The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
VOL. v.
"Wad Some Power the GIftie gle us
To see OuIseIs as IIhers see Us.o

"wad Some Power the GIfrie gle us
To see OuTseIs as liners see Us.''
The following letter and facts referred 20
will excite not little interest in this city
and among Thoughtful people everywhere
IN Texas. How truthful the picture drawn
of us by the London paper or by its cores
pondent We leave for our readers TO deter
mine. But when we con over the catalogue
Of deyilIsh deeds done along the Rio
Grande. we should remember that the dis
tance of the frontier from Austin is not ac-
curately reckoued in Edinbnrgh and Lon
don, or even in Boston. The only facts
published in tile East and sent abroad af-
robbery of the stage coach at San Marcos.
England and Europe see US only through
Geographic dispatches sent to New York,
magnifying and multiplying crimes as the
telescope does the stars. We have no. other
conduit pipe for the transmission Of lntelli-
gence to the Old World, to which Southern
newspapers haze not the slightest access.
The greater number of papers published
North are Radical. The government owns
and sustaIns them and the government sub
sists and is strengthened by odium attached
to Southern habits, modes Of life and think
ing. Therefore the care and skill .exer-
cised by the Inter- Ocean and like publica-
tiOns in inventing and multiplying recitals
of Southern diabolism aud in blackening
the pages of current Southern social his
tory. Mr.. Sweeney of this city sought to
sell magnificent estate, such as can be
found nowhere in England or Scotland,
within twenty miles of this city, as. adver-.
Used in another place in the STATESMAN.
and the following is the response from his
friends in Scotland:
GLASGOW, March1S, 1876. .
NJ. b Sweeney, Esq, Austin, Texas: @ Igr 5-
Dear Str-W received ON he ninth inst
your favor Of the eighteenth ultimo. AS
yet we have met with no suitable parties
who would go in tor such farm in Ie5ds.
Your State is inseparably associated in the
popular mind with revolyers. and though
this prejudice is now, we believe, very
farmer capitalists in other directions. We
shall keep the matter before us. / will be
glad if we can influence business your
way. tlsu 2 85gH .
20th.-We have delayed postinguthis to
enclose you extract from the FGnsityS
Herald of this week-a respectable, and
largely-read journal, published in London.
The effect OF such statements must be very
to a State whose great want, we
believe, is the want of capital to utilize and
develop its great resources. has1r. l5sI =
Yours, faithfully, 4 d
MASON Bros. & Co. 81
The London Family Herald above men
toned says: l-.,
st. George writes to warn intending emf
grants against Texas. Il could have
bought" he says, 'any amount of land for
five cents or two pence halfpenny an acre
rich black land, where the cotton plant
would grow into a tree; but l would not
give an English sovereign for ten thousand.
Nothing but rattlesnakes or alligators can
live on it. Up the county, in the bald
PRAIRIE the climate is better, but the dis,
trict is twenty miles from wood and water,
so that it would cost the settler twenty
times the value of the land TO fence his
farm. In Northern Texas the, lcSterpillars
come down occasionally and eat up every
living green thing for hundreds of square
miles. In Southern Texas the Jlong
droughts-it hardly ever rains there-rare
very unfavOrable for farming operations,
and tho M.N,icanS- urnrSe- than Indians
for nelghbors In Eastern Texas, among
the swamps and pine forests, land is cheap,
but requires a great deal of clearing, ana
the climate Is very unhealthy. l was taken
i'll with chills and fever there last May, and
have not got we'll yet. 1 have been doctor
i studied medicine at London hospital
-school-teacher, farmer, well-digger, rail
splitter, have worked at a saw-nll, and, in
fact, have turned my hand'to' almost every
thing, and, after all, came bone poorer
than l went out. The fact is, there is no
capital in the country. never could col
lect my fees when / practiced medicine.
AS teacher of State free school my salary
varied from forty dollars to sixty dollars
and seventy dollars per month, but it was
very seldom paid" Comment on our part
is unnecessary. st. George concludes with
the words, Il have been North and South,
and my advise is, Don't go to the States !;
they may do for German or a NIgger, but
they will not suit an Englishmsn.' This
is widespread opinion. We have not
quoted half the troubles that st. George
relates; and from almost universal testi-
mony we believe that the British dominIons
in any part of the globe are to be preferred,
but even they at the present time are some
what verstocked with emigrants. i.l4-
This writer is quite as successful inImis-
representing facts of soil, climate, produc-
tions, poverty and riches, as the Inter; Ocean
in its recitals of devilish, .nurderops deeds
alleged to be done in : Texas, and these
supposed bloody incidents have done in
finitely more mischief than all the absurd
distortions of financial and physical and
geographical facts that have been diffused
by "St. George" and all the SAINTS Of his
sort over Europe. The facility with which
drunken roughs and coarse bullies handy
''the lie," and swiftness with which
thoughtless victims avenge the insult prof
fered by those who cannot insult gentle
man-no gentleman uses such language-
these are the social facts that prevent immi-
grafton, prevent the accession Of wealth
and decency to the population ofItowns, re-
press business activity and make civilized
men, when we 60 abroad, contemplate us
with share of horror. The first duty OF
decent people in Texas consists in the adop-
ton of 4 code of morals and of a ''public
opinion" which render murder sssFecesssvs
and the substitution, of a.eode under which
each man who takes life or attempts it will
be hanged instantly. -'-'Ai -
ROWS AND RUMORs OF ROWS ANn
REMOVALS AND RINGS AND RAIL
WAY REGULATIONS IN TEXAS. 80