The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23
Il gitOrlaI Notes.

THE New York Herald noticing the EN-
barkation from that city last week of a
colony of negroes for Liberia, In charge OF
Bishop Haven, says: THE colored emf
grants were chiefly from South Carolina,
and of both sexes. They wore homespun
clothes, and appeared hardy, healthy set
of people, ranging in color from lampblack
to mahogany. They seemed to be rather
glad at leaving this land of liberty and
equal rights, and no doubt their minds
pictured future of glowing and perennial
happiness on Afric's sunny strand. Bishop
Haven was in fine spirits"
But is it not a little singular that negroes
emigrate from South Carolina where Sambo
rises in his boots and exclsims each day
L'etat c'est mel, when never a black man
abandons Texas on any accednt. Here, he
is a cipher in the State and his vote in
State elections is not worth 8 silver. Here,
where he is murdered and beaten and cowed
and crestfallen, as the Inter Ocean paints
the picture, he lives and will live forever
II Bishop Haven believes that the negro is
outraged in person and rights in Texas let
him come even into Wharton county or
stand or Robertson Hill and preach of exile
and the good churchmsn will be driven
from Texas by those whom be would die to
serve, of course he would, but bishops
don't like decayed eggs.
THE unique, extraordinary ex-United
States Senator and Ex-Governor of Tennes-
see, Hon. w. g. Brownlow, is always one
sided to the last degree. He believes him
self SO thoroughly RICH. that everybody
differing from him deserves cruciixion.
But whatever his follIes and enormities upon
the public stage, in private life he is
fsultless citizen. Therefore his boundless
personal popularity in Eastern Tennessee
His recent letter affecting the conduct of
affairs in New Orleans illustrates the true
and not the public character OF the man
when he says that "while he would regard
the election of Samuel J. Tilden in the
light of great national calamity, he
would infinitely prefer to see him president
for the next four years, with all the dire
consequences of Democratic supremacy in
the government, than to see Gov. Hayes
made president with the aid of a single
fraudulent vote. We may recover from
the effects of bad government under par
tisan Democratic influences, but with the
precedent once established of electing q
president with fraudulent votes We are IT.
retrievably ruined, and our boosted Repub-
lie becomes farce, hiss and g by-word
among honest men everywhere. We our
selves lose all respect for the government,
and as a matter of course forfeit the
respect and confidence Of all other civilized
nations. We become worse than Mexican
lied at once"
UNLESS money can buy honesty and place
it at the disposal OF the Returning Board
of Louisiana there is no possibility of fair
ness in the determination Of the result in
that State. Those boards were instituted
by knaves for their own uses and intended
not to prevent fraudulent elections but the
election of honest men. The people were
designed to be disfranchised and the ALSO
lutte control of those States was placed per-
manently in the hands of those to whom
the boards owed existence. It seems from
the letter written Ly Senator Sherman and
his Republican associates in New Orleans,
TO ex Senator Trumbull and other Demo-
Gratis. that the Republicans pretend to have
great respect for these returning boarda-"
TESxEssEE gives about 40, 200 majority
for TIlden. Porter, By diminished ma
jority, is reelected governor. Eight Of the
Congressman are Democrats-a loss Of one.
The legislature, which will choose two
United States Senators, has Democratic
majority of sixty on joint ballot. General
W. B. Bate will be the first Senator chosen,
and almost without opposition. The
chances are that Ex-Governor I. G.. Harris
will be the next; bur the candidates are
Judge T. W. Brown, Judge A. Wright,
john q. Crozier, James z. Bailey, John n.
Bright, w. @. Nhitfhorne. J. l. T. 6need,
Edmond Cooper, Judge Marks, ex-Gov.
Neil s. Brown, John c. Burch, Z. A James,
Alex Campbell.
II Is wholly incomprehensible and In
credible that now, SINCE the election, the
Chicago later Ocean does rot pretend 20 say
that Texans robbed Lincoln's grave.