The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.

Now that the South is liberated and
Busteeds and Warmoths and Kelloggs
and Packards and Chamberlains are no
more, and now that the country,
through the Intervention of a grand
commission, has escaped civil war and
utter desolation, and now that the
Constitution and laws will be fairly
and justly administered, the control Of
public affairs having passed from the
hands of sectional into those of
federal administration, the country
must lapse into condition of politi-
cal repose and business activity almost
unexampled. After ali these years of
turmoil and poverty and demonism
brought down upon us by party lead
ers, the unwise and the ambitious and
reckless and selfish and sectional, the re-
bound must he universally recognized,
and in all relations of business life.
The elasticity of American energy will
be discovered everywhere, and if the
seemingly inevitable war in Europe
supervene, while American securities
will be sent home, and there will be
great foreign demand for gold, there
must be concurrent acquisitions for
beef, bread, clothing and munitions of
war. The demand for Texas hides
will grow with the consumption of
shoes by predatory murderous armies
in the East. Despite tempests and hail
storms, which may have destroyed To-
Gusts in their path, the great mass of
the people have escaped proVidential
calamities, and the influx of riches and
steady augmentation of property values
is seemingly inevitable. But we must
remember that this advance in prices
Is measured now by a different stand
ard from that to which we resorted
not long ago. The volume of paper
money has been steadily lessened until
its value is that of silver, and until
Europe interposed to disturb the rela-
lations of paper and gold, the two de.
scriptions of currency were almost an
unit in value. If the hail storm, when
destroying crops, have destroyed the
iocusts, we discover in an evil COM
pensating good, and there are seven
months of summer still before US in
| this low latitude IN which to retrieve,
here and along the seashore, misfor-
tunes of the past thirty-six hours. II
we find that political revulsions and
war in Europe have disturbed even
here the relations of paper and gold,
it will create an unprecedented demand
for everything we produce. For each
providential evil there is somewhere
a compensating good, and vixen we re.
member that after all the cost in idle
ness, whisky and bad morals of terri.
BILE partisan conflict, and after dis
puted succession to the presidency, We
found way Of escape from civil war,
and lapsed into the hands of wise
and just and conservative chief magis
trate, there are few, whatever theil
personal griefs and misfortunes, who
will not congratulate the country thai
a splendid future awaits US, and the
people that their destiny is at last II
their own hands. The storm of to-day
is followed by the sunshine of th'
morrow. The calamity of yesterday
is obliteFated from the facts and mem
ories OF the past by an energy ths
quails not in the presence of plaques o.
hail or tempests. The crop that wa
destroyed yesterday will grow greer
beneath the strokes of energy that il
tireless, and in the presence of courag,
that defies misfortune. Heaven smile
at last on those who rise with creates
resoluteness when providential blow
are heaviest and respects those witt
respect and honor themselves.
Look where we will, whether to tn
condition of our Own country, under
patriotic instead of partisan President
or to that of Europe, which goes L
war as we devote Ourselves to arts ant
tolls of peace, there is everywher
arching the heavens on every hand tn
splendid bow of promise, telling of tn
dswning of brighter day than ha
greeted America for twenty wears,