses Of negroes, for
their .sextradition" and transfer TO their
original home in Africa; Brownlow win be
in ecstaries. and the old original scheme Of
the good Colonization Society. to which
Liberia owes everything, vail Al last bare
all its aims Of bene6cence consummated.
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in a commonwealth like this, in which the
richest districts may be utterly destroyed as
abodes Of civilization if proper judiciary
be not assured. Will northern couuties be
harmed if Gov. Coke, the Senate and House
approving his selections, designate Judicial
officers for each district The Governor is
good lawyer, and has measured the intel
lectual, moral and professional worth of
each distinguished member of the bar, aud
would never commit bIunder; but the peo-
pie have often blundered, sadly blundered,
and intentionally blundered, if negroes
and their leaders be psrt OF the ''people. !"
Such blunders are fatal. Life and prop
erty and personal rights become
insecure and next after the supreme
power Of this incapable rabble in county or
corporate elections nothing is Sd ruinous to
property or destructive of social order and
personal security as an incapable or cor
rupt judiciary. There are, possibly, other
modes of selecting judges by which SOUTH
ern and eastern districts of Texas may be
spared the presence of villains and adventl
turers on the bench, without invoking the
Governors Intervention; but if these be non
approved there is no intelligent patriot III
Texas, in or out of the Oranges, who viii.
not gladly surrender his right to vote fol
judges in northern. counties in order te
save from absolute ruin those of the snuth'e
The very same facts pertain to the protect
ton of Southern corporations. Those o.
the north must come to the rescue of thbi
south; otherwise the long-continued unitE
of Texas is neither possible will it bt
deemed desirable. Northern Texas lose.
nothing but gains everything, by render J,
ing local freedom both possible and desirai
BILE in Southern Texas. II
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
DR. e. Rf'LANE'S
Celebrated American
Worm SPECIFIC,
snsnsrfi mf OR
YER M FUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
THE countenance is pale and
leaden-colored, with occasional
hushes, or circumscribed spot on
one or both cheeks; the eyes become
dull; the pupils dilate; an azure
semicircle runs along the lower eye
lid !, the nose is irritatsd, swells, and
sometimes bleeds; swelling of the
upper lip occasional headache, with
humming or throbbing of the ears /;
an unusual secretion of saliva Shiny o.
or fnrrsd tongue; breath very foul,
particularly in the morning appetite +.
variable, sometimes voraoious, with Al s
gnawing sensation of the stomach, at
Others, entirely gone; aeeting pains
in the stomach; OCCASIONAL nausea
and Vomiting; violent pains through
out the abdomen; bowels irregular,
at times costive; stools Shiny, not
unffequently tinged with blood belly
swollen and hard; urine turbid; re-
spiration occasionally difficult, anf.
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; un-
easy and disturbed sleep, with grind
ing Of the teeth; temper variable,
but generally irritable, etc. 5toH ef' 3
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist, 'i'' ,3i'l
DR. c. M,LANE'S XERMIFUGE
90 Will certainly efecta cure. hhHT
The universal success which has
attended the administration of this
preparation has been such as to war
rant US in pledging ourselves to the
public to .,ves.-.,r 5.l
RETURN THE MONEY
in every instance where il should
prove Intellectual; providing the
symptoms attending the sickness of
the child or adult should warrant the
supPosition of worms being the
cause" In all cases the Medicine
TO be given IN STRICT AccoRDANcE
yiTH THE Direct oNs.- 7 '''',l' (.
We pledge 2 liselyes TO the public.
thas id h.B0w saksI ~ baH .sjsii'
DIR. c. M'Lane'S. .Iefmifuge
DOES NOT coNTkfN MERCURY
in any form; and that it is an; ipno-
cent preparation, not eapa6le Of aSi1s
tie slightest iRill,Y to tie mosk ksnGtr-
i9taat, Address all orders to o1
FLEMING BROS, PITTSBURGH, PA.
p. s. Dealers and Physicians ordering from
others ,han Fleming Bros, will do well to write
their orders distinctly, and take Aans 6st Or, c,
ELGEFs, fystsrsfky F7rSFiss Byss ,pffts5zyek.
"a. 10 those Wishing to give them Rtual, we Will
forward per mad, post paid to any uart of The d,
United States. one box Of Pills for twelve three
rent pcst,ge stamps, or one vial Of vermiinre for
fourteen three-eent stamps An orders frpm Canasia
must be accompanied by twenty CENTS extra
vss- lor sale hy druggists and Country Store
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balm their names ana deeds forever. Marks
should gather pictures of the knaves TO
constitute historical rogues' gallery, that
if another revolution, in long years yet 20
come, must sweep over the land, posterity
may beware of villains in whose names and
faces the story of outrage and theft and of
Dayis's Mameluke cavalry may be perpetu-
ated- Texas is not singular in having suf-
fered at the hands of unblushing adven-
turers. In Alabama the capacity of the
South to produce remorseless tyrants and
conscienceless perjurers has been painfully
illustrated. Just now az q rHhtitIess repre-
\ sentative of this most hideous class Of pro
ducts spewed up from the foul maw, of in
ter-s,ate war, one Alexander White Of Sci
ma becomes splendidly conspicuous. H
was of the convention of, 1865, was abso
lutely ferocious in denunciation of thos
who then proposed to abolish slavery. III
then called upon Gods thunders to blaf
him if ever he proved recreant to the Lot
Cause, and in 1867 urged the people of Al
'bama to spit upon the reconstruction aci,
immediately after going oyer to the Radicl
party. Last year this man was defeated b
fifteen thousand votes when he sought re
election to Congress, and this, coupled wit
the facts that he voted for the force bill
made the last speech for it. and was-it
author, sufficed to commend him to Grant
gratitude. White has been appointed Chic
Justice of Utah, and in honors thus awarded
I the matchless traitor to truth and principle
and to Goa and country, we discover how
valueless and needless, in q land governed
like this, is common decency and common
honesty, soulless soldier welding SUI
preme power.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

THE Michael Angelo quadro-centennial,ss ssm
held sat Rome, and continuing three days,s7a
commencing on the tenth instant, was yeryooS
largely attended by distinguished Italiaus'ns
and foreigners. Services OF an imposlDgin1
character were held at his tomb, audgmonbua
ument inaugurated in a beautiful square tosEa
bear his name. For nearly four centufieA1an'
Michael Angelo has held the foremost fAineno1
as painter and sculptor, and the intervening 70
generations of artists have failed 10 produce 'di
his peer in the perfection Of painting orisoI
marble. The great Cathedral, st. Peters Of an
Rome, is his proudest monument, and itsl "a
walls are full of his spirit and inspiration,aoJ
throwing around lightan splendof lshithSeq
flash eternaIly through the world. = n,sd esAa
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THE new Atlantic cable will be ,used5 10
for the first time tomorrow, aud will havsssI
great advantage over the old from the soi
fact that dispatches win go direct from Ne4aeo
York to London, and thus avoid the detourra1s
by way Of Nova Scotia on this side ands@f
that from Ireland TO England on the othsrsaas
Besidesa very material cost will saved sod lsls
the time shortened. A lively compctitim bna
is looked for. and reduced rates. Our 0er-fsa
man end French feIIow-citizahs will Be dIecsiq
trihed---with delight. ~. aIeR lai.l
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THE Pope is gong TO put an anathefaai td'
on the Republic OF Ecuador on account Of y
the recent assassination Of that pious SER, =
want of the church, Garcia Moreno Mgr -
Roncetti was appointed nuncio 10 that zAI
country, but the appointment has been se-iiir
scinded. We think his majesty the Pope, 'xca
will in tins behalf commit = great blum %
der, but because we thus differ from Hisncd
Holiness, on this minor question, II does ~
not follow that we are or are not Romanists2g =
This explanation is due 20 the organs 20
round about a. % y5oc1