The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04
Editorial Notes.

ASh no WOndu neT age. NEVER joke
with policeman. Do not play at chess
with a widow. Never contradict a
man who shutters. Be civil to rich
uncles and aunts. Your oldest hat, OF
course, tor an evening party. Always
sit next the carver, if you can, at din
ner. keep your own secrets. Tell no
human being you dye your whiskers.
Wind up your conduct, like your
watch, once every day, infinitely ex-
aiming whether you are fast or slow.
Make friends with the steward on
board steamer-there's no knowing
how soon you may be IL his power.
In the course OF an impressive eulogy
on Senator Csperton, of West Virginia,
who died last summer, Senator Ed
munds referred, on Wednesday, to the
fact that although the Senate is the
most enduring branch of TIE govern
ment in its personality. except the
judiciary, it has only three members
who held their seats during the admir-
istration of President Lincoln, and on
ly eleven who participated in the i'm
parchment trial Of Andrew Johnson in
1868. The three Senators whose terms
of service date back to the time of Pres
ident Lincoln are Mr.. Anthony, who
took his seat in 1859; Mr.. Sherman,
whose first term began IN 1861, and
Mr.. Howe, whose membership also
dates back to 1861. Mr. Cameron was
in the Senate as long ago as 1915, but
he resigned in 1861 to take the Office
of Secretary of War, and did not re-
turn to his seat until 1867. Mr.. Hanlin
although not a Senator during MIR. Liz
coins administration, presided over
the body in virtue of his office as Vice
President of the United States.
Christmas Day fell on Monday last
year. It fell on Monday also in 1868,
and on that occasion the following was
uncarthed from, it was stated, the
Hsrleian MSS, No. 1852, folio 1884:
If Christmas Day on Moadav he
great winter that year you' see,
A. full OF winds both 10 d ana shrill
But in summer, truth to tell,
High winds shall then be, and strong
Full of tempest lasting long;
While battles they shall multiply.
And gr, at plenty OF bHa-ta shall die.
They that be born thar day ween.
They shall be strong each one and keen;
He shall. be found that stealeth ausht;
Iho thou be sitk, tn II ciest lot.
The year 1866 was the year of the
Austro. PTussian war, year Of disas-
trous gales and year of cattle plague.
Again in 1871 Christmas Day fell on
a Monday. The twelvemonth follow
ing that day saw US with cattle plague
in the North and some great storms !;
but as to "battles" we must go back a
few months in 1871 for the capitulation
of Paris and the conflict with the Com
mune. We have now a Monday Christ
mas for the third time within dozen
| years.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
says that hundreds and thousands Of
Republicans are sick and tired of this
endless business of forcing carpet bag
| governments upon the South at the
point of the bayonet, and disguised ut
the thought that even in South
Carolina the officeholders can com
| mand the whole army and navy to Ike D
themselves from being turned out by
the popular vote. This state of feeling
makes itself perceptiblc in the Repub
lican newspapers. The transcript and
the AdrertiSer have virtually seceded
from the Rule-or-ruin Republicans, and
even the Journal has left off praIsing
the South Carolina board of canvassers
for "over-reaching" the Supreme Court,
and begins to emit the Southern ques-
ton in its daily obfuscations. The
patience and forbearance of the South
ern Democrats is in every way praise.
worthy. They are deserving success,
and they are going to win it. Tllden
is to be peaceably declared President,
peaceably inaugurated, and the coun-
try il to have peace from that time for
ward. The people OF the country, who
are wiser than any Of their nominal
leaders, are going TO decide this mat
ter suddenly and in the way that will
involve them in the fewest future diff
culties. That way is the Inauguration
OF new administration under Tilden.
Sixteen years ago it was the Inaugural
ton of q new administration under
Lincoln. The party names are changed
now, but the crisis demands the same
regimen "a change of administration.
All the bayonets In the country cannot
prop up power that the popular will
has condemned, whether in Columbia
or the District of Columbia. II il can
not be but that bayonets should come,
wo to him by whom they come. Our
countrymen love the soldier in bis pro-
per place, but not the State-house or
the court-r0orO