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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

SINCE few stupid fellows, who
never think, have seen proper to assail
the STATESMAN, the question is properly
presented: What real difference does
it make whether the South is emanci-
pated and Its local rights restored by a
Democratic or Republican PRESIDENT 2
1t is only the thing that Is important.
Whether this or tho other party gets
the credit of 1t is of no real conse-
quence, provided the thing is done. II
the country existed for the sake of the
officeholders and not the officeholders
for :he sake of the country, it might
make a difference whether the South
gets Its rights from one party or the
other; but II Mr.. Tilden was correct,
the all-important thing is the end, and
the means arc subordinate. We do
not see how any honest Democratic
Senator can refuse to take the side of
Mr.. Hayes against his assailants in his
own party when they denounce and
bull-doze him for his intention to give
thu South the inestimable blessing of
local self government.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29


The New Orleans Times says that its
latest advioes from Washington will
lessen the great opinion the country
had formed Of the flrmness and cour-
age OF Mr.. Hayes. The President has
very plain and SIMPLE work before
him; but if he is weak enough to be
influenced or controlled in any meas
urG by those leaders of his party who,
for ten years, have kept the country
in turmoil and the civil power under
the heel of the military, he will find a
business upon his hands which neither
he nor his cabinet 70. his army car
settle except through .bloodshed, luir
and devastation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

If newspaper have neither intelli
gence nor pluck ii should have no
opinions and espouse no side in con-
troversy. On the contrary, a news
paper is expected to think and to have
opinions, or it is valueless to many.
Right or wrong. it must havn nnH~io
tions and fight for them US honestly as
they are entertained and then journal.
lists will always be respected even by
those whom they would destroy OF
convince of error. Those newspaper
people who dare not talk on the whis
ky question should retire to private
Ifn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

If Herschel V. johnson be placed !,
as is now promised, upon the Supreme
Court bench in substitution for David
Davis, the court will have lost nothing
but gained much in ability, learning,
morals and patriotism. Hayes will do
more honor to himself and his sense OF
night and to the wisdom OF the Amcri-
can people by making this appoint
meht than by any possible concession
to Northern partisan prejudices. Il.
V. johnson made, we believe, the
ablest and most conservative speech
ever delivered in the Confederate Sen
ate at Richmond. He was of the peac'
party when Alex Stephens and Judge
Campbell had an interview with Presi
dent Lincoln, in 1s64-5, and never con
Cured with the secessionists of 1901
He is wise and philosophical as Plato
and however great jurist is create
statesmAn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
Is GALVESTON DOoMEDr

A city's selfshness, like that of an
individual, often overleaps itself.
Couarless cities, years ago, when Ig-
norance was bliss, and folly made them
wise, have been bankIupted because
railways went by and around that were
not suffered, by local seidshness, TO GO
through. Galveston has been smitteu
fesrfully by this purblind folly. Its
wharf company administered slow poi
son, which by day ard night has been
tugging at Galveston's heartstrines.
But Morgan has given the final aud
fatal thrust. When still waging dead
ly war against local selfshness and the
wharf company Of Galveston, he seized
five hundred miles of railway lines
converging at Houston ami gave them
terminus on his ship channel. Gal
weston is staggered, and the people of
the hAttened island are, to use home
ly phrase, themselves "f4ttened out"
Prices of property in Galveston are fat,
the place and its beach and the MIR
murlng sea are fit like the hopes of
the people, which even the Neirs dsres
not FILTER" and the only agency that
can lift up the sandy hillocks of specu-
lation that cleaned not long ago so
brightly in the eye of speculation in
Galveston "bars, 'banks" and beach
es, is the progressive railway from
Galveston to Brenham and to Belton
on the one hand and Austin on the
other. Morgan and Houston and the
ship channel can only lind worthy COM
petitors in Hurley and the air line rail-
way from Galveston to Ell Paso. There
is no other remedy for the commercial
calamity wrought out by the wharf
company, and Galveston must rise at
once with the pressure Of calamities
or she is undone. Hesitation is fatal.
Property values will begin to tell the
story of decline; business will stalk
along the strand with totterlng steps,
and fatal paralysis beset the muscles
and slnews of trade. Nothing but de-
cisive, vigorous action, like that of
Morgan when he slew the great New
Yorker and sent Grow stricken with
disappointment from which he will
never rally" to Hot Springs, can pre-
vent the dissolution of Galveston, and
we may yet read of 1t as OF "ancient
Tyre and Sidon, that fishermen, where
the once proud city stood, now dry
their nets.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

RABLLE government in force for fif-
teen years in the city of Memphis has
resulted at last in the bankruptcy of
the city, In the destruction of property
values, and In the creation of intolera-
bic public burdens. The State T."uis-
lature has enacted q law placing the
bankrupt corporation in the han Is of
receiver. Its business is destroyed, IFS
credit lost and its people are overburden-
ed with taxation. Such are the results
against which the Rutabaga Constitu,
tion of Texas provides by making pro-
gress and prosperity impossible. In.
stead of giving the government of
corporations to those who sustain them
and pay the cost of their maintenance,
Texas turns them over to the tender
mercies of tramps and roughs and then,
to save these local governments from
utter and instant ruin, makes the pres
ecution of any scheme of public bene-
hcence impossible. Taxpayers alone
can make expenditure possible; but
taxpayers will not suffer the represen-
tatives of tramps and roughs to expend
the tar they would impose upon them
selves to build narrow gauge towards
Ell Paso. And yet, without this road,
Austin must 60 to decay or stand still
for many years. The cowardice of
demagogues works infinite evil and
may bo even more ruinous than Igno-
rance itself in constituti onal law max
ing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

THE Marshal OF the District OF
Columbia commonly discharges the
functions of Grand Chamberlain at the
White House and introduces distin-
guished women and other guests and
visitors. President Hayes, we presume,
doesn't want any such people to bother
him. He means business and there
fore makes Fred Douglass Lord High
Chamberlain, more commonly called
Marshal of the District" The papers
say, however, that Fred was given to
understand that he was expected to
give the White House wide berth on
state occasions. Some Of the piou,
Northern papers seem to think that
Hayes blundered in making the ap-
pointment and that Fred should have
been made port collector at Boston,
and the functions of grand intro
ductory politisse would have been more
charmingly discharged by Tie smooth.
brewed Ben Butler.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

THE London Times says that il there

The London Times says that il there
are fewer emigrants than there used to
be, it is because emigration has done
It's work thoroughly, and has pretty
we'll equalized the wages OF labor in
the two hemispheres. If the move
ment of population hes finished its
work as between Europe and America,
it has not al any rate got through, as
far as its distribution over the surface
of the United S.; tes is concerned. The
Republic is very unevenly settled.
The North Is too crowded in some parts
and the South is too vacant. Part of
the work of the next ten years will be
to equalize population in the national
territory at home, and this will he pro-
6table both for the several States and
the people themselves. If million or
two intelligent people of the admirable
industrial classes which may be found
in the manufacturing cities of the
North should remove to the South
during the next few years, it would be
to the advantage of all concerned. The
South is appealing for settlers, and can
furnish land, work and wages to all
who may come. The crowd in North
ern cities would be relieved, and there
would be more to do and better wages
for those who remain. Considering
the national and personal advantages
of a movement of population toward
the South, it is gratifying to notice
that one has seriously begun. Last
year 800, 900 people came into Texas
s'one; and there is small bu! steady
flow toward Georgia and Florida al
ready in progress. Skillful, indus.
trious men, who arc tempted by what
they hear from emigration agents to go
from England or America to Australia,
should understand that they will do far
better In the long run to remain at
home, but the arguments against Texas
are fewer and fewer each year. Mod
ern ideas in morals and politics are
taking deep hold In this common
wealth, and when life Is safe and per-
sonsl rights secure and sober, indus
trIcus populations govern towns and
counties, there can be conceived of no
more attractive country than Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

On the main Helena road from the
coast at IndiaRola to San Antonio,
abopt fifty miles from San Antonio,
there Is 8 edTrita wooden wheel "a cart
wheel sawed from tree and hole
bored through it for the axlo). When
the wsF ragged between the American
and German wagoners aud Mexican
carrita drivers some thirty OF the latter
were killed and their edrritGs burned.
This wheel was preserved a. trophy
by the victors and placed In the forks
Of . small mesault tree, q branch of the
tree having been run through the
wheel. The tree has grown great and
the wheel has been uplifted aad now
it towers abo7s the road and eact
passer-by, as he locks upward, stops Il
recall and recount the memories Of The
olden time when the wagon supplAnted
the earritG even Is the railway has q
last supplanted the wagon and the mar
row gauge the mustang.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
THERE IS MONEY an 1T "AND
LOTS OF IT'D

The Longview Ne~ Era commends
itself to descent, intelligent people. 1t
is the staunch expounder of good
morals, stands by prohibition and OF
course has q wide circulation. The
best and most intelligent people are the
readers Of newspapers, and immoral
people rarely read. Aen can't have
dollars for dissipation and vice, and
dimes for the papers. Their immor
ality consumes their dollars, and the
neYsboy sings in vain his tireless
chant, "'Ere's your mornin paper!"
The intelligent, honest farmers of the
country are the staunchest adherents of
the STATEsMAN. Everywhere in Texas,
and especially in counties around the
capital, INDUSTRIOUS and intelligent
farming populations and village mer-
chants constitute the STATEsMAN's
great resource. These, too, are they
WHO buy most and pay for the
goods sold in Austin, aud to these are
the advertisements Of Austin tradesmen
addressed. The very reason that i'm
pels Bengener to set up his sIgaboard
over his door. with the picture of a
cooking stove, impels him to multiply
this signbeard by $500 and set it up
jn each copy of the STATESMAN
that enters these counties and towns
and tells OF the wonderful stoves
everywhere. Hengener, too, always
inquiries, when he proposes to
advertise, whether the news
paper he employs be adapted
to the tastes and modes of thinking
| and intelligence of the class who would
buy the choicest stoves. lie is GER
tainly conscious that the STATESMAN is
taken by industrious, moral people.
In fact, Bengener said yesterday that
he differed often from the STATESMAN,
byt experience had taught hin that he
could trust any maG who liked it and
read it and was u subscriber to it. Ii
Is q fearless, outspoken journal, pan
dering to the pr jliices OF nobody and
OF NJ party q Glsss or race, but tell
ing on the spot, at the instant, what it
thinks about every I C. and opinion
that comes before tbs country. The
| policy Of the Longview paper is very
like that Of the SFAFEsMAN and well
n,sy it boast VI the character and vir-
tues of its readers. Happily for news
papers Of its class, its adherents are
not emily the best men of the country,
bat the very fact that they are just and
upright ID all things enables them to
make end retain money. Property
and good morals and habits and sobri-
ETY. are generally concomitant facts,
and the sober newspaper is necessarily
the best possible advertising medium.
1t is sober people who pay for what
they buy, and therefore the appear
snce in the STATESMAN of the adver
tissments Of those who, 60 about with
sound heafs on steady shoulders.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

SENATOR ALCoRN doesn't love the
carpet-baggers. They and Ames beat
him by honeyfuggling the colored man
and brother in Mississippi, and the
Senator is not of those that readily
forget or forgive. The Washington
Union says:
Ex-senator Alcorn has a high opin.
ioE of the taot and .hrewdness of The
carpet-baggers. Here said he, tie
other day, I've been fighting the ras-
calls for years, and now, in order to in.
jure me, they giyo out that am theil
candidate for cabinet position.
Mighty sharp fellows, those Carpet.
baggers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

A coRREsPosDEST Of the London
Times, writing Of the great interes,
now taken in exploration in Palestine,
suggests that if the historical books
of the Bible are to be relied on, efforts
to recover valuable treasures Of the
temple might be successful. Accord
ing to these books, the prophet Jere
miah was instructed, just before the
BAbylonish captivity, TO deposit in
Mount Nebo the tabernacle, the sa
cred ark and the tables OF the Law
which it contained, and if they wer'
concealed there, there is reason to sup
pose that they are there still.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

THERE are several men in Texas who
for twelve years past have been and are
to-day inhexible Federal oficeholders.
One owns a dog named Jerry who
helped the master administer the
affairs of the Freedman's Bureau. Jer-
ry was a page in the Twelfth (RadicaD
Legislature. The members all liked
"Thomas and Jeremiah" and therefore
tolerated the dog and the master.
Since that time our good friend has
been transferred from one to another
Federal Office and waxed rich. His
dog meanwhile has grown old and 50
addicted to association with fat, sleek,
oily and well-dressed and well-fed
placeholders that he ne7er barks until
one of these appears at the masters
carpeted threshold. The descendants
of the dog have been distributed
among the kindred of the owner and
every pup, whether owned by son oil
daughter or neics or uncle or son-in-laT,
is owned BY Federal ofhceholder.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

Mr.. DODGE says he did not come to
Texas to foreclose mortgages on the
Central. He came to see the country
and for relaxation, and brought with
him friends who had invested vast
'umS In the State, who had never seen
the country or people. Coming here
he found the compsny's treasury empty
and that it was in debt to everybody
everywhere. He began proceedings in
order to anticipate the like action OF
others which would have been ruinous
to him and to those who have made
advances for the company.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

Mike Waldran, the Hayes United
States Marshal for Western Tennessee,
is Chicago Irlshman, and known in
Tennessee as an Andy Johnson or con
servative Democrat. The radical Demo.
Gratis there call him a "disinfected"
Democrat. Mike must have spent his
early years licking the blarl e. stone.
He is always grinn:ng and good ma
tured and full OF kind words and loca
politics. The whole of that district o.
West Tennessee known as pinch
expects deputies' places under Mike.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
seems. is conscious of thi. fact, but the

seems, is conscious Of this fact, but the
more timid Cabinet would await its
thorough comprehension by the people
Of the North. The President does not
propos. to destroy utterly his power in
the North and within his own party.
He moves slowly and, in this instance,
most unwisely, as it seems to as. He
cannot afford to reverse instantly in OF.
fetal action every line of policy defined
for him by Morton, Blaine, Ingersoll
and the stump speech-makers who
howled and roared through the North
and exasperated even intelligent popu-
lations against Nichols and his party of
so called "negro murderers." II the
President proposed to change finally
his purposes as asserted in his
inaugural, he would hardly place
upon this tardy commission - this
target for popular impatience -ex-
Governor John c. Brown of Tennessee.
The Ex-Governor was a Wing and ad-
herent of John Bell, an antedeluvian
when q candidate for the presidency
even before our ''deluge." The ex
Governor was a rebel and gallant and
dist nguished Confederate soldier. He
and his associates will hardly be want
ing in fidelity to truth or in prompt
ness when a moribund commonwealth
Is in eztremis. But the fact remains to
be depIored that the President illus
trates in his conduct in this behalf that
weakness of character which his enc
mics ascribed to him. Admitting his
honesty and purity of purpose they
have declared that exceeding placidity
made him the victim of stronger wills
than that which should shape his &C
ton. Many will infer from his con-
duct, in reference t6 Louisiana affairs,
that he has been victimized by John
Sherman, almost the foremost figure
in the Cabinet. Sherman's report on
Louisiana affairs. made not long ago
when he was Senator Sherman, shocked
the country by Its heated partisanship.
II the President have yielded to the
resoluteness and cunning Of this Cabinet
officer instead of listening as he may
have done to the protestations of the
people who were victimized bS Sher
man and Morton and Blaine and Inger
soil, his conduct is simply iudefensi-
BILE. He has betrayed the country,
stultified himself and eviDced degree
of personal weakness wholly unpar-
donable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

THE Roanoke North Carolins)
Ncrs says that about two miles from
Enfield, on Thomas Glasgow's farm, &
solid wall, built of brick, has been
discovered under the ground. Most
Of the brick are two and half inches
thick, eight inches long and seven and
half wide. The full length and
width of the wall has not yet been de-
termined. An sncient-looking sword
and axe have been dug ort of the
ground adjoining. Tell is when these
were dsposited theref
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

SMAILPox Is terrible destroyer
the colored people of Louisiana al
Northern "humanitarianism" would
much more generously and wisely q
ployed in staying the pro yress of fo'
physical contagious than in PROMOTE
the absoluusm of political evils sv
more terrible. The sway of ignoran
and carpet bagism IN government is
hnitely more ruinous and ghastly Al
destructive and disgusting than q
moot h'Seous infeetion shat eyer smo
Africa with its foulest leprnsn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
SENATOR MoRGAs. of Alabama. WI

SENATOR MoRGAS, of Alabama, will
be deemed, sooner or later, the most
eloquent as we'll as most courageous
member of the Federal Senate. His
justification of his conduct when he
voted for the confirmation of Fred
Douglass's nomination for the marshal
ship of the District of Columbia was
ingenious and admirable. He said that
10, 900 colored people had voted for
the Democrats who sent him to the
Senate, and if the President could af-
ford to place Democrat and rebel and
Southerner in his cabinet, a Senator
could well afford to approve the con-
cesslon of the marshalship of the Dis
trict of Columbia to ooloFed gentle
man like Fred Douglass, There was
the very essence of fairness and good
sense in the argument of the Senator /;
| and then, too, We should remember
that among the other blessings or
curses, as people choose to deem them,
which secessionism and war brought
down upon US, we find that Washing
ton City has become a Northern in
stead of Southern metropolis. North
ern social laws and prejudices and
modes of thinking are thoroughly dom
| Inant everywhere at the country's cap
stall. Southern people no longer dwell
there, and Southern tastes and customs
are no longer recognized. The inheri-
tanoe OF L.orais left there and parceled
out among the people is that be-
queathed to them by the Adamses, not
by Washington or Jefferson or Madi
ison, and Eroperly enough an educated
and affable colorcd gentleman is mar
shal of the District as it exists to-day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

A LARGE number Of the citizens OF
precinct number four Of this county
have presented petition to the county
court in order that the voters Of the
district may determine whether whisky
shall be expatriated. The farmers say
they intend TO prosecute the business
Of fighting whisky through the ballot
box till it is expelled from the county
and consolidated in the city.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

Redfeld, of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, labors under the disadvantage OF
being q truthful correspondent ane
seeing things that does not strengthen
certain claims made by his party. Thus
he says of Georgia, that she ''is gettsss-
along pretty well. She enjoys State
tax OF only Eve mills on the dollar,
she meets her obligations as promptly
as the general government and her
bonds are above par" Furthermore,
..notwithstandiDg the Democratic ma
iority of 81, 900, and the fact that the
colored people do not always have .
fair chance al the polls, yet they are IA
4 far more prosperous condition than in
south Carolina, Louisiana, or in any
southern State" Finally, 'sii 10 PLATA
that Georgia-wbites and blacks alike
-is better cn under Democratic rpla
than under the Republican rule of
Bullock and co-lab0reTs; that is, there
is less commotion, aLtagonism snd
lAwlessness.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

JUDGE HENRY G. SMITH, late of the
Supreme Court bench of Tennessee,
and brother of DIR. Ashbel Smith, oi
Texas, is properly spoken of as the
probable successor of DAVID Davis on
the Supreme Court bench of the United
States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

CARL SCnURz is the first German
who ever filled a Cabinet place, but no
less than four Secretaries of the Treas.
ury have been of foreign birth--AlberI
Gallatin, born in Switzerland; Alexan,
der ]. Dallas and Alexander ]. Hamil-
ton, natives of the West Indies, and
VIM. ]. Duane, an IrishmaR.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

IT is said that Hon. Guy NJ. BryaI
and Ex-Governor Davis are both appli
cants for the Galveston Custom House
His ex-Excellency has friend in Saer
man while Hayes is for the guilelesI
Guy. The custom house is properly a
the disposal of Sherman. Rumor il
our authority for these statements.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

THE Richmond Wing, atropa
Democratic paper, is giving President
Hayes hearty support. 1t promisei
that SO long as moderation and conser
vatism mark the policy of the new ad-
ministrahon 1t shall havo tho heart,
approval of the South.