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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

BEN HILL, of Georgia, is not only
man of great ability, but true patriot.
He has not always concurred with
those who have commonly ruled the
South, but for all that has never been
deemed either unwise or faithless to
the land of his birth. He has recently
spoken of the course of political events
and raid, as the STATESMAN has often
declared, that Hayes's nomination was
victory over Republican ultraism and
military administration of free govern
ment, and defeat of that party's be-
ligerent element, which has no policy
but to foment sectional hates and pas
sions. Mr.. Hill believes thai if Hayes
be inaugurated he IS honest and fair
enough to discontinue unwarrantable
interferences in the affairs of the South ;
he will also naturally desire the CO.
operation of the best men in the South.
If this be true his administration will
be great gain and improvement to the
Southern people, who have no desire
to resist the Federal government, but
to be regarded as portion of this com
mon country, and entitled to the ad-
ministratiou in the South exactly as
that administration is extended to other
portions of the country; and if we can
get this plain, honest administration,
and the best people can be recognized
| by the Federal administration as the
proper representatives of Southern in
terest and sentiment, the whole coun-
try will perceive at once that the ultra
isms charged upon the South will have
ne foundation in fact. In settlement
of the presidential imbrogIic, Mr.. Hill
thinks. there can be nc possible apol.
ogy for breach of the peace. A great
difficulty seems to be that leaders of
both parties are not endeavoring to
discover the truth about the election,
but are devising plans to secure mere
party triumph, which, he fears, they
are willing to secure by foul or fair
means. He is uneasy at the evidences
that Grant seems to think he is under
obligation to use the power of his high
office to secure the success of the Re-
publican party, from which he appre-
hends most serious consequences. II
the House deem it its duty to enter pro-
test against arbitrary adjudication Of
the great question by the President
of the Senate, and shall elect
Tilden as required by the Con
stitution, Grant will use the military
for the Inauguration of Hayes.
OF course no man can foresee the re-
suits of such policy. They canpot be
otherwise than disastrous to the whole
| country
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

FROM court to court through forty
years the dauutless Mrs. Myra Clarke
Gaines has fought her way, lighting law
yers now and then, and defying assassins
as well. Through all these obstacles
she has passed unscathed, and at last
is crowned by perfect triumph. She
is a wee bit of a woman, with eyes Of
piercing brillIancy in color one mo-
ment of the blackest hue, the next a
steely gray, and the same eyes when
sof.ened by the recital of anothers dis
tless becoming of the most tender blue.
She wears her light hair in curls, and
rarely appears without her bonnet, if
the dainty bit of lace and velvet, half
concealed by few rare flowers, can
he called bonnet. She is one of the
best conversatlonalists ever listened to,
and one of the most agreeable women
it can be ones fortune to meet. Her
laughter has been celebrated, and time
has neither mnrred nor destroyed the
rippling qualities which make it so in
fectious that whoever hears it must
pause and smile in sympathy. The
Supreme Court has finally and unques-
tionably decided in her favor, and if
she can collect it she will have there
by thirty-six millions of dollars, less
the eight or ten mllliens to be deducted
for lawyers fees.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

WE have been disposed to question
the reasonableness of differences made
by DR.. Schliemann from remains of
war antiquity discovered at Mycen@; ;
but it is very certain that antiquarIans
will derive q share of responsibility
from the achievements of the German
scholar and enthusiast. 1t is only nee
essary to be rich in order to be respect
able, and antiquarlanism in taste and
habits of research will be heneeforth
ever most honored and honorable in the
eyes of vulgar ignorance. The Doctor
continues to make new discoveries.
In the tomb recently opened ut My
cene he found large golden mask and
an enormous breastplate of gold. He
also found the body of man, wonder
fully preserved, especially the face.
The head was round, the eyes large,
and the mouth contained thirty-two
fine teeth. There is, however, diff
Guilty about preserving the remains.
There were also found fifteen bronze
swords, with great golden hits; a
mass of immense golden buttons,
splendidly engraved, ornamented the
sheaths of the swords. Also, two
great golden goblets and great guam
tity of other objects in gold, articles
in carthenware, a carved wooden box,
several articles in chased crystal, ten
large cooking utensils of bronze. but
no traces of anything in iron or glass.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11
HAYES CHIEPEST OF sECES-
SIONISTS.

Mr.. Tilden received q vast majority
Of the popular vote; that cannot be
disputed. He was entitled to 203 of
the 800 votes cast by the electoral col
leges, and would have received them
but for unbiushing systematic vlllainy
prompted from Washington City. II
he be elected and Hayes substituted by
sheer force, the Federal government
has lost its divinity in the peoples
eyes. Its prestige is lost when its
purity and the embodiment of the idea
of right are lost. If Queen Victoria
were supplanted, even praceably, to-
morrow by some base-born, unknown
adventurer, unsanctifed either by
popular assent or by the "divine right
of kings" the last Englishman would
die rather than bow TO such supremacy.
The government of Great Britain
would lose It's cohesive force. It's
"cousols" would fail to consolidate it.
Even so with that Union which we
were taught in childhood to love and
veuerate. 1t can exist no longer in the
affections of the people when its very
impeIsonation is befouled with crime
and born of knavery and wrong. Hayes
may accept the presidency. If he do
the time will come when he will be ex-
ecrated as a deadier enemy of
the American Union than any New
Englander ever deemed Jefferson
Davis. What Davis sought to
accomplish, in cOntravention of the
peoples wishes, these party leaders,
Cameron and Morton and Grant, will
effect, and in conformity with the de-
sire OF those who pretend to be the de-
vOutest lovers of the country and its in
stitutions, the Union will be as effect
ually destroyed as if Davis and Lin
coin had set up two rival hostile en-
pires, uplifted by two grand armies of
black janissarics marshaled in Wash
ington and in Richmond by two grand
Turks. We would not have Hayes
made president because he has not
been chosen president, and we would
not have him inaugurated because
there can never be reproduced that
tixedness of love and veneration for
that system of laws and of government
which our fathers made, and which
the veriest incurable secessionist rever-
ences as a memory of the past. Hayes
as president, when Hayes was not
chosen president by the people or by
the States, becomes the foremost seces-
siOnist of this or any age. He cannot
give US union, and only anarchy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

TEE war in tie East, the English
and American commercial papers say,
makes the produce exchange firmer,
the expectation being that it Will neces-
state an active demand for american
beef and breadstuffS and provisions.
There are other branches of trade
which will also experience the benefit
of a declaration of war. 1t las been
no secret that, for some weeks past,
certain arms manufacturers haye been
in receipt of large orders on Turkish
and Austrian account, and that addi-
tional contracts are looked for, at an
early day. The war in Europe, we can
all readily see, will be OF infinite ser,
vice to American farmers and manu-
facturers, and if there be fghtin. 3 around
Washington, Texas is more than one
thousand miles away, and should stay
there. Sam Houston opposed aunexa.
tion because he foresaw the war about
the alleged right to take an abstract
negro to an impossible place--Kansas
and Sam Houston, in 184E5, ad.
vised Texas to keep out of the Union.
But the people rushed forward, and
then, in 1860, Houston's predictions
were verified. He then said that "God
was on the side of the heavy artillery, ,
and that we could gain nothing and
must lose everything by rushing into
the deadly breach; but in we went
But now we are out of it, and have
lessons and wisdom enough inducing
US to keep out. Texas can take ne
part in the next war, save that VIZ
propose to make whatever is lost ty
the follIes of our race, whether on th'
shores of the Bosphorus and Black Sc;
and Mediterranean or on the other sidt
of the Ohio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE Legislature of Arkansas meets
Monday, and that of Mississippi a week
later, that of Alabama is in session,
having elected the youthful and elo-
nuent Morgan United States Senator
In Tennessee Isham G. Harris, Gen.
Bate, John F. House, Judges John N.
Carmack, Archie Wright and Ton
Brown and many others are candidate:
for the United States senatorship.
Lamar has been chosen to represent
Mississippi, and if rejected by the
Senate will be reelected, or Gen. Ed.
G. Walthall may be substituted if La
mar prefer it because of his own Im
paired health. Governor Garland take,
Claytcn's place as the senatorial repre-
sentative of Arkansas, and Garland
andr Governor Coke will be seated to
getl er and sworn friends.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

We pay one per cent. per anEum to
the mayer and police upon all our
property for protection against mur.
dcrers and fisticufers and roughs and
bullies, and then We pay one and a
half per cent. upon the value of our
houses for protection against fire. 1;
the insurance company, when a loss
occurs, fail to pay, We instantly vacate
the policy and reinsure. The ques-
ton may arise whether we need new
"poilcy" to protect life and morals
and decency. The laws that are dead
upon the city's books should be en-
forced and abodes of vice and infamy
cleaDsed., Let us either stop paying
this one per cent. or have the quid pro
quo to which we are entitled, or Ieor.
ganize the city government.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

A MAJORITY of the Supreme Court
of the United States is deemed an or
ganlzed body of partisaus "a, apon
the bench to make given "erlsion in
given case. A drunken, corrupt
Fedelsl Judge named Durell overturned
the government of Louisiana aud IN
vested thieves with office, and while
WarnIcth and many like him pluu-
dered Louis:aua, Dure.l grew rich with
his receiver il bankruptcy, presiug
upon those reduced TO beggary by un-
known kuavcs fastened upon the peo-
pie by partisan knavery in Washing
ton. y supple tool of power upon the
Federal bench is one Bono, fellow
sent down by Grant to administer
Justice and law in South Carolina.
He has done the bidding of Chandler
and served his party rather than his
country with rare fidelity, and now the
virtues of Judge Wood, OF the Florida
Circuit, are to be tested. We stated
some days ago that Judge Wood had
declined 10 interpose III these local
questions. wholly within the jugisdic
uon Of local courts, but the New York
Herald says that Wood will obey
Chandler and make Judge Bond his
model and grant the writ of hd1eas
corpus to the canvassing board of Flor
ida If it disobey the decrscs of the
Florida court and refuse Jo make an
other count of the vote of the State.
But the Herald of the twenty-eighth
must be mistaken. Our dispatches of
the thirtieth stated that Judge Wood
had refused to cooperate with Chand
ler's agents at Tallahassee and had
gone to Montgomery. If this be true
we may have fair count IN florida
even yet, and thus a final settl sment Of
the presidential embroglio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

TILDEN doesn'C propose, the New
York World says, to remove Federal
placeholders who have been capable,
efficient, honest and approved by the
communists in which they serve. The
STATESMAN has often said that the
crime of the age and country, next af'
ter the EQUALIZATION Of the ballot-boX,
is the bribery OF men with the hope OF
office. A thousand Andrew Jacksons
could never counteract the infinite evil
done by him who made the maxim ste
the victors belong the spoiis,' the
touchstonc of parusanship.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

IT is justly said that because South
ern representatives in Congress have
been moderate in council and have set
themselves like a stone wall against ex-
treme or revolutionary action by their
party, they are none the less Demo
Gratis, and none the less desire the sue
cess OF Governor Tilden. They will
insist most strenuously that the result
of the election shall be ascertained by
legal and constitutional means, and
that the result, whatever it is, shall be
peaceably acquIesced in; but they will
not, in advance of the decision, even
by indirec:ion, do anything to weaken
their party. How they would receive
an invitation from Governor Hayes.
should he be the next President, TO as
sist him in raising the South from the
political degradation into which it has
fallen, we do not know, but believe a
liberal and statesmanlike policy would
meet with an immediate and hearty re-
sponse; but this is matter which it is
now too early to discuss. Hayes may
be President. and the South is in and
of the Union and would have local as
well as Federal reform, and especially
would We have the restoration of local
self-government. Ii Hayes make these
concessions very certainly we have ac-
comp!isheG enough to reinvigoiate in
dustry and restore prosperity. This is
the aspiration of the honest people.
Party leaders, in addition to all this,
want the spoils, and therefore the diff
ference between the many and the few
the people and the placemen. 49,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

CA.LYLE's letter on the Eastern
question had great deal of influence
in England. Both he and what he
says are everywhere talked about and
greatly respected. Mr. Smalley adds:
"Most of the Turkish organs in Eng
land found it convenient, however, to
suppress this letter; a kind of journal
ism which seems as foolish as the par
tY organ kind of journalism which
once flourished in America, and which
suryiyes even in England"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE Fort Worth Democrat seems to
think that in commercial relations
Northern Texas should prefer St. Louis
to Galveston. Tom Allen thinks that
Congress should compel US to trade
with st. Louis, rather thsla with
Southern cities. He now controls the
only route across Arkansas from the
East, and St. Louis, cooperating with
him, and having seized the public do
main of Texas, would not suffer Con-
gress to provide for the construction
of the Southern (0 Pacific road from
Shreveport or Texsrkana and Mem
phis. Against this outrage the Fort
Worth Democrat enters no protest, and
it seems, of truth, that the Democrat
is an organ of st. Louis rather than of
Texas interests. We are curious to see
what Hancock, Throckmorton and
those other servitors of Tom Scott,
who represent Texas in Congress, pro-
pose to do in this matter. If the
Texas aRd Pacific road be wholly di-
verted, as proposed, from Texas, and its
builders and owners and future mana
gers refuse the concession required by
every necessity of Texas and OF South
ern States and cities, aud Tom Aliens
domination be perpeIu=ted, there may
be some remedy in the courts for the
fraud practiced upon this common
wealth. Scott would plead the inno-
cence of Rutabagaism, ana we might
weep over it but the wrong done
and fraud practiced are so palpable
that there must be & remedy. The
terms "Texss and Pacific" constitute,
as now confessed by St. Louis and
Philadelphia, misnomer. The words
were used to make dupes of innocent
Texas lawgIvers, and surely the chan
cery court, whose special province 1t il
to guard the helpless ana minors and
insane persons, will interve2e and undo
the outrage prscticed by korlless cor
porstions and plunderers oi States whC
came down upon that helpless bodI
endesvoring to frame q government fol
Texss. They were psraiyzed at ont
fell swoop" by Tom Scott
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

SOME of the papers say that Grant
and Chandler, at any cost of right OF
money or blood, will inaugurate Hayes
or protract the reign of Grant. There
is nothing to indicate such action in
Grants message, and only in the on
recognition of the DEGREES of the Su
preme Court of Florida, which is justi
fed, they tell us, by incidents in Texas
when our so-ealled Supreme Court wal
dcfied
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11
NO. %

If the newspapers don't quit apply
ing the term Professor to qUacks,
mountebanks and arrant hunbugS, the
faculties of all institutions of learning
will resign their professorshiP, and
have trustees Of colleges and universe
ties devise different term descriptive
OF the honorab!S positions they hold.
Il is a foul shame and deep wrong to
men of learning who have toiled through
lifetime to win TIL, and then have
it befouled by Ignorance and misap-
piled by stupidity and degraded by
quackery and Impotence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE facts in the Florida case become
most important, and we recount them
briefly. 1t seems that the Supreme
Court of that State ordered the board
of canvassers to count, second time,
the returns from the several counties.
Two of the board, as happened in
South Carolina, refused to obey the
Supreme Court, and instantly ex-Attor-
ney General Laudaulet Williams hur-
ried down from Washington to Talla-
hassee. But while Federal Judge Bond
rushed to the rescue of the recalcitrant
board in South Carolina, Judge Wood
stands aloof in the Florida district.
He seems unwilling TO do the dirty
work of the party leaders. One of the
members of the board of canvassers,
Mr.. Cooke, in obedience to the decree
of the Florida court, proceeded to
execute its mandate. He made up
statement which gave Tilden major
ity of ninety-four, and Drew, Demo-
cratic candidate for the governors
Office, 497. When this was done, the
two recusant Radical rascais of the
board changed their policy, and full
board met. Williams. Grants late
flunkey and Attorney G neral oflaHdau-
let fame, was there. The canvassers
had before them the decree Of the
court declaring what votes should
be counted; but the board deemed
it eminently proper, because partisan
necessity lmpelled, to disobey the court,
and the returns from Clay county were
not counted. BY this process Demo-
cratic State officers have a majority of
1875, while the Hayes electors have 206
majority. This halfway compliance
with the order of the court z, IN a
legal sense, worse than no cOmIe eiance.
The Supreme Court will not fin h, and
the Federal Judge Wood has rjaid he
had no intention of going to florida.
If he refuse to protect the recaicisrant
Radicals who resist the DEGREES of the
State Supreme Court, proper returns
may get be made, and at least show
that if Florida be stolen by the Repub-
hcans the appropriation of Oregon by
the Democracy is wholly deiensible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

ing grows stronger in Washington
that, in some way, the joint committee
will arrange plan which will allow
the House to elect Tilden and the SEN
ate, Wheeler. At all events, prominent
Democrats here are more hopeful than
they were q week ago, and the number
of doubtful and desPondiug Republi-
cans is increasing; but the principal
senatorial leaders will no; admit tuat
there is doubt OF the result. They
feel sure that Hayes is TO be inaugu-
rated IN some way. Senator Morton is
at the head of tie class which has no
doubts or fears He devo.es AL his
time to the electoral question, hardly
giving himself time for sleep and
meals
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

If the result in Florida had been
fairly and honestly determined by the
first count of the returning board of
that State there would have been no
objection to compliance with the order
of the court and to a thorough rc-inves-
tigation of the facts. But Chandler and
Grant and Morton will have no inves-
tigatipn and the people are to be
cheated and the presidency stolen.
Whenever this is done the government
of the United States is finally undone
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

PEOPLE have widely divergent tastes
and ideas about matters in reference to
which one would think differences Of
opinion impossible. We have abso-
lutely encountered correspondent
who would have US put up in tabular
shape the facts and figures affecting
the population and resources of Austin
and Travis county. If tables and num-
bers were before US we would write
out the facts and transform them into
editorial shape and matter that the
multitude might be induced to read.
Few people can be induced to read
tabular statements. Nobody ever read
the census tables. People turn away
from them in horror as from the multi
plication table in childhood, and when
one prepares a book or circular fer
the masses of reaCerS the labor spent
III tables aud long lows of figures is
wholly wasted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

GRANTS present coaiees"r Frson
Newman, travelled around the world at
the cost of the Federal treasury. His
nominal business was to inspect consul
a.es; but this was very thin and put
up job. But Newman is 4 sly old fox.
He had the right to squclch the custom
house officers and import Scotch
whisky free. He brought on a reEu
lar doctors prescription, "quGHt'm
svr'icit." and traded it to Wizards
hotel bar for sherry. The sherry does
service on sacramento occasions, it is
said, and Parson Newman is Il good
man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

IT has been held by the highest
court of New York that a passenger
having paid his fare, and having been
elected from the train because he re-
fused to pay the extra charge of sew
enty-five cents for self, wife and
daughter, demanded by the palace car
conductor, was entitled to $4,000 dam
ages, and the Central road had it TO
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11
The Memphis ana Little Rock Ra

TIE Memphis ana Little Rock Rail-
road will be sold under the hammer
to the highest bidder at Little Rock
in February next. This sale, we pre-
sune, perfects the title of the first
mortgage bondholders, who have al
ready expended vast sums in filling
long trestles with gravel. 1t will be
made the safest, as it is the strsightest,
load in the South. The bridges and
trestle work will soon be no more, and
the time from Little Rock TO Memphis
Zone hundred snd thirty-five miles
will be three hours. This road, so far
as Texas is concerned, is throttled BY
Tom Aliens ST. Louis and TexarkAns
road.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE result of the local option elec-
tion in Colorado county, that occurred
On the tweuty-eighth ultimo, is not
known. The Citizen says it would
have been carried, ten days later, by
an overwhelming majority.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE St. Louis Times says that il
Congress adhere to the purpose of
building a Southern Pacific road aud
"a Texas" instead of "a st. Louis
road" the future capital' of the
Union will at once build railway to
Austin to connect here with the Inter
national and with Morgan's Ind4anola
Road and with the Texas Central. BY
this route, as the International pro
crosses, St. Louis will have a shorter
route than Tom Scott to the Pacific and
to the City of Mexico.