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

THE Pittsburg Magnet intimates and
STATESMAN sought TO have the Legislature
recommend that We might do the public
printing-because, forsooth, we are nearly
starved out" If the Hdgaet will con over
the advertisements Of the STATESMAN, and
those that adorn its daily extra" the iu-
nuendo made will be wholly withdrawn and
the reckless assertions of the papers become
demonstrably absurd. That newspaper
which lives by public patronage or depends
upon it for prosperous existence must be
basely truculent and bend before party lead
ers and managers. The STATEsMAH, IS
everybody knows, paddles it's own canoe
and defes alike dcnunciation, pufferg and
partisans. It is moreover true that when
it has nothing and asks nothing at the
hands Of power, except that which its cir
lation commands, it was never more pros
porous and never needed less the smiles OF
authority or of those seeking Office. The
Magnet has done us injustice and should
make amends. Ii may be proper to add that
the STATESMAN has never urged the convo-
cation of the Legislature BY Gov. Hubbard.
We are perfectly willing that this ques-
ton of an extra session shall work out its
own end. Those who are opposed to one
now may soon be clamoring for it. How
long district judges and other State off,
GERS may conclude to endure starvation on
deprecated State paper We are unable to
judge, but the day viii come when they
can staai the pressure no longer. But the
States distresses come in great measure
through the multiplicity of courts, and If
the judgeships are vacated, and the courts
cease operation the people may become the
benefciaries.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

NORTH CAROLINA owes forty-tvo millions
and thirteen millions of unpaid interest,
and yet the thieves who created this debt
and wasted the resources of the once pros
porous State would still have people en-
trust them with power and Office, and eveH
Grant sustains with the bayonet in South
Carolina those who have impoverished that
once stainless old commonwealth. Until
the beneficent carpet-bagger came with saw
ago suffrage to be used as n stool pigeon,
the credit of the two CarolInas was as good
as that of the Union, and rates of taxation
were as low as in New ENGLAND.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

RenKRT c. WINTHROP, who wears worth.
lily, and by divine rights of genius and pa
trlotism, the mantle Of Henry Clay, spoke
with Evarts in New York when webster's
statue was unveiled. 1t is pity that such
men as Winthrop, Adams and Evarts can
not fill the country's highest offices. They
are of that mighty army of great men of
whom the world is not worthy, and are only
honored by the wise, and by the many when
they live no longer. Death Eliminates with
startling brilliancy the temple that genius
even as it casts bsleful shadows
of oblivion over the sepulchre of demagog-
iayn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

RELIoIoS is sometimes undertaken for
worldly ends. A man in Raleigh purchased
lottery ticket, and then went to his
clergyman and asked If he thought bis
chances of drawing a prize would be i'm
proved II he should become ''sorter good
and join the church." The clergyman
tried to explain that If he should really be-
come "sorter good" he would destroy the
lottery ticket, and the man went away with
the feeling that religion is ''curus kind Of
thing, after ALL" -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

BY majority of 500, 600 Tilden is pre-
ferred tc Hayes by the people OF the United
States. Remove the blacks, who had no
choice and voted for Hayes, and of the re-
naming voters of the country million
more voted for Tilden than for Hayes. To
make the latter president, in the face of.
these facts, through the interyenuUn -uf
base-born returning boards, is an outrage
too coarse and violent TO be endured by
common self-resPect or by any common
sense of right. Northern Republicans will
not tolerate the infamy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

"BULLDozR" aud bulldoEing" ore
terms having origin in Louisiana. A year
ago the negroes began to desert their polit-
icl societies and masters. To stop this
the famous "Unon Rights Stop" was Or
ganized. A negro suspected of treason to
Radicalism was warned thrice. Failing to
reform, he was captured, tied and lashcd
with a bull whip at night within the socie-
ty's hall. II he resisted and were obsti-
nate the members in succession would
''dozc" him with the bull whip, aud hence
the word 81 bulldoze," that has gone into
the Unabridged.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

THE Albany Argus, OF November 20, dis.
eusses the political question in style
which should lead the honest people of the
United States TO hope that thieves and con-
spirators have not yet obtained absolute
possession of the country. Whilo Grant
takes possession of Scuth Carolina, and his
officers issue or refuse passes to members
elect Of the Legislature, the people of the
whole Union look on and wonder whether
the obliteration of the last vestige of free
dom viii be tolerated. The case of South
Carolina affects Massachusetts, or New
York, or Ohio, and while liberty to US at
the South appears to be throttled, there Is
manliness at the North. There Is yet con-
fidence in the patience and courage of the
people of the Northern States, and hope
may yet be entertained that truth will
triumph and the villains who have plum
dered the South meet their deserts at the
hands OF the men of the North. The 4rgus
says:
By patient courage in the present crisis,
the Democracy will win the recognition of
their rights from fair-minded and conserva-
tive citizens of all parties, and extort from
Congress itself declaration that Mr.. Til
den has been elected President. The New
York Eretiag Post speaks for cla's of citl-
zens who have Jeen honestly troubled with
the hallucination that solid South was
something to be feared. But these citizens
also know that a repetition of the infamies
of the Louisiana returning boards would be
disastrous. The Pest says:
Whoever imagines that the Republicans
of the North are aSoused and in earnest in
this matter merely because they desire the
election of their candidate for President at
all hazards imaglnes q vain and absurd
thing. The Republicans of tine North insist
that there shall be fair count of the votes
fairly cast, and that if upon such count
Governor Hayes shall appear to be elected
he shall not be kept out of the Office by
Democratic clamOr and bravado. AS they
will take nothing less than their rights, so
they will take nothing more.
John Sherman and his co-conspirators
may as well abandon the purpose to crowd
false count through the returning board,
and into the hands of the President Of the
SeDate of the United States, to be announced
by him without impartial inquiry into the
equities of the transaction. Republicans
will never ask it; Democrats will never
concede it. To force the conspiracy through
will be disastrous and unjustifiable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

BECAUSE we have said, and said because
We believed it, that Governor Hayes is an
honest gentleman, the Bolton Rsriese calls
the STATESMAN "goodLOrd, good-devil
sort of concern" The goodness Of the
Lord is not questioned, we believe, and il
We doubt the generosity Of the devil, tho
Reriee's fate In this world and the next is
to be commiserated. Therefore we are q
''good-Lord, good-devil " concern. 1t Is
native, unadulterated goodness that makes
US such. But the truth is that the STATES
NAN is one Of the few papers that has tho
hsrdihood to say what 1t thinks even ii
we must do justice to an adversary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

WOMEN of this latitude can't follow
Northern fashions, tho peculiarities of
which consist mainly in the use of furs and
in their relative costliness. Furs are not worn
even by animals that have to pay nothing
for them III tropical countries, but now and
then neat young damsel must let it be
known that she has dipped into Broadway
by rigging herself out like an Esquimsux
belle on Sunday. The fashion papers say
that dolmen are restored to favor. That
may be true down East, but our girls pre-
fer six-footers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

TO-DAY Governor Coke goes through
the form of turning over the executive Of
dce to Lieutenant Governor Hubbard. It
is hoped and believed the latter gentleman
will endear himself tc the people of Texas.
and render the public much valuable SER
vice. He is broad-mindcd and whole,.
souled gentleman, and while for seven
years past such attributes have not particu-
Iarly clustered around the States chief ex-
ecutive officers it is hoped people have not
forgotten how to cultivate them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

We DO not wish TO be forced need
lessly and violently into war even By Grant
or by the party leaders at Washington. and
therefore IL happens that when Congrvss
meets many governors Of many States, As
Tilden will, must convene legislatures.
The safety Of the country depends upon
these consultations among the immediate
representatives Of the people Our IeRi--
IatuFe may meet 20 preserve the peace We
do net propose TO take stock in the next
var.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

y. VI. gH
The effect Of this suspension of the pres
idency, like Mahomet's coffin, IN aess5i5as,
Is recognized even now and even here.
Prudent men find themselves forced to re-
ject new enterprises; they keep capital
locked up; it renders securities uncertain; &;
it multipl1es the number of those unem-
ployed; it will thus augment a thousand
fold the distress among the multitudes of
the poor in Northern cities and States it
will embarrass every branch of popular in
dustry and the operations Of every trades
man and banker. Cold will slowly but
surely advance in value, and capital will
withdrawn itself from channels of trade and
speculation. Such are boons for which the
people ar s;"dcbted to knavery in partisan
ship, t2,SShRss' practices incident neeessa-
rily tfted and d. shs csfsK'st fsKtert of
calamity beyond these, involving tire free
dom and integrity of States and substitu-
ton of the empire for the republic. are sim
ply moasurelcss. But, as We stated several
days ago, if Grants intervention In the af
fairs of South Carolina be tolerated, the
republic is no more, and Grant is dictotor
Will the House have the audacity to bring
tho President to the bar of the Senate? |?
viii he obey, as did Andrew Johnson2
Will not all these events and facts prove
disastrous to the last degree to tie coun-
try's repose and prosperity, and can no final
remedy be spplied1 Must we still have
brutal suffrage unrestricted and unrestrain-
edl Shall votes determining the fate of
towns, counties, States aud of the Union
be always for sale in market overt. Super
vising and returning boards and inspectors
of elections aud the intervention Of United
States marshals at voting places cause the
unutterable foulness of the ballos-box. We
would not only have peace now, but threush
many coming years, and that the aspirs-
tions of patriotism may be finally achieved,
the reforms of which we speak must be ef.
fpcfa6
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

HoN. ADRIAN MURDOCH, for many year
president OF the railway company owning
the line from Cairo TO Mobile, was in Aus
tin Thursday. He had just returned from
Mexico where he. manages most successfully
the affairs of great silver mining COM
pany. Mr.. Murdock was often the leader
Of the people of Mississippi in political
contests. He is a capital speech-maker and
in personal appearance, dimenrions and
ponderosity, is the peer Of Alexander
Stephens.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

Two OF the prettiest girls in Poughkeep-
sic have bet on the election. Whichever
wins is to perform the feat OF Lady Godiva
along the leading street OF Poughkeepsie.
II any don't know what this was, read
rennyson. But after the election. is de-
cided by the wretched returning boards,
there won't be fellow in Ponghkeepsie
who can sleep wink for month. No
body knows at what hour the losing girl
will make the trip.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

GOVERNOR HAYES, We are told, has writ
ten to his quondAm school-feliow, Hon.
Guy N. Bryan, that he and others need
have no fears Of final wrong and for the
simple reason that, whatever the DEGREES Of
returning boards and Of bsyopets and
Chamberlain and stearns, he, Governor
Hayes, will not accept the presidency un-
less he be the choice Of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

AND now it is stated ''by authority" that
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road will
be extended at once from Denison TO Fort
Worth, to which point the wAco Branch Of
the Texas Centrrl will be Immediately ex-
tended. Austin is thus again left in the
Iurcb, and the area Of possible trade for
Austin is narrowed. In the face Of these
grievous facts no one seems TO ctre whether
the narrow gauge to Lampasas be built or
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

II anybody send letter for publication
to a newspaper, it becomes the absolute
properly of the paper, and it can make any
omissions or corrections 1t sees proper. The
reason is simple. 1t costs money 10 print
documents. and they may be too long; or,
the editor being responsible in court and
before the public for what is printed, his
properly iu The article and right to reform
u nnat Le absolute.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

was abhorred. 1t was not that ''rebels''
were dreaded, but knaves wanted plunder.
1t was not the country's good, but place
mems greed that reduced US to that pitiabe
state endangeriDg the country's. peace and
the very stability of government, even Of
this mockery of the old Union. For nore
of these painful facts is the South RESPONSE
bic. We set up none of these wretched
systems that dishonor republicanism in the
governments of Louisians, Florida and
South Carolina. They who approved like
crimes against civilization and human free
dom and decency in Texas were non com
POtes and mankind pities their ignorance
and dep'ores that cowardice which made
demagogues tremble when it was proposed
here to restrict suffrage and thus render
the elevation of stupidity and scoundreiism
impossible. Il the speech makers at the
festival corcurred, when allusion was made
to existing events that oyershadow the
Union, in declaring that the part assigned
Texas in possible tragedy was simple in
action.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

VIZ never knew before that Logan was
espsble Of an emotion Of decent moGesty.
He once pronounced Kellogg, Of Indiana,
the supposed Governor OF LouisiaDs, an
infamous rascal, aud Logan is sill Of the
same way Of thinking A. d couldn't well
sustain his party N LouisiAna without stall
tsfyinR himself.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
Purely " getsb

eoutainIn. those Southern OTIS and herbs which
an Alwlse tr,viaen has placed In coun r;cs where
Liver Disesses most prcvND n trii ~ Diseases
cuaAed 6y DsyGaseasest ef ths LsreT dRd boirss.
The SN MPr Ms OF LAYER Complaint n bl ter
faa tsstc I, the mouth; Pam In the Bices sidssgr
J iu's often mistaken Tor Rhcria atisn; SoR- SioSa
acA I0ss Of Appe tte; Bo els Alterna ely tive
and lax; Head, ,ehe; loss of Eaoy. with panfu
sensation OF htving fale- 20 som hing whi h
Ought 10 have done; Driiity Lotr spirits thick
yellow appe rance O tn kin. kyes, a dry Cough
eftea mistakes for Consumption.
Sometimes many % these symptoms s'tou@ the dis
ease ~ others very fe~; but III" LIVER the l,rzest
organ the body generally the Of the disease,
aud if regn ate IN time great suffo in, etched
ness and DE ATH viii Q sae.
can recommend a an efic4cious remedy for dis
case Of the Liver Heartburn and d. spepsia. sun
mons's Liver hegu uRIor LAwls :. NrS ER,
f6sS Master street,
Assistant Pos 'naSstet, PhilAdel phia
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

TIE Constitution is opposed TO the election
Of 9 president and vice president from the
same State, sDd therefore # the Senate
sIect Wheeler Vice President the House
cannot elect Tliden or sfce rGrsa, and are
We not In . pretty p.ckles
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
NO. II

BRUCE, the negro United States Senator
and q respectable man and an excellent
sheriff Of his county some years ago in
Mississippi, says the election, as conducted
in his State, was great farce. There was
no violence or terrorism, but 'it was
funny, says Mr.. Bruce. And now comes
that emlnently good man, the special IA
yorite of Grant He is Grants Chamber.
lain, the South Carolina man of straw who
tells US that the election in South Carolina
was fraud and farce, a1d that we have
been cheated" Everybody concurs in
pronouncing tho scheme Of universal suit
frsge, in all its incidents, farce and a
fraud, aud now, when its developments are
q out to plunge the country into civil war,
the cowardly party leaders propose no re-
form and no adeqIste remedy for the evils
confessed even by Bruce and Chamberlain.
or course elections in the South are farci-
cal
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

The testimony of the coiored dam-scl.
Eliza Pinkston, before the Wells board
was startling. but wholly unrsiisbie. Her
conduct and character remind m Of the
black wench who went before WaaAbanse's
smelling committee that sat in Henphis in
1867, to investigate the negro and gLrish
riots. This pleasing wousR,. when shs came
before The CoDgressmen, wore . black silk
dress, rustic chiguon made Of moss dyed
black from Louisiana i7e-oak. Red rib
bons flashed about her brswny person even
as did all the odors of che pharmacies.
She was very black, and with infinite self
possession did she recite the incidents of
two terrible days and nights when war
ragged between pinch" and ''Sodom," IS
the northern and couthern districts of the
city are classically denominated. 1t made
ones hair stand on end. She told of chill
dren thrown into smouldering ruins Of
burned cabins of brawling brats-picanin-
uies-toted off on the bayonet's poiat, of
women violated, and how even abe herself
was thus outraged again and again. We
remember how Washbsrne grew pale and
faint and, remembering his friendship for
Grant, took little toddy, and the other
Radical member of the commission went
out to pray, and the Democrat, Ken
lucky Congressman, was left swooni1g
alone in the apartment still redolent of
perfumes of delicious Truth and virtue.
She had been rgidly cross-examined and SO
plaintlvely ald with such exquisite pathos
did she recite misdeeds done by the terrible
policemen and by the reckless Winters, who
led the rioters, and 80 agonized was her
manner when she told of the personal sa-
guish she had endured and of the shame to
which her exquisite modesty and virtue had
been ruthlessly subjected bJ the basest of
men that tho Democratic nember of the
commission was almost delirions when the
splendid but ruined woman sailed gorgeous
ly away.
A city was degraded in the eyes of ci.ili-
zation by the ''tongued and groo<ed" lies
which this shameless man in wonaA's ap-
parel told of the people of Memphis. Wash
burne anu his kindly "pal" in Radicaiism
honestly believed every word uttered by the
besotted, brutal creature whose whole life
was living lie. The supposed woman
was man. lie had been trained to lilo by
the Kelloggs and Wells of Memphis, and
50 skillfully that his recitals were made
part of the record of the proceedings Of q
grave and honest and most intelligent con.
gressional commission. Here in Louisiana
We have Just another such witness who Lies
with the same facility, and the piet5 and
simplicity and unadultcrated goodness Of
the whole country, when ne opportunity to
introduce rebutting or explanatory facts is
given, is shocked and outraged as when
the ioul-mouthed negro man, in woman's
clothes, sent poor Washburne's heart far
down into the seat Of mis- breeches. In fact,
be went to France that in the delights of
the gay French capital he might recover
from the rude shock to which the tender
nerves of the discoverer Of Grant were sub
Jectcd by the Eliza Pinkston of Memphis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

A DrsPATcE from Tallahassee says: 'sWe
still hope that . fair count is possible. In
this event the Dsnoerssy have carried the
hsais.'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

and of those who have parceled out the
Offices among themselves aud friend. hate
and slander the STATESMAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

nRY GOODS
L. AND
GR0 . ER II -.
Constantly N~siying and selling
FARMING IMP. NIE.NTS.
uARD9ARs. woopwARE. TISwARE.
HATS. BOOTS AND SHOES.
A speciality Made for stoek,nens
a spee,aity ,ssde for travellers.
An County rsoaaee bought and sold.
s,r,cs sstsnsUa ,. 70 recesxins aad forwarding BY
w. IL tUL4fAN,
ssysIso pss Eio, Einnsy scanfy Texsss
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