The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-21

l1sI AEl statesman. 'a.V .con;Tr. If
. DIiea above the react OF iCtal rrei.
udices, jIster opinions G.! Squthrrn
whites a2d Of their purposes aad con
duct.
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! TIE earnestness w.,G which the
STATESMAN has asserted the necessity
for non-iate:yeG;ion in the troubles at
Washington, IS the policy O the South.
has offended the ieg ard pleased rhe
many. II Tilden oe cheated and as.
sert his rights, be is eniuen.ly cnpaj.e
Of providing for his own necessities.
Many ct bis adhereuts in the great
cities Of the Est happen to be class
which would be well pleased If Ii.arn
an3 Hayes come 20 blows. The nssss.
OF these are c9nfcsssdly T!lGsI's parii-
sSas, and are 50 eager ior aAy change
in their own condition ,hs5 auorchv
would be gladly welcomed. These
people think they have everything to
gain, as we have everything to lose by
participation in the possible conhict,
and since our services csn avail Tilden
nothing, such are his exhaustless re-
soGtces in proper materials of war, !:
becomes emineutiy wise shat we remain
passive spectators of current political
events. O1s of the most conservative
and ably-edited papers in the Ctit ID
States is the Springfield Mass Regub-
iicaa. Il is Il Republican newspaper,
anG yeS tells its readers plainly that
There is deep anxiety in Washington
in lasxrd 10 Affairs IA South CarOiina
lest there should be an outbreak.
Democrats ieet thas an outbreak would
injure their cause before The country.
There is nothing that the Republican
extremists would ike better than dis
play OF violence on the part of the
south Carolina Democrats. TlIdeu's
special friends here arc constantly teie-a
graphing to the South 10 aYoId yioE
lcnco and hloodshed.
Each enthusiastic bloo5- lrinkE oil
1860 /, ana each dismal destroyeyof the
Union, and each prophet of th16 day who
proposed to lead plundclfbg soldiers
through Philadelphia andR Wall street
should be silent now. lIo}aesty should
ir.pel them even ii comm, pn sense did
not finally supplant rant gsnd fury when
tao world in tears 1itResscd Lees
humiliation before pf-ant at AppomSt-
tox. When Sam Idousion stood up. a
brave old proph%t, defyiog the mad
ness of those y ho could not thirh, and
advised Texas Il sn 1901 TO stand aloof
from conflict (which could have, in
the very n4iurefof things, but one re-
suit, he wss hqlotcd at by the un.hink-
ing and incapfble. We could selv.,
he used TO fay, The older Southern
States in nothing save that We might
possibly Pfotract 5 conflict the result
OF whictl was already fixed. We e
now sH5d confess the wisdom OF the old
here6. AZ least they do Who have the
r4g6raI courage to confess their own fol-
Yes evcs if Lbe Weakness begat iniisats
icalam- ,ics. ,%Igutlshe thirst for goroantl
glory wa, irreprcssible. Eloquence
ubbI'pg up from countless little fell
Wv bosoms, who deemed themselves
statesmen. maddened the multitude
Ahat quaffed 1t, aud ridiculous as it
BEN. to-day, when VIC contemplate
y BAT was accomplished and recent de-
,lo able results, thousands OF us brave
rene as ever went before Gods throne
" fe before His or the altar of patriot
SIN &iq3 away in regiments and
,.ttal;ose seAend absolutely marched FL
con hundre miles that they might
hoot at soHs6oJ Ska 5at few came back
Iad they are SCARED v6Se erSns now hon
'red for their heroism aSnd britilan
leeds; bat for all that 81 am Houston
vas the prophet OF his tin &C. aad Sam
Iouston, in loving Texas; loved not
he less the mother of Sta ties and of
tatesnen that was the LAM OF his
,irth. His apothegms of 1SSseEl are
applicable to the facts of to-day, a1esI.
whatever the course of events at Wash
ugton or the extent of Grants fol-
les or crimes, the policy of Texas is
leHned for US by geographical laws
md by results even more clearly
mapped out than when Houston was
n Isaiah and propheaied. There will
'e no reproduction, even if anarchy
irst supervene, Of the extinct confed-
.rscY. That ''nation' served its time
md parpuse, and few wept when
tsnding on the brink OF shat ''last
Itch" in which its bones were in-
erred. When the negro became =
Tsenan, and thus the corner stone
II Southern distinctiyeGess srumbled
nto dust. distinctive Southern nation
lity became au in possibility and IL The
'eders! Union, as our fathers made it,
'e impossible, the Mississippi river, and
lot the obliterated Msson's and Dix
ms, must constitute the natural
'oundary line Of new Union, which,
Sith peace maintained while the North
ghts, would speedily absorb all e. q
'sates. In fact, .be only hope,f re- b
ablic.n l:b.rty or OF lis Fepro,,c,;on
destroyed by Grant andSbarm,n
nd Sheridan, is embodied, IN rbe con u i
4 nmatiou Of the policy hee defined
o serve sud szvethc Un;on I'D main. II
ain principles en1bodiei in bv onr c
athers, Texas IDust become tht rec.o. I
icIc OF wealth and populations lr;vsr c
rom tho E,ss by civii war. aud then =
io day will not lie distant when I - {
an command the peace" aud Ies or. I
perfect Ubien-
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