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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30
WELLS,S KNAVERIES AND THE PI-
Gus COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

1t will be seen by dispatches of this
morning that the process of counting cut
the Democrats and counting in the Repub-
lican electors was bravely prosecuted yes
terday 10y Wells and his coadjutors in New
Orleans. The course of events in Louisi-
ana is precisely that which was anticipated,
and no worse or better or more honest than
that defined by the returning board of South
Carolina. In this latter State there is an
apparent, but perhaps unreal, quarrel be-
tween the Supreme Court and the other
body of organized scoupdrels. The court
at least seerss to be grossly outraged and
fiercely indignant, and absolutely fines the
board $500 each for its devil
may care modes of procedure in
executing the behests of the party's masters
at Wash ugtop. Bat what signlfed the
trifling fat! Cameron will pay it out of
blackmail levied upon placeholders, who
are to be continued in office under Hayes.
If the court had fined the recalcitrant board
fifty thousand dollars each, the sum would
have been lifted, in twenty y-fonr hours, out
of the pockets of the toiling, impoverished,
tax burdened people of the country. The
fraud Is thin, very thin, and the price paid
for it thinner than the transparent gauzs
with which bold, bad men veil their face:
when practicing the most unblushing out
rage ever tolerated by any people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

NOT only is the retail trade leaving New
York, and not only are wholesale houses
like Stewards distributing branches abroad,
but the country's wealth finds many central
repositories. Chicago first becomes great,
and as population moves South, st. Louis
gains importance and power. Every visitor
of New York through the past summer,
who also visited Philadelphia, Chicago and
st. Louis, discovered how great the growth
of the smaller cities, and how the once
mighty metropolis has lost its once incom-
parable pre-eminence. Chicago has its miles
of "Broadway," ever thronged with hurry
ing mutitudes, as was the Broadway of the
olden time before the revulsion came that
destroyed folm of government, inverted
the country's commercial map, and changed
systems of life and thinking. There are
now forty two stores to let on Broadway,
between Astor Place and City Hall.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

pie. He has great ability. He is
very proper scholar. He is deemed
a skillful lawyer and astute party leader,
an admirable declaimer and pleasing rheto-
rician. He has won distinguished honor
as a leader of the people and of the Senate;
but when Congress sits next month there
begins in both houses of that body war
of words which may become war of blows.
No such terrible dangers ever threatened
the peace of the country. Lincoln was fair
ly elected president. And yet war came.
Hayes will be thrust into Office without
election and in open contravention of the
will of the people, There came war with
out precedent danger in 1861; but now, in
1876, an internecine conflict is surely pos
sible, even probable. In the presence OF
these fearful facts Governor Hubbard's
stolid, selfish, apathetic indifference to the
country's woes and dangers, and his own
self-assertion, must be amazing if he under
take to direct the course of events without
the advice and cooperation of the Leg
islature. He may respect the ardent
words of the unbought Examiner, which
grows frantic when it has been suggested
that present and unavoidable future local
and financial necessities may make the
meeting of The Legislature an imperative
necessity, but when the new government
that spring from the relations of States to
Federal events there can be no hesita-
ton. AS surely as the fourth of March is
coming, even SO surely, unless most men
grossly exaggerate impending dangers, the
Legislature of Texas must be convened.
But We only proposed to say that if Tex
delegation recently chosen, the people
have abundant reason for self-gratu-
Iation in the fact that however grave
the emergencies or deplorable the events
which imbruted suffrage and greed for
Office may beget, or however unprecedented
the dangers environing the commonwealth,
Governor Hubbard is endowed with every
virtue in morals and intellect qualifying
him for the position he must occupy. We
may be pardoned for saying further that
however great the honor conferred upon
Governor Coke, and however earnestly his
conduct and bearing in the Senate may be
scrutinized, yet it SO happens that Coke
leaves the Office more difficult to fill to his
successor. The greater intelligence and
profounder craftsmanship must be required
at the hands of him who governs Trxas
wisely at this juncture than of those who
simply represent and speak for the State
in the Federal capital.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30
THE STRAIN UP"N THE SHIPS
TIMBERs.

The newspapers talk of the ''strain upon
our institutions" and the Tribune says if
'they tide over this trouble the country
can endure any shock" 1t isn't the coun-
try's institutions that are subjected to ter
rlble trial. Our institutions haye gone to
the devil long ago and order depends upon
the common, practical sense of the American
people. The people will be cheated and
right outraged by the knaves that govern
Louisiana; but war costs more than public
plunder is worth, and ii we remain at peace
and Hayes take Office wrongfully he and
his party will be so utterly detested before
brief four years have passed, that the Pres
ident and his party and p'acemen would
stink IN unutterable rottenRess. Fout years
is a very brief period in the lifetime of
nation, and it can afford to be patient and
it is this strain upon popular patience and
not upon our institutions that we contem-
plate with confessed anxiety.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

THE New York Herald, that devoted its
pages for twelve months to the exposition
of the horrors of C@sarism, forgets to-day
that it then pronounced the evil intolerable.
1t then prepared the people for active resist
ance to an usurpation which it now con-
templates with wonderful stolidity. 1t was
terribly brave when the possibility was re-
mote, but when it stands in the very pres
ence of the fact, when Grant and the 5ayo-
net appoint the country's masters and Its
laws, the Herald is mild as May morning
and submissive as a martyr at the stake.
The Herald may be right to-day; then the
Herald was very wrong twelve months ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

IT Is strange fact that Gen. Chalmers,
brave and skillful Confederate leader, was
elected to Congress over colored competi-
tor of rare ability and the present incum-
bent, by majority of 1000. Gen. Chal-
mers now represents the strongest black
district in Mississippi, and the Vicksburg
Herald says Chalmers's success is due to the
fact that over one-half of the colored vote
cast was given to him. Hayes carried the
district over Tilden. While driving to the
wharf at Frlar's Point the day after the
election Gen. Chalmers irriage was stopped
by the colored men, who unhItched the
horses and, seizipg the pole, drew the vehi-
Gle to the landing, amid repeated cheers.
Gen. Chalmers will occupy high position
in the House, and prove one of the most
useful and able representatives of the South.
He is thoroughly conservative, even as La
mar has been, and will win as rapidly the
esteem and confidence of the whole coun-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

From the middle of August, when fully
fair cargoes sold at the seabord at 10 1-2
cents gold, down to :he first of November.
when the same grade of coffee sold at 1S 1.2
cents gold, everything has favored the sell
ling interest. Small stocks In this country
and an active consumptive demand from
the interior have stimulated purchases in
Brazil to a rather large extent; and as these
cargoes are commencing to arrive now, IL
Is we'll to look at the situation and see
whether it is probable that the present
values can be maintained much, IL any,
longer. On the first OF October very un-
usual state of things exists at the principal
importing points, namely total want Of
first-hand supplies, and but few cargoes
on the way, all of which had been sold, and
in some instances resold to arrive, at con-
stantly advancing prices. During Septem-
Der and October the purchases in Brazil for
the United States amounted to about 300,-
600 bags, costing laid down in this country
from 16 12 to II cents gold, and these cof-
fees are now coming on the market from
day to day, as they arrive. The visible sup
ply has increased about SO, 900 bags since
the middle of August, Notwithstanding the
fact that the large stock carried over from
last year has been almost completely con-
sumed, and purchases for at least portion
Of the time under review were remarkably
small. The great facility afforded by num-
erous steamers running in the Brazil trade
at this season enables the importers to
rapidly accumulate a large accession to their
stocks, and quickly change the relative
positions of supply and demand It will be
seen that as the coffee, now arriving, pays
large profit to the importers, It is their
policy TO market their goods promptly, as
there is no reason outside OF previous
scant supply for the present market values.
Indications point to the fact that In some
| instances there has been an anxiety 70 ac-
cept effers aPproximatiDg pretty closely TO
current quotations, and concessions have
been MADE that In the light Of all that has
been known of the market for q few weeks
past, looked unfayOTable 10 sellers. With
an ample supply ahoat and loading, very
heavily daily receipts aDd accumulatiDg
stock in Rio, there is every reason 70 look
for an easy market and gradually decreas-
ing prices in this country for some time for
ward.-i%. Louis Republican q
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

IT is an awful thing for a big railroad
eight hundred miles long, like the Kansas
Pacific, to fall into the hands of receivers.
ALI the old placeholders have to go out and
a new swarm comes in. 1t was as terrible
as the first election of Abe Lincoln, and as
frigbtful as this of Tilden's. Why is there
not war all along the line of the Kansas
and PaciGci And if Liucoln's election be-
gat war, and he was fairly chosen, why may
not Tildens. But the people have seen
and learned enough of recent years to pro-
vide against such calamity, and as there
is peace in Kansas City and along the route
of the great railway to Denver, even so
must there be peace from Maine to Mexico
and California.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

TRAMPs, the homeless wanderers that
have cursed all the States, and especially
towns and villages, in their steady march,
have swept over San Antonio. They rob
wher the industry of the country refuses
to give, and then go from one to another
village and city, when elections are at hand,
to levy upon candidates and free lunches,
to vote early and often and sell to every
buyer. They sprang from bad government.
Remorseless taxation that nothing escapes,
levied by corporations, by counties, by
States and then by the all-pervading sys-
TEN of thieving called Federal indirect tax
alton, makes labor profitless and generates
idleness. The Texas scheme of govern
ment provides . mighty force of placemen
whom the people must support, and when
the unseen cost of these systems, preying
upon popular industry, is such that profits
of labor are lost to the laborer, he becomes
an idler-a tramp. Bad governments gen.
crate bad populations - the gipsy-like
tramp, the horsethief of the Rio Grande
and the loafing, lousy whisky-guzzler and
standing office-seeker and vote-vender of
the village and town. The new Constitu-
ton was especially framed that these love-
able classes might be multiplied and rem
dered useful in giving masters to corpora
tions. We can only regret that the San
Antonio newspapers do not seem to be well
pleased that the tramps have invaded that
abode of sunshine and potatoes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

TIE Young Mems Christian Association
of Dallas is observing the worlds week Of
prayer. The world is certainly in bad
way, and if ever young mems christian as
sociations intend to do practical good by
an interpleader filed in the High Court of
last resort the proper occasion presents i t
self when Russia holds Europe and Grant
America by the throat, each threatening to
deluge a continent in blood. The good
people of all classes and churches, if they
think prayers avail anything, never before
had such an opportunity to serve our coun-
try and our race. The burden of prayers
should be quotation from him who recks
least of the woes of men" Let US have
peace"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

IT is said that fanatIcal negroes in
Indianapolis, when the news came that
Tilden and Hendricks were elected, as
sailed the house of Mr.. Hendricks with
stones, tore down hisinclosure and befouled
the walls of his residence. Everybody be-
lieves that Tilden, having received 800, 600
majority of the votes of the whole people
of the United States, should be, and is,
lawfully President; but nobody believes
that Grant intends that Tilden shall be his
successor, and the chances are, in view Of
the present state Of Northern popular feel
ing, which Congress will make red hot.
that Grant will be his own successor
Again are we reminded Of the persistent
assertion of Gen. Frank Blair, who knew
Grant more thoroughly than any living
man, that if Grant ever entered the White
House he would only come out feet fore
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30
THE PLAIN Truth AND CONDUCT
OF THE PEOPLE

Within two years after Hayes is inaugu-
rated by the knavery of returning boards
and force of bayouets, the people, detesting
processes by which the supremacy of Rad
icalism must be achieved, will have erected
the very last adherent Of Hayes and Grant
from Congress, and the House of RepIesen-
taiives and every elective Office in the
United States will be filed by an enemy of
this organized scheme Of usurpation, wrong
and despotism denominated in derision the
''RepublicaH party" The source of power
and well-spring of intelligence and justice,
whence arises the inherent sense of right
that has shaped the conduct of republican
government in America, has not been
wholly deiled and corrupted. The war be-
tween the States did not brutalize the great
body of the people, and in the country and
on the farms and in the Oranges and in the
churches, North and South, everywhere
outside the cities and towns, the masses of
the people are imbued with thorough love
of justice and right, of honesty and of re-
publican freedom. To this great body of
the common people, Democrats and R2pub-
licans, the patriots OF the whole country
look with perfect confidence and the
greater and more glaring the outrages done
at New Orleans and Columbia and Talla-
hassee the more certain the terrible con-
demnation by the people. Just now they
are impatient and silent. The bayonet and
moral power of the administration, quite
as lawless ami even more dangerous, must
be necessarily unresisted. But this acquies-
cense ia wrong and patient submission to
injustice is part of scheme of certain and
terrible vengeance. If Hayes have the
presidency thrust upon him, even in accord
ance with the forms of law, and this law
Je basely conceived and wlckedly executed,
at the very first popular election his party
will be annihilated and at the close of his
sively in its placeholders. 1t is the true
policy of the Democratic party, however
detestable the agencies of wrong to which
we submit, to be patient. Republican lib
CITY 10 HOI uCdu Wullc Iue DtulOCIdl1C pdItJ
wields majority of 800. 900 of the white
votes of the United States, and if it be
cheated temporarily of supremacy in the
republic, it IS still in reality the master of
the country's destinies. 1t therefore dares
not, burdened with such responsibilities,
do more than be patient when final and
lasting triumph is inevitable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

oNE would naturally suppose that at a
juncture like this the San Antonio Herald
would suspend its everlasting ''blathering"
about the segregation of the several great
districts of Texas. The result, horrible in
the North and deplorable in the last degree
in the South, may be such that the unity
of Texas becomes of infinite importance
and value to the people. We do not pro-
pose to take stock in the next war, and our
safety is only compatible with the unity of
the commonwealth. The Herald in one
direction and the Age in another is simply
insane.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30
ANOTH Err WAR.

Just as soon as Hayes is thrust into Office
by the bayonet and purse and returning
boards, in order to divert public attention
from outrages done the people, the United
States will be thrust into war with Mexico.
And now comes the opportunity of Hunt
ington and of the owners of the Interna-
tional. We will want road into Mexico
that armies aud supplies may be hurled
against the strongholds of Cortina, and
that we may assail the wretched country on
every hand and communicate with forces
on the Pacific. HuntIngton's road along
the northern confines of Lerdo's wretched
country must be built, and Huntington,
with his organized army of twenty thou
sand laborers, is the very agent the United
States must have. Let US have peace at
home and war abroad will be the cry of
Radicalism, and the government must then
extend the International to Lare o, and
Huntington's lines to El Paso.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

LET the Houston Ags roar and rant and
tear its shirt. There is at least one spot on
earth where peace viii always reign and
rude war can never come. It is tbe land
of the blest, serene, lighted BY moonbeAms
famed By y-breezes that never toyed among
flowers save such as grow in the densest
forests In this abode of blissful beatitude
there can be no war and the Age cannot
arouse the people TO arms for Tilden or
Hayes. In BsWIe county there was no
election on the seventh inst Nobody knew
the names Of the presidential electors and
the country's hopes Of peace ana blessedness
rest upon the paIpitating bosom OF Bowie.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

REDFIELD, the Southern correspondent
for years past of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes of louisiana:
And right here let me say that they have
carried it for Tilden on the face of things.
The returns, so far as received, and fairly
estimating the seven parishes not yet Off
cially reported, show that Tlden has a
majority of about 5000.
1t will hardly be safe or prudent for
Wells and his returning board, in the face
of these plain facts thus asserted by a
staunch and intelligent adherent of Hayes,
to count Tilden out and Hayes into the
presidency. But Grant stands by with the
purse and sword.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

imprisoned and compelled to pay all dam
ages. We read of case in which gen
tleman crossing the street saw that he
could only escape injury or death by
shooting the headlong driver of a coach.
The Jehu was killed by the we'll directed
bullet, and the ccurt held that the footman
acted in self-defense, and was blameless.
Hackmen and horsemen should therefore
beware, and people need not break their
necks running to get out of the way of
furious riders and drivers. 1t is easier to
stop the carriage or madly-ridden, bucking
Bucephalus, and under such circumstances
the law would not make one endangered
pay for the perforated animal. But there
is no necessity for mad driving on the one
hand, or for pistol practice on innocent
horses on the other. Policemen should in
struct the whips and fancy performers on
horseback in reference to their rights and
privileges. They should be taught that
people on foot have the right of precedence
on the streets and crossings, and that it is
the business of drivers and mounted people
to see that they endanger no one and keep
out of the way and give the way to foot
men. If landowners bond be good, and
the mayor should see that it Is when the
hack is licensed, he can be made to pay for
all il juries done people on the streets.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

THE story comes that the South Carolina
and New Orleans and Florida embroglio
has involved Bastrop. Hon. Wash Jones
had an unpleasantness with another excel
lent citizen of the town, and the conse-
quence is, that parties are organized, Mexi-
can pronunciamientos have been issued,
and broken bones and cracked skulls may
be as common about Bastrop as, next win
ter, around the Capitol at Washington.
Ambitious men and parties, if the people
are only weak enough, will be the couutry's
rlin
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

LAWYERS, young and old, are familiar with
the writings of Chancellor Kent. His COM
mentaries on American law are as common
ly read as Backstone's on English Common
Law; but that the learned Chancellor was
prophet as we'll as priest appears from the
following excerpt from his book.
If ever the tranquility of this nation is
to be disturbed and it's liberties endangered
81 struggle for power, it will be upon this
very subject of the choice of a President.
This is the question that is eventually to
test the goodness and try the strength of
the Constitution. =
The state of society, and of property in this
country, and our moral and political habits,
have enabled us to adopt the republican
principle and to maintain it, hitherto, with
illustTious success. 1t remains to be seen
whether the checks which the Constitution
has provided against the dangerous propen-
stiles of our system will ultimately prove
effectual. The election of a supreme ex-
ecutive magistrate fo- whole nation affects
so many interests, addresses itself so strong
ly to popular passions, and holds out such
powerful temptations to ambition, that it
necessarily becomes strong trial to public
virtue, and even hazardous to the public
tranquility.
But there was one greater danger which
the prophetic ken of the great Chancellor
failed to foresee. lie never deemed it pos
sible that the ballot-box would be so pol
luted by those paddened by greed for pow
er and gold that universal suffrage would
embrace Senegambian ignorance and unlver-
sal corruptibility. Chancellor Kent might
foresee all things, but never the existence
or necessity for returning board.