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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

the rope with such sudden, terrific force
that every Indian was almost killed by the
violence with which his length was meas
ured on the stony plain. When they slowly
recovered themselves with broken arms and
bruised bodies and looked half consciously
about them the train had fed and was still
flying as if winged with the lightning and
driven BY thundefbolts. 1t shrieked, and
Indians, startled, heard unearthIy peaIs Of
demoniae daughters the earth shook be-
meath the footsteps Of the flying monster,
its great white plume Of smoke nodded and
bent and wreathed itself in graceful clouds
and in awe-struck amusement red savages
beheld god in the tempest of iron and
Ere and in the restless force and ocean-roar
Of the resouading railway train. Never
since have unlettered red men inter
posed distractions to the transit of trains
irom majestic cities on the Mississippi to
that gateway to the land Of gold, through
whose portals the sun sinks to lave its bril-
liant train of speechless splendors in the
waters Of the Western ocean. The locomo-
tive triumphed It has wrought moral
and thorough physical revolutions every
---l.arA---It 10 the foremost pedaGoaua. Of
TIC dge. It inJects pOpulatlons and COM
munities, with all their acquisitions Of
thought and industries and riches, into one
another. 1t civilizes, reforms and educates.
1t is the most effective missionary ever sent
abroad by intelligence and progress. Its
resistless power is confessed even by saw
ages, its benefactions by the mort refined
aad richest of nations. And yet, against
such an agency of unequaled benefeenCe,
Ignorance and selfshness and spasmodic
mania, born of former governmental lavish
ness of expenditure, lift up their harsh dis
sonant voices in Condemnation. The diE-
cordant shrek is that Of the red men of the
plains. Distractions imposed by paper
vetoes and empty harangues and appeals to
selfshness or vices of ignorance are una
vailing as lessons taught red men. The
necessities of Texas and of an empire on
either side of us constitute forces which no
prejudices of ignorance or popular penuri
ousness or arts Of demsgogism can resist.
The road must and will be built. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
SGRIN AND BEAR TT0-THR CIVIL
RIGHTS ACT.

The Legislature of Tennessee will issue
an address to the people urging prudence
and moderation and quiet obedience to all
Federal laws and Presidential deviltries
designed to achieve, by provoking violence,
the Third Term. This address will refer
especially to the expected operation of the
infamous civil rights BILL By the way,
cannot the operation of the law be eYaded 2
Suppose all statutory and common law,
affecting hotels and taverns, be repealed,
and that we have no "hatelsm or "tav,.
erns." May not our friends of the
City, Raymond and Avenue Hotels quiet
ly refuse to receive any guest within their
''private residences" without incurring, if
an Ethiopian call, the penalties of the Fed
eral law. In many Southern towns hotels
have been closed, and infinite annoyance to
travellers aud strangers results. We are
inclined to believe that in obviating diff
culties and evils, embodied in this device
of Radicalism, Judge Ireland's genius may
find at last an useful field of effective ac-
ton. A private letter from Southern
Federal Senator, representing an adjacent
State, tells us that ''the result Of the next
Presidential election depends now wholly
upon the conduct of the people of the
South. Grant and Boss Sheperd and
Ben Batler and the oficeholders
see that the only hope for the main
fanaona of ,arotractcd power sssnslsts
in. a rsnzo,5rooa l,oilisn.,,-z9F4rc death of
iy..- hundred negroes and of ten or more
Fderal marshals and of half dozen Kel-
legs would be the happiest of all possible
icidents. Grant would get drunk and be
d llissful as a ''biled OWL" We hope
tINrs that he will not be gratifed. Grin
an6endurs despotism for two years that
thSouth and the North and continental
emil ire may yet be perfectly blest in perfect
FREEDOM under the benignant sway of a
persct union.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

A MEMBER of the Georgia Legislature pro-
posed the repeal Of the law which exempts
manufactures for ten years from taxation.
He said If the law continued long in force
the State would soon. be overrun with cot
ton mills. The whole press is eloquent in
opposition 10 the repeal. and the law will
remain operative. The papers say that
while these cotton factories have proven ex-
ceedingly profitable, there arc many other
branches of manufacturing which require
fostering before they win ever become of
profit. To tax these enterprises now is
either to kill OF to deter men from engag-
ing in them. Besides, the sum of money
likely to be realized from tax on manufae-
eoI1es IA Georgia Is rediIy TOO pGICfy 70 be
considered against the great benefits which
the State viii realize from their permanent
establishment. 1t must be borne in mind
that factories make taxable property wher-
ever they are located. Take away factories
from Columbus, Georgia, and the value Of
the property in that city would decrease at
least fifty per cent, thus causing loss to
the State of three or four times as much
money as could be obtained from the facto-
ries by taxation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

TWELVE members of Kellogg's Legisla-
ture were sent az a committee from New
Orleans to investigate tho condition Of
public buildings at Baton Rouge. On the
steamer with them there were thirty con-
victs sent up to the penitentiary, in charge
of half a dozen Irish deputy sheriffs.
When the boat landed of course those in
nocent Irishmen could not distinguish the
thieves of the Legislature from those of the
Old Bailey, and the whole fOrty-two were
consigned to the State prison pen. It is q
pleasing reflection that justice gets her
dues, and that there are civic and official
duties in the execution of which an limo
cent Irishman is inimitable. They are moi
all, by any means Phil sheridans. Ii
fact the whole race, to the extent that il
honors Mitchell, lcves freedom, and hates
Grant and his myrmidons.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
MHERENT sPIRTTU1L FORCES OF
A RAILWAY.


There is an absolute moral as we'll as
physical power exerted by railways. 1t is
seen in magnetism evolved when dogs and
children arc ever set in motion, as if au-
tomato, by a thundering railway train.
They are not affected by fright more than
horses accustomed to terrors of roaring
trains, and only recognize Observation-Disclosures
Of the tremendous agencysef traffic and
travel. From sheer sympathy with muscles
Of iron, nerves Of steel, breath Of flame and
soul Of fire, even animals are magnetized
and stare in wonder, or are set in motion to
express delight or recognition of the unri-
valed force evolved by vitalIzed, pom
dsrOus machinery. Little negroes, as often
As each train passes farm house, become
each restive Punch and Judy, and go
through ell the touching antics Of Juvenile
bears Just emerged from hibernatiOn out
into cleaning, vivifying sunshine of bud
ding, smiling springtime.
There is no accounting for this wonder
ful magnetic force. 1t Affects not onIy-Tne
muscles and nerves Of ignorance and ma
chinery Of sluggish intellect, but age and in
telligenee never grow weary Of contemplat-
ing, and never fsil to recognize invaluable
lessona inculcatsd by the living embodi-
ment Of mans intellectual strength incased
in iron, and sharing, seemingly, the yigor
OF omnipotence. When the first trains
passed over endless wastes from Omaha to
the Sierra Nevada, Wild Indians stood aloof
and contemplated IN awe and unbrOken
silence the frightful speed and more fright
Iul roaring and hollow, sepulchral cough,
and rattling bones of these neWly-bOrn
monsters that surely came from cenotaphs
IN which behemoths were Of old entombed.
Savage courage vas paralyzed. Musketry
and cannon had failed, bat ths majesty and
over awing intellect embodied in the ma
issl,c machinery and movements ana life and
breathings Of The railway tram subdned for
time the ferocity Of Modoos and Apaches.
Bnt tho red men conv0ksd . council oi var.
Coariers uers sent abroad and IN alliance
silecis1 6mong alI tribes inimical to pro
sfe I've white civilization. Il vas resolved.
even = h,ppened heEp IN Austin. 20 cap
turn and destroy, II nordef 70 demofaIiss the
rest, one looonoiivo a1d train. The ava
ges ven sAlherea. vasl multitude. ana .
long nspe nade q inler-noven lassoA
Ihoolands - nasaRcs, rrnspin< ths inter
ninahle fc,e eele lSits q The grass The
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11
ADVICE GIVEN THE SOUTH BYDEM.
OGRATIC CONGRES8MEN.

The Southern Conservatives in Congress
have issued wise and patriotic address to
their constituents. 1t is document that
cannot fail to do good North as well as
South. All Democrats should feel that
their acts, and particularly the acts of those
who took the Southern side in the late civil
war, arc regarded with extreme jealousy by
those Northern men who have for the past
fifteen years acted with the Republicans par
ty. There is a growing disposition to be
frOternal, but underlying it there is latent
suspicion, born of recent antagonism. Wise
politicians will tenderly regard even the
prejudices of such allies, and will endeavor
to convert what may be only temporary
into permanent alliance. 1t only needs
the cries of exultation which went up in
some quarters at so harmless thing as Mr..
John Young Browns Junius-like invective
against Butlerism to show how little indis-
cretion might re7iVs-rne sectiOII''i split,
which all true patriots are now desiring to
see forever buried among the ashes of the
costliest civil strife the Anglo-Saxon race
has ever seen.
This address, signed by every Democratic
Congressman, says: z
The great ends of good government win
be reached when the people of all sections
forget that VIC have ever been enemies and
come together again as in the early days Of
the Republic, emulating each other only in
devotion to the best interests Of the whole
country. With this exalted purpose in
view, there is nothing inconsistent with the
honor and manhood Of brave people to
resolve to suffer with heroic patience what
ever be their proEocations and wrongs,
| looking through the fearful present to the
| hopeful future, and repelling unjust epithets
and gratuitous insults with dignified mod
Grafton. Let every white man in every
neighborhood in the whole South regard
himself as a commissioner of the peace,
maintaining the kindliest relations toward
the black man, remembering that the re-
sponsibility for the extreme poverty to
which we have been reduced and the cor
rupt governments to which his vote has
subjected US rests not so much upon him as
upon the bad men who, with the assurance
of Federal support, have by appeals to his
worst passions sought to make him our
enemy. We do not
exaggerate when we admonish you of the
disheartening fact that every street dis
turb&nce, every homicide, of whatever
character, by whomsoever committed, by
black or white, Republican or Democrat,
such as are incident to every community
upon earth, is perverted into evidence of
spirit of lawlessness aud violence and
purpose to accomplish political ends.
The most extreme, oppres-
sive and unconstitutional measures may be
imposed upon yOu. In such an event we
would appeal to the wisdom and patriotism
of long-suffering people, by every hope Of
the future, for continued forbeaFance and
hopeful reliance upon the virtue and sense
OF the justice of the American people for
the ultimate vindication of our rights, the
protection Of our liberties, and the safety
of our republican form of government
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The Dallas Herald property says that ''if
this Legislature do not dispose Of the
constitutional convention and international
subsidy questions it might as we'll not have
assembled" The people OF Texas whether
directly and immediately the bene6ciares
Of the International or not see how its CON-
pletion win enrich the whole State, protect
ITS fame unsulIied and prevent the creation
Of sectional Team parties. A brief session
may be eminently cheap and desirable; but
a long one, If il settle the international sub
sidy question, viii cost infinitely less. No
one win deny this proposition
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hsa -o0IIrTcIlns-raE
DlFFERENCE.
RnTrnne


b"
Broken down politicians and disap-
pointed oiIico-seekers have been assaillng We
hemently for some months a portion Of the
newspaper press Of Texas. In what,
however, consists the evideneel We
approve the assertion Of the Farmville
Herarv, that editors and reporters are
about the most ill-paid and hard worked
people in the commonwealth, They are
the csr,se ds "a creme Of the educated classes,
and yet they serve the public for pittanees
which on the average are less than Paul
De Cassagnac paid his raid. eHennl legisls-
tors have the syuptoins. Thy buy big
houses and costly furniture, give swell din
ners, and spread themselves in society like
green bay trees. There is enough Of that
sort Of thing IN the Union. There are vensl
editors also in the North who get their ss5,
600 for doing nothing when . subsidy frOm
Congress is wanted. They arp usually edq-
Gated men, but only in that sense Which
make smartncss verging On rescallty Z pan
Of education. Our Texan editors are Ike
none 81 these. They are, IS . class. not Eich,
except in mental endowmsnts and nnin-
peachable honor. Many Of them are known
10 Us personally. and We have fOdnd taeA
ardent lovers Of bsiia ls,trss schoolmen,
fond Of argument where truth needed
drawing out, smart ss tie s1iarte.t in opi-
grams and ygp1rtoss, shrewd us the slEsWd-
s.s in she discovery q shiona5s i0yel 8
friends and honorable e foes, but nevel
controlled b. he grovllIing sordId. nllr
and disgusting desire for llilg lnErn nlliich
can ds1rade Gteraiaru - tns leYel ct q
hssks,srs s.aT. 1hsehargs q rsnaIi,y 4
lhsseio,c simply addins ln5l, = re
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

IT will be seen by reference to our dis
patches that there was concerted plot,
emanating no doubt from the Butler Bureau
at Washington, to plunge the South into q
war against the blacks at once. The ink
was not dry where Grant wrote his name at
the bottom of the civil rights bill, before
Buffers tools were inveigling innocent,
ignorant, harmless negroes into theatres in
Southern cities. No harm, thus far, has
come of it. The same incidents will mark
the course of events in Austin, and the
people must be as wise and prudent here
as elsewhere. But Austin and San Antonio
have doublY terrible blow dealt them.
One from Washington the other at the
hands of our own chosen Chief Magistrate.
It's enough to mab the streets sloppy with
the teas of the anguished people. Wecan
only grin and endure these calamities pa
tiently and wisely. There is way out Of
evils even greater than we bear. Grant viii
be beaten, If we do nothing to elect him,
and justice and right are surely not mac
cessiblc in the capital of Texas when Texans
themselves ask it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-11

MUcH apprehension is felt among the old
est, ablest and wisest members Of the Leg
islature lest that body be forced toadjOun,
BY the resolution adopted, even before the
appropriation bills bePerfected. This sud-
den hot haste to get away in obedience 70
supposed demands Of supposed economy
nav cost taxpayers enormous sums in
ssshavess to which honda forced 70 sale,
may be subjected IN Whll street. Protect
frst the honor, and Then the iazFsyers Of
Texas and then adjourn.
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Renrenees.

CoFFEE q HENDERSON, AttoFneys-af las. a AZ,
FEY a MORROW, AuoFneys-at law; MAkEMSON
& POSEY, Attorneys-at-law, Georgetown, Texas.
NORTON MOSES, Burnet, Burnet county, Texas
II. A. BLANDFORD, Austin Encampmcnt, I. o.
o. r.; GEORGE B. ZIHPELNAN, Austin Encamp-
ment, I. o. OF.
/ am personally acquainted with +. N. Bolin and
the parties who recommend him. ell citizens OF VIII
hanson county, and believe him and them to be
trustworthy aid honorable.
LEVI PENNINGTON, Clerk d. G. Williamson Co.
am personally acquainted with +. N. Bolin and
know him to be zealous odd Fellow and high
toned, honorable gentleman, and such take peaa-
". <. MHKEasoN, n. G. GeOrgetswn Lodge.
No. i79 ]. .. U. +.
concur In the above
A. 4. REED, v. g. Georgetown Lodge.
Direct all letters to +. N. B0LIN Manager, Box g.
Round Rock Williamson county, Texas
Agents Wanted. jA29 diva
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sECrroNALEsM IN STATE LEGIs-
EATHON.

Dallas nevspapeEs-even the cswmorri0l,
that 50 fercely denOuuosd, some weeks
ago the Internafional subsidy biIl-are jnbi-
lant because Of the riches with which the
Legislature invests the Dallas and Wichita
Railroad- The C5usmesial throws mp its
hat and declares "It has che most valuable
fnnchiss in the state.u But this franchise
ava,ls nothing 70 Western Tsxas- kveEy-
thiug aszsa b Dallas o. Sherman, o. East
EN- Teas, Is conceded, and nothing so1shi
bv the Wcsl Is gIanted. Tie MISSOURI,
Kansas ana Texas Railway Company ssek1
tOscna 40 lines down iuso ths s0uthVs.t
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0vERNoR CoKE's elaborate veto mes
sag in reply to the STATESMAN, contains
iftpages, and $4,000 copies are to be dis
trihted. These are so numerous that
eveEbody that chooses to read it can have
a coy. 1t would fill all our space, and a
synpsis would only be synopsis OF
speeches and arguments delivered in the
twthouses of the Legislature. These facts
depgate in nothing from the real value
ant force of the admirable State paper.
Nov that the Governor is vindicated
anIis perfectly blest in having his ocD sUcet
wa, let us all be sensible and wise and just
AMI assure the construction of the railway
toIthe Rio Grande. Then the ends foI
witch the STATESMAN has toiled, strenu'
ouly and tirelessly, the unity of Texas and ol
th, Democratic party and justice to the WesI
AMI the aggrandizement of the whole o.
Teas will be accomplished, and Governor
Goes administration will be deemed the
pnudest and most benefcent that eve
bl,st this great commonwealth. Such I
cnsummation would not delight Governo
CSke more than those true men Of th'
Vest, who, in serving their own section
lave sought most earnestly and wisely t
serve this imperial State.
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YESTERDAY we we're shOWna private let
ter from one of the leading citizens oi
Brszoria county, containing a special mes
sage to and subscription for the STATESMAN
It thanked Us for the interest VIC have
lately shown in matters concerning that
county, and also, as he writes. for oul
''castigation of Bryan and Munson,p the
representatives Cd of an oppressed people
The people Of that county feel that they
have been insulted in connection with theiI
Santa Fe protest, and they also feel that
these members have attempted TO give then
adeadly thrust in voting against the Inter
nasfonuI ComprUm1sg D1I1.
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the whOleYoiuuIc Of the Mississippi is to be
confined and projected with augmented
force far out into the sea is contemplated.
L IS great work but wholly in vain. sys-
iphus's labors are to be re-enacted by Mt.
Eads and as the rlver's length is extended
annually by detritns from distant noun
tains and alluEIum from endless valleys
these walls must be forever extended. The
whole of this deposit viii be confined by
jetties to single point and ITS extension
will be more rapid than ever before and if
Mr.. Eads win direct his walls towards
proper points we may soon run branch of
the international even into Havana or Vera
Cruz. -e = @ se
The proper remedy for obstructions to
commerce at the mouth of the Mississippi
win be found in slackwater ship canal
from New Orleans itself to deep water in
Barrataria Bsy, at Fort Livingston. Then
the greatest ships the world has seen
may be towed by locomotives to
and from New Orleans, and the CON-
mercial distance between New Orleans
and Galveston will be lessened one
half, and the tow-boat monopoly would
- Al,
high seas. These tow boats have been
more ruinOus to the wealth of the South
than buccaneers, that ravaged the ocean fifty
years ago, to the trade of the Indies. Eads's
jetties make the tow boats more indispen-
sable and more ruinOus, and the mouth
of the Mississippi is at last damned
up even by Congressional enactment
and the commerce of the West still forced
forever over Ead's great bridge at St. Louis
and over the great railways from East to
West that built it.
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The friends of the STATESMAN may easily
demonstrate their appreciation Of the worth
a -A.s--------,--r----IE IL -Ahar think As we
are assured from all quarters by kilograms
and private letters, and, especially by per
sonaI assertions here at home, that we have
served the people well, let them now do Us
practical service. The toll and paper, ink,
printers bills and the wear and tear Of ma
chinery and brains Of daily paper, cost
much money that must be paid for on the
spot. Do not stop with empty words.
Let each reader OF the STATESMAN give
US another. All can do this and thus
the cause We espouse win be strength
ened, tho attractions Of Austin and Of
Texas made more widely known, and
the STATESMAN itself, with each extension
Of its influence and capacity for good, be
comes more readable and more benefcent.
Serve Us practically. Kind words please
the ear and fatter vanity, but this little
practical service that every reader may
render without cost Of time or money would
be infinitely more agreeable. Try It, wOn'i
vons