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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

ALEcK STErnENs is in Washington, and
very fat, weighing twelve pounds more than
for twelve years. He has gained pound
each year since he quit writing intermiua-
ble editorisls for the defunct newspaper at
Atlanta. HIS productions were called ex-
haustive because they emptied the editor
and towns and villages about Atlanta.
Nobody would stay in the vicinity OF one
of them. But he quit his foolishness and
has gone to Washington, where he will die
at last in ten or twenty years, and be
buried, aud have all sorts OF jcremiads
published about himself and his transfer to
brighter world, ana mankind will only
begin to believe him Ro more sometime
about the dawn Of the next centennial.
Twelve pounds more than in twelve years, ,
the newspapers say. His avoirdupois 10
now about twenty four pounds, and he will
play Fslstaf this winter at Ford's Thea,er.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

OREeox's Governor commissions one
Democrat as clector in that State, which
may thus give two votes to Hayes and one
to Tilden, and thus Tilden will be Presi-
dent. The Republicans insist that all votes
must be counted, and that the duties OF the
Senate and House are only ministerial, and
that they cannot look beyond the certif-
Gates opened in their presence, and there
fore that whatever Weiss returning board
may do or stearns's or Chamberlain's, the
votes as opened must be counted. This
rule of action applied to Oregon viii de-
feat Hayes, and We suspect that Grant and
Chandler and Morton are In brown study
ahout IL
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
THE CRISIS.

The present political condition demands
the most serious consideration. and unless
light is thrown upon the questions involved
or the solution reached at "a early day, q
crisis impends which must operate disas-
trously to the country. The greatest
pressure, probably, may bs felt between
now and the fourth of March, when the Sc
quail is to be reached. Until then all is ex-
pectancy, for any plan conceived by the
present Congress can hardly be accepted as
conclusive, and in the meantime an anxious
public will be possessed with forebodings
for the future. Conjecture becomes amaze
ment as developments are multiplied, and no
one SEEMS able 10 decide as to results. Not
only right, but constitutional questions be-
come involved. which even Jere Black
fails to make clear. Should the House OF
Representatives and Senate disagree, so
as to bring both Mr.. Tilden and
Mr.. Hayes short of an electoral
majority, does not the spirit Of
the Constitution come in conflict with the
election Of a president and vice president
from one States And even If this be not 80,
thete he uAauy oIner questlOus Wulcn CLOUD
the final result in the deepest obscurity. It
seems eminently proper just at this time
that some of our learned lawyers shsuld be
heard from On these questions, and we
could have as much respect for the opia-
ions of such men as Ballinger, Hancock,
Bell, West, Deyine. Moore, Pease and 9TH
srs, as for that of Mr.. Black. The public
would no doubt be pleased TO have the
views OF such gentlemen, and should they
see fit to follow this suggestion the STATES
MAN will willingly become the channel
through which they can place their opin-
ions before the public
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
AUT CESAR AUC NULLTS,

Was Grants exclamation when he ordered
the imperial guard to s.izs the Capitol OF
South Carolina, He intended to warn the
House of Representatives ct Washington
OF its fate if it dared to interpose
to prevent the cyowning Of Hayes BY
the President of the Federal Senate. II
Grant can peacefully aAd rishtiully seize
the Capitol of State, he can a. we'll and
peacefully thrust 8 president In or rresi.
dent out Of Office. If he may seize the
hall of Senators and Representatives at
Columbia, even so can he at Washington.
II the North submit to this outrage done
one State, it will also bow meeklJ when it
is offered TO forty States aud Territories.
II the North, rich and powerful, do not
resent the wrong when South Carolina is
stricken down, II httle becomes the South
to iuterpose when the despot's heel Is at
last placed upon the brawny necks Of New
York and Massachusetts,. II the poorest
and meanest commonwealth may be out
ragged and have its statehood spit upon, we
must also acquiesee when the richest and
most populous are made to bend before the
country's armed master. When Grant pro-
nouncod himself the mailed ruler OF
South Carolina, even SO, at the same in
slant, he became dictator in the late Amer
ican Republic. The North assents now
We will still assent when New York is
kicked, and when Massachusetts, and Bos-
ION are dealt with as petty provinces of the
enDire
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
WE WILL HAVE PBACE Ar ANY COST.

II the Northern people insist on having
civil war because Grant intends and will
see that his party is counted into power,
by fair means or foul, they should under.
stand even now that the South will have NO
share in it. We will take care Of the ne-
groes and of our property and pay taxes
and tariffs; but have sworn of, having had
enough of war. We would prefer famine,
or even Kellogg or Stearns or Davis OF
Warmoth, to war. It isn't our fight. So
long as We were victimized by knaves and
bayonets it was eminently proper to be pa
tIent and bow our necks to the yoke, and
the negro and his new masters harnesseu
and drove us to perdition, and then pa.
tience was sublime virtue. We now be-
gin to think that it was, and fear, when
bayonets gleam about the Capitol at Wash
ington and the Speaker is ordered TO vAcate
his chair: that the House may meet The
Senate and, a supple tool of power, count
the votes Of Louisiana and Florida for
Hayes. When these little incidents befall
the North we too are compelled to counsel
peace and order.and submission to outrage.
1t is no greater when practiced In Wash
ington than IN Columbia. Tolerated in
one it should be in the other capital. No,
no, the South 1s for peace, and will have it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

The Galveston Nsacs should not have un.
earthed the game so suddenly. We were
moving by slow approaches to the point
to which 1t leaps. We have said that Nor
ton, with the Constitution OF T, xas before
him and that of the United States, would
hardly suffer Governor Coke to become
Senator Coke till the latter gentleman was
no longer the first. He must divest him
self of the Office of Governor before he can
enter the Senate, and how his Exceliency
expects to achieve the purpose with Gov
ernor Hubbard in his rear and the gium
Morton blocking the way to the holy OF
holies of the Senate, we can't understand.
Thea suppose he lose ais seat in the Senate.
We shudder when contemplating the ugly
possibility. Hancock could beat him, and
Seth Shepard would slaughter them both.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

THE san, people of New Braunfels and
of San Antonio, who would make many
sacrifices, as intelligent populations have
ever done, even mere, to receive the inf
mite advantages of railway communication
with the exterior world, are amazed by
the conduct Of those who would prevent
the transit of Pierce's road across their
land. The San Marcos FIRES Press there
fore, speaks somewhat disparngingly OF
Judge Ireland, who interposes. it says, an
injunction to avert the alleged calamity in
volved in tho coming Of locomotives, those
terrible monsters which have smashed stage
coaches and stage drivers and turned back
ward the tide of the worlds progress BIZ
repressing stupidity and uplifting genius
and intelligence. It is inferred that Judge
Ireland opposed the subsidization Of the In
ternational road on the broad principle
that railways ruin the country. They do
destroy small men by erecting school houses
and churches and building towns and suf-
fering us to sea how the exterior world
wags but we didn't know before that they
destroyed the value of farms and untitled
prairies.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
OVERsHADO WING COKE

As evidence of false policy on the part
of Governor Coke in negotiating loans for
the State of Texas, we have but to refer to
the present condition of the foreign money
market. A private letter from gentleman
in England. we'll informed upon financial
matters, refers to this very question. He
says; Had Governor Coke appointed a
competent financial agent in England, as
he was advised to do, the result would
have been different. A Barring or Roths-
child would have acted in this capacity.
and money could have been obtained on
bonds OF a very low rate of interest. :.
Thinking that the State yet preserves. the
United States bonds lately belonging
to the school fund, he goes on to say: "By
hypothecsting the interest on these bonds,
money could be raised in London to pay
IF some of the Texas bonds which pay q
high rate of interest. The United States
has good credit, and lately has obtained a
loan of $500, 900, 600 in this country at four
and half per cent. Canada has just been
in the market for GO, 500, 900. The sub
scriptIon books were to be kept open two
days, but greatly more than enough was
taken the first day, and the rate of interest
was only four per cent" This shows the
cheapness of money across the Atlantic, and
while it could have been secured upon the
United States bonds at a rate of interest
probably not exceeding four per cent, these
very bonds nave been sold; and State bonds
issued in their stead bearing ten per cent.
interest. Not only in this instance could
money have been secured at low rate of
interest, but with leading tinaDcier OF
England as the States financial agent, Tex.
as bonds, sold some two years since, could
have been made TO realize handsome IT,
turns instead of being placed upon the mar
ket at from twenty i've to twenty eight p r
cent. discount. 1t cannot be denied tha
Coke made the most egregious financial err
rors, and that, too, because be would not
follow the advice of able men, fearing
Them. To surround himself with subordi-
nation has been his chlefest pride, and,
being Incompetent himself, he was of course
doomed TO meet with failure. Had he
placed himself in the hands of such men as
Rothschild or B.nng, Texas would have
been million or two dollars less in debt
to-day, but he Stunned great men, think
ing that in their shadow he might not be
ovsrshadowing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

GOVERNOR COKE said in his dinner table
speech Friday evening that they were griev
ousiy at fault if any doubted Governor
Hubbard's fitness for the highest Office il
the gift of the people of Texas. He said,
further, that At junciure like this the
oflce of Governor of :hIs msjestic COM
monwsalth, soon to become the mightiest
in the Union, was next that of the presi
dent. Especially did Senator Coke and
Governor Hubbard assert the necessity for
the maintenance of the int, gritty aud unity
of Texas. In ten years Texas would cen.
tain greater population than the mghtiest
State in the Union, and in twenty years 1t
will be without peer aud without riYal.
Then, instead OF asking, we could demand
tavors and sssert rights and resent wrongs
The proposition TO subdivide Texas, of
which We have heard from sectional men
and from those of narrow local ambition,
who cannot riSe in = broad arena whers
rivalry is strong and great men are com
psiitors, was denounced with not a little
bitterness by every speaker who advert TO
tile subject. Governor Hubbard, IN the
course of his eloquent and earnest address.
said that the troubles that now rent
the North into warning factions and en-
iangered the peace of the whole country
we're not Of our creation. 1t was not our
province TO share in any possible Conflict
of arms. That We would be silent even IS
represented in the Federal Congress In
fact, each speaker who referred to
public questions now sgitating the
country approved the policy expOunded by
the STATESMAN. We are mere spectators
Of unfortunate events that come Of causes
for the operation aud existence of which
the South is in no wise respoEsihle. The
uplifting OF men like Kellogg aud Cham
berlain and Stearns was effected by ageu-
cies devised tha, the white people of the
south might be humiliated, degraded and
enslaved, and that Radicalism might CON
troll these helpless States /. was not thar
the negro vas beloved, but she white man
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07


THE Radical papers constantly cry out
that they only want fair count Of votes.
Why this constant expression Of such a
wish9 Each governor and each returning
board and each supervisor of elections In
Louisiana and Florida is an appointec OF
Radicalism. Stearns and men like Stearns
organized the whole scheme OF elections in
Florida to cheat both whites and blacks,
and to count men into Office who were not
elected, and in Louisiana we are told abso-
iutely that the DEGREES of Wells's organized
scheme of y:fainy, called a returning
board, is final. So saith Senator Sherman
This true, We cannot understand this con-
slant prating about honesty and fairness,
unless 1t involve doubt of the integrity of
these boards and of their masters. But,
the question is settled. Grant gave the
cue when he throt,led South Carolina. The
boards know their duty, and will heartily
execute it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

MANY newspapers have no opinions till
they have secured the Forld or San or Her
aid. Capitalization is progressive in the
moral as In the physical world, aud all
ideas, like all railway lines, emaRate and
diverge from New York. Now that il. has
been telegraphed over the country that the
Herald would have Grant impeached for
his overthrow of local government Of South
Carolina, and for the invasion Of Southern
States when there was no invasion or in
surrection," and when neither governors
no: legislatures had asked for the Presi
dents Intervention, all the mere copyists
accept and approve and reproduce the prop
osition aud 90 iato ecstacies about il. The
STATESMAN received the news from South
Carolina at the same time that it went in
to the Rarald office, and the STATEslfAE
presented the same facts with the same
deductions on til. same morning that the
Herald proposed to have Grant inpeaehed
for the outrage done all the States and the
country's organic law. But the Hersld is
a great metropolitan newspaper, Published
at the hub of the worlds revolving opin-
ions, and therefore the Herald - copied and
the STATESMAN is unnonced, ssse In its
own bailiwick of Texas. The Herald op-
posed the next war and even did the
STATESMAN al iAitio fer the reason that the
sport isn't worth the candle. In fact, if
one would know what the great newspa-
pers of the country viii be saying ~ any
future period on any great question that
agItates the people, they need only sub-
scribe for the STATESMAN II never waits
for the wasoL, II copies nobody, recogs
nizes no leader aud knows M naster.
These are the facts that make tse rings
and leaders and organs Of ms1 aad Hnsr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

COLORADO has three votes IN the electoral
college. These were designed 70 be cast
for Hayes, and the legislature was elected
that it might choose these electors, which
elsewhere are chosen by the people. The
Democrats are strong enough in the legis-
lature to prevent the election of these
electors and to prevent any organization of
the legislature, and in view of outrages
perpetrated by power and knavery' in the
o-called "doubtful" States, the Demo
Gratis of Colorado are prepared, if the n;-
cessity arise, to prevent the election of the
three electors, and again Hayes is undone.
We like this programme. 1t is Northern
device. Northern men will execute it.
Rebels" are in nowise responsible for it.
And yet Grant will not suffer the legisla-
ture of Colorado to execute the scheme.
The North, in this event, will be exasper-
ated, not because Southern, but because
Northern State is denied perfect freedom
of action. Republicans will say that Col
orado Democrats proposed to do great
wrong; but they have the right to do
wrong, and Grant has no right to in
terpose, and thus the scenes are shifted and
the picture presented to the North is that
of helpless Northern State at the feet OF
the armed usurper at whose behests com
monwealths are put to death as mercilessly
rs were myriads of men when war ragged.
1t will be great pity if Wells, Chamber
lain and Stearns perjure themselves in vain.
Il ID sad to think that the Democratic
minority in the least potent and in a re-
mote and newest of States can render
nugatory the perjury and force and fraud
hourly employed in Louisiana. But they
have counted without their host who
imagine that after all this perjury and out
rage upon popular and State rights
in the South Grant will suffer
Colorado, still in its swaddliDg
clothes, to thwart his fixed purpose to make
Hayes or himself his own successor. That
proposed impeachment for outright viola
tions of constitutional law in invading
State would tax infinitely more the courage
of Congressmen than the lnfexibility of
purpose and resolutencss of Graut. He has
planned n campaign. The objective point
is the inauguration of Hayes or indefinite
protraction of his own power. Colorado
will be throttled as remorselessly as was
South Carolina, and the Congress that meets
Monday win hardly have the nerve to Crap
pie with man who hesitates not to Crap
pie even with destiny. He swore he would
support the Constitution; he has peIjured
himself in dealing with South Carolina and
pulse-bcats more or less in number, in any
hour OF his life, never betrayed an emotion
of fear OF pity or of self-accusation. The
Sphynx is not more stony or more inscruya
bic or incapable of emotion than he in
whose presence the Congress and the peo-
pie stand appalled,. avs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
WE read of two ercelIOnt ministers, not far

%Ercad of two excellont ministers, not far
away, who have surrendered their rulpits
and Texas has lost two of the best citizens
the commonwealth has known. Churches
should beware of debt. They melt under
the burden, lose respectability, members
stand from under and the irfuence for
good, Of a congregation saddled with debt,
is rapidly dissolved. 1t used to be said
that debt on church is what ballast is to
a vessel, but there is such thing as having
SO much ballast that when the wind tlows
the whole concern goes down. The Ameri
cans are enthusiastic and think they can't
have too much Of good thing. While it
may be weli enough to have a f0ating debt
II is very bad thing 10 have a sinking
debt.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

TuoMAs JEFFERSON proposed to resist
6 2 roHtraRee in the event of ''usurpstIon. 1"
When i. was proposed to count Burr into
the presidency wrongfully Mr. Jefferson
said ''that precedent Of the sort once ac-
quiesced in would end in dictator. That
was very we'll in Jeferson's time. But the
precedent he speaks of is now the law and
the usage. Il has been acquiesced in.
The Union was no more when bayonets
overturned Southern governments and set
up Ballocks, Kelloggs and Davises, and
other satraps 10 each of the Southern prov
Inces. The Federal Union drew its last
breath when Federal soldiers seized the
government of South Carolina and when
bayonets organized the Legislature and
even now shape its conduct and action.
The Union was no more when Sheridan
and an army seized New Orleans to give
courage to Wells and Kellogg and The
shameless knaves uplifted by stupidity and
corruption injected by federal law in State
ballot boxes. Jefferson died 1fty years
ago, and a thousand ordinary years in the
worlds history have elapsed. The govern
nent be knew no longer exists, and his
reasoning applies to wholly different
facts from those that now obtain.
The North could not see that the "Union"
was slowly put to death when States of the
South were subjected to slow torture and
to final extinction. They did not feel
the stroke that went to the heart Of Louis
lana when debased, corrupt and drunken
Federal Judge Durell was enabled by Fed
eral intervention to overturn u government
and destroy statehood in Louisiana. 1t
was not the Northern OK that was then
gored; but now, when Radical greed for
Office aud gold and power strikes down
New York By striking down South Carolina,
We are coolly tol1 that 'the Union is en-
dangered and We must resist" Is is too
late. We have become accustomed to the
personal government of Grant, to obedience
TO his royal mandates, to submission whom
his bayonets gleam in tropical sunlight and
our Northern ieilow countrymen must en-
dure them wh,n tipped with icicles in the
gloomy December of the coming winter in
the Federal capital. JefTerson's advice
was good aud grand seventy five years ago
when he wrote; but the North compelled
US to forget the precepts Of Jefferson by
standing idly by when we were helpless
and when States here were sbackicd aud
the people taught by hard facts that Joifer-
soc was only dreamer and enthusiast and
that American liberty and State rights are
fables Of hosr antiquity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

We never took much stock in infant bap-
tism, though we have heard much fuss
shout it, one way and another. among the
babies, and alike among their progeDitors;
but from this time forth the ''Pedos' can
count US in, and cur conversion occurred
sitter this wise. We know now ii is good
thing A two-year-old was being sprinkled
at the altar in Charleston. He neither
kicked nor yeowled, as they commonly do
when thus dedicated" !" etc. But he pa
trioticaIly stiffensd himself out. and a. the
minister spanked him gently, and the drops
Of water glistened on his sweet little face.
he exclaimed, ''Hurrah for Hamptonw
That boy has q mortgage on q corner lot
IN paradise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
CoxanEss&AN PorrER's letter defines Mr.

! CoNanEssG.S PoTTER's letter defines Mr..
Tilden's purposes end those of his party,
and there will DO no child's play in Wash
ington- Tllden's plack is as vigorous es
Grants daring and flxcdness OF purpose.
Grant has the army, but Tilden viii sooD
lave the great body Of the people at his
back. Every development Of scoundrel-
ism and outrage and of usurpAtion and Of
desPotic force in the three doubtful"
States augments the power of Tildcn before
the country, and then the wisdom and
moderation of Wade Hampton has been Of
infinite service to Mr. Tilden, even as the
raDting, ,cock-sparrow, whoop.ds.doOdle-doo
ehiyalry fellows Of the Southern pre,s have
done him all possible harm.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

THE government OF the United States
doesn't seem-to-b be very kindly disposed
to Texas. Or, II may be, that -four con
tracts are jobs such ss they managed who
supplied the Indians With whisky and gun.
powder. Here We have many Thousand
barrels Of -four furnished to the soldiers
operating along the Rio Grsnde, and while
Texas mills and Texas -four take the first
premiums at the st. Louis fair, competing
with 81. Louis mills and with Missouri
wheat, the army refuses to accept Texas
-four. In Texas Touring mills supply
the country with -four, and the
people and merchants prefer 1t 10
that imported from abroad. The army
may know more about 1ouf than common
people, bat they were adopts in the art Of
bread making who declared at 81. Louis
that the best -four exhibited ct the great
fair came from Tsxas." The atten-
tlon Of army officers and Of the country
should be called 70 these facts. Floor
made here from Texas wheat is
inferior IN nothing 70 The best
brands imported from St. Louis and cin-
cinna'i; and, everything else being equal,
il occurs 70 rs that the army ear save
freights and make money and have better
bread At less cost by buying in Texas rather
than in 81. Louis and Chicago.