The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28


from st. Louis to Kansas City, 325
miles. Nobody travels, save from COM
pnlsory necessity, over Missouri rail-
way. True, we do have highwaymen
here and there in Texas, and foot-pads
and cattle and horse thieves along the
Mexican border; but TO repress the
yIeIsnos Of these people we maintain
dashing cavalry forces, and the daring
Bedohins Of the desert are rapidly del
mated OF driven into Mexico. In
Missouri, on the contrary, the robbers
are indiscriminate murderers; ours,
having q spice of the devil, have also
characteristics OF admirable generosity
and gallantry. We find them taking
Of their hats to the women and de
prving them Of nothing, and only say
ing, in politest terms, to gentlemen
travellers that they must stand and de-
liver. They are much more respects-
BILE, these Texas bandits, than count
less sneak-thieves and rOpers-in for
gambling bells in st. Louis, and q
thousand fold more to be spplauded
than the remorseless, cowardly, indis-
criminate murderers of men, women
and children, who, everywhere in Mis-
souri,, displace rails that passenger and
express trains may he wrecked and
peoples bones broken and skulls
crushed, and that the MANNED and
helpless may be roasted under wrecked
cars. For all that the Missouri GIobe-
Democrat, regular God-and-liberty
and negro-crazed organ of Blaine and
Butler, hating Hayes and decency and
truth, inveighs against the morals Of
Texas and gloats over Marshal Pur-
nelPs letter ascribing to the people of
Texas as vices the very qualities that
make US more admirable in
Gods eyes than self-rightcous
slanderers of this commonwealth
who conduct the Globe-Dem0crdt. 1t
10 Democratic in nothing and globular
of lies. We send a good-looking
youth OF twenty-one years, who rode
out ON the open plain alone and halted
and plundered stage coach, passen-
gers and mailbags, to the penltentiary
for life. Such was the generous judg-
ment OF our Federal Court; and we
read in each days UCmOerdt how base
pickpockets and sneaking burglars
and incendiaries are ''sent up" for q
few months or years. Villains OF
Missouri, whose vices are unsdulterat-
ed by a single sentiment or quality OF
heroism Or virtue or generosity, are
not punished with half the severity
that distinguishes the fortunes of Ham
White, and yet, while these facts are
unquestioned and Texas expends more
money to maintain order along the
confines of Mexico than any State for
such purpose, this Missouri newspaper,
that prints lies for partisan ends, and
simply to make the South and the
President odious, reckless Of practical
brutality, naturally engendered by
base newspaper press, the GlOJe-DemO-
crat inveighs against us that the
worlds attention may be diverted from
Its own infamies. begotten by its base
ness among its own people.
We would not read with patience o
newspaper that always followed some
fle-leader; that has no peculiar fan
cies or opinions or creed of its own.
We like men of strong idiosyncracies,
% we do newspapers of the same sort,
aud nothing is so intolerably dull and
asinine rs n solemn old sheet that
comes granting along each week and
month and year, repeating itself and the
platforms Of parties cobbled together
that the many may be humbugged and
support and enrich the few. We be-
lieve in the largest liberty of opinion
and think none the less of those who
differ from us in matters Of religion
or politics. But when an intelligent
newspaper, like the Gtobe. Democrat,
deliberately lies about US and does us
Sbsolute pecuniary injury iu order to
injure our party and people and the
President of the United States, who
deals generously and justly with these
Southern States-under such cIrcum-
stances we cannot refrain from saying
that such q newspaper deserves exc
Grafton and should be excluded from
our towns and railways. We might
a. we'll diffuse poison in the very air
we breathe as newspapers that make
mankind believe Texas the choicest
abiding place Of knavery and murder
and robbery and wrong. Beware of
the Missouri Globe. Democrat. Its chief
loAstor Is renegade Democrat, its
name significant OF regeneration and
treason, and Its policy the prescription
of Southern people and States and the
overthrow Of Hayes because of his JUS
tice to the South. Above and beyond
al this the Globe Democrat, existing in
the midst of organized vice and crime
and OF railways lined with men worse
than tends sacrificing hecatombs Of
human creatures for q few dollars
sach newspaper, in such a State,
would make the world believe that
Texas Is the special chosen dwelling.
place Of duellists, murderers, thieves
and bandits, and that here no decent
gentleman can live and think or tell
what he thinks. The Globe Democrat
and the later Ocean are pariahs of the
press; they are be-poxed and leprous
and should be thrust out.
DESIGNS OF THE ANNEXATION
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