The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-19
THE TEXAS FRONTIER.

Now since Mexican domestic affairs
hayequietly settled down on the normal
line Of thieving aud petty throat cut
ting, the usual irritations along our
Texan borders have commenced. We
tie told by the press reporter at Wash
ington, that General Ord has orders to
pursue the banditti on Mexican ground
il that IS necessary to effect capture, or
to break up the eternal stealing Since
the Mexicans have been enjoying COM
parative peace At home. it ia remarked
also. that the Indians on the stakel
plains frontier have again been fancying
the scaip-loeks aud ponies of the bgrd-
erers. These things can easily be put
together, and a result arrived at which
ought to arouse our war department to
something like activity, or at least ins
duee 1t 10 look after the marauaers
when they pay us these unweleome
visits and before they return home.
Now that our brave soldiers are
relieved from the disgusting lduty of
white repression in the south, cannot
they be used in the more congenial and
necessary work of red repression on our
frontierY II strikes MS very forcibiy
tina, while our delegation in congress did
labor faithfully during the last session
to secure protection from the national
power, yet much more might have been
done. Instead OF Louisiana commissions
a few Mexican and Rio Grande
commissions might have performed
work OF infinite service to the country.
Texas has expended immense sums.
both before and since the war, in per
forming work which is peculiarly that
of the federal government, aud she
ought to be reimbursed. Ii is only a
matter of common honesty and fairness
that this should be done but Texas
would gladly remit this Just claim were
future efficient protection guaranteed.
We have wealth of productive coun-
try still laying idle and useless, stretch
ing from the gulf on the south to the
Canadian on the north, which would
support and profitably employ popu.
lstion equal to that of the entire state
of Pennsylvania, which is now, in con-
sequence OF the lack OF adequate pro
lection, practically worthless and Of nc
avail. The employment of six regi>
ments of cavalry, three of infantry, and
one of artillery, on this line, would rem
der our settlements and all this vast
expanse of fabulously rich country as
! safe as the state named 1t does moi
require statesman 10 determine that
the plain result in view wouid iustif,
the emploS ment of this force, and more
especially as we have men in service ano
must pay them anyhow for servie.
which has as yet yielded no one, excep
republican !partisans, the least advan
tage.
When the extra session does conyen.
we trust to hear that our representa-
! tiyes are instant, in season and out O
it, in urging this great measure upol
the government There is millions il
il" both for Texas and the genera
government, and the measure is on
which supplements and adds to tn
other great necessity of our Texan boz
der the early completion of the grea
national route, the Texas and Paciii
railroad, which would be in and @
itself an immense hulwark of defens
for our weak and struggling border set
Elements. The future question anon
our Texan congressman will not be
who did or did not support the com
mission bill, or fillibuster TO prevent it
passage. but who did or did not do al
iii his power TO secure the protection $,
sadly needed. and the completion o
the Texas and Pacific railroad