The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
Addres. Of Lieutsnsps Govsrnor mn.


Honorable Senator's - Another year has
passed with its joys and sorrows its life
and death, since we organized the Senate IN
this Council Chamber. We met then under
untoward circumstances-with the shad-
oW Of hostile arms, threatening 70 drive
this State government from the places Of
power and set at defiance the voice Of a
great people.
Having, under the Providence Of God.
passed in safety through those pcrilous
days of our early history. and having de-
voted your best labors to the State in the
distinguished service rendered by your hcn-
orable body during the first session Of the
Fourteenth Legislature, We have been
vouchsafed the privilege Of meeting to-day
in the peaceful Capitol Of the Common.
wealth, representing, as you do, q million
and quarter Of prosperous and happy peo-
pie. fRen our long line Of frontier was
unprotected by either State or Federal
arms. Now, under your generous iegisla-
ton, our gallant rangers have punished the
savage, protected a thousand miles Of border,
and added q fadeless wrcathof laurel TO the
traditional and historic fame Of Texas arms.
Then our outstanding debt Of millions,
hawked and peddled il the homo and for.
eign markets, a debt Inherited chiefly from
4 former administration, was unproyidod
for in the hands Of our own impoverished
people; non, under a system Of finance.
adopted by your body il unison with the
other branch Of the Legislature, and con-
trolled by faithful and patriotic Execu-
tive, your bonds have been sold almost at
par, your credit restored at homo-and
abroad, our creditors paid, and Texas
standing at this good hour the equal, II
not peerless among all her sister States Of
the Union. Iltsn our judiciary was warped
too often BY political prejudices, Il not
wanting in the pure ermine Of the bench,
from the lowest 70 tho highest courts the
honoFed places Of an illustrious line ol
great iurists filed by doD1esfio Ignorance cf
law or foreign adyentureT8. But aoic, With
few exceptions, judiciary gees II and out
from our temples Of justice who knows thc
Law, and in whose learning and purity q
great people are willing 20 entrust their lib
erty and their lives.
congratulate the Senate upon the wise
and judicious exercise Of the power re-
posed In them BY the Constitulion IN their
combinations Of eminent men, whose tlt1ss.
Quent career, since you last left these halls,
have shown alike the wisdom Of Executive
appointments and Of Senatorial confirms
tions.
To a pure judiciary, more than 70 oll
other departments Of civil government COM
bined, Is any people, whether republicap.
democratic OF imperial, indebted for hep
piness and grand strides IN civilization and
power. Texas thanks you to-day Tor the
honorable part born By your honorabie body
in securing this boon--nced I pursue the
parallel further. congratulaie ysa. eene'
/ tors, not IN the spirit 81 the Piarieeea but
| IN that other revercnt spirit which &C
knowledges God in all things / congfaln.
late ron, repeat, that our State IS lhis day
peaceful, prosperous, happy, through alt
| her broad borders. Thither are coming. ~
Moslems TO their Mecca earth, Thousands IRON
the Old World and the New: fhifheI 1fI
arc coming, our OWn kifh and Kin. from
the States Of our FafherIaDd, more lh1n
two. hundred Thousand per year; from cc
yond shc seas and rivers and conlircni1
they are coming, 20 till our rich lands. 90
breathe cur pure air, 70 develop or great
industries, 70 i've with AZ and. 81 nctdIr,
70 die with us, IN the struggle ior freedom
and the right.
With plenty smiling at or tiI1tshno'a'
with no wolf ct the door. - .s,arFIrg thou
sands as IN this winters cold are 1oH crying
for bread in the great AorthWest: and ~
despot ia our midst and 10 soidlefy 80
trafp IN our civic cauec, We should net
FORGET. nv cOunfrgmen. that Louisiana. eur
own sister Iics at our door b1nired and
crushed and E1anacicd and Ell else d0Hn-
tr0ddcn and stained save her honcf, which S.
e bright as heavens own suDlohf
We win extend 70 her. and niI others H
ike condition. the hand of help and I1o
love Of the great heart Of Texas Ine Nt
hepe, will, on ~ tireless wing. bring 9
and triumph 70 our sisters. Vie he1F
the voice of the American peopIc from TIE
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