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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
CANON FARRAR ON HILL AND
MIR CARRINGTON ON MIRA
Giles.

Canon Fsrrar's discourse on the
mode of future punishment has ex-
cited infinite discussion in this country
and in Europe. His unique sermon
pronounced in Westminster Abbey
provoked the condemnation of the
dignitaries of the English church, but
not SO much, it seems, because the
theories of the Canon were ill-founded
as that they were calculated to disturb
the fixed modes of thinking OF the
church. He does not believe that
there is literal lake of fire and brim-
stone to which the impenitent are con-
signed, and denies the assumption that
the punishment of the wicked, in
whatever it may consist, is eternal. In
this the English pulpit orator con-
ours with very many of those preach
ers whose opinions on this subject we
cited few days ago. Beecher has
been preaching a second sermon of
late on this theme and taken occasion
to modify very materially the views
he first expounded, substantially those
which Canon Farrar approves. What
ever the final conclusion of church
men on this subject, the opinion obtains
that the intense orientalism of feeling
and expression that distinguishes
the Bible is not always susceptible of
literal Interpretation, and these recent
expounders of texts that tell of the fire !
that is not quenched, now attracting |
the earnest attention of intelligent peo-
pie everywhere, are approaching the
position of Swedenborg, who recog-
nlzed the Bible, we believe, as an in
terminable figure of speech. In auy
event he deemed the book series of
symbols, each substance designated
having its corresponding idea or spirit
ual meaning. Therefore we have al
most concluded that Beecher, Farrar
and the New York Doctors of Divinity
will finally accept the doctrines of
the accomplished DR.. Giles, in
whose poetical and imag. native
discourses the beauties of Sweden
borg's VISIONS are elaborately ex-
pounded every Sunday. Thence the
distance is short to the pOu StO of the
Choctaw who believes that death is
only step from physical to cor
responding spiritual mode of existence
in fact, that there is no death aud no
hell. Each individual defines for
himself his mode of future life. The
Choctaw still pursues the wild deer,
Conkling flaunts the bloody shirt and
the party-leader Is still the demagogue
pandering to the passions of the basest
of the mob. We cannot accept all
these conclusions, and therefore must
refer our readers to the speech of
Canon Farrar to be found in all the
great newspapers that have space for
endless homIlies and jerem,ads. In
stead, we present the substance of an
admirable lecture on miracles pro-
nounced in this city by DR.. Caring
ton, once distinguished and success
full lawyer, and now leading minis
ter in the Christian Church.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESI-
DENT.

1t is stated that Ben Buffers recent
speech before his Lowell constituents
is prelude to another harangue to be
pronounced in the House, and that the
Presidents title to his Office will be
questioned, and that if enough Demo
Gratis will lend themselves to Buffers
purposes, articles of impeachment will
be presented by the House at the bar
of the Senate. 1t is then proposed to
be shown that Tilden was elected; that
Bradley was bought and that Mr.. Hayes
WAS never made chief magistrate.
What is strange in this process is the
palpable confession of perjlred knav-
cry by those who approved the action
of the electoral commission, lauded its
deeds and asserted the honesty of
Wells, Packard, Kellogg, and of his re-
turning board, and now these same
party-leaders, when they find Mr..
Hayes to be patriot rather than par
tissn, stultify and perjure themselves
by denying the fact of Hayes's election.
The scheme will surely come to grief,
and singularly enough, if Butler have
the hardlhood to pronounce. by an eff
fort to impeach the President, his own
partisan associates peIjured kGaves,
leading Democrats of both houses
would cooperate with the few conser-
vative Republicans and render success
full impeachment impossible. Nobody
entertaining proper conceptions of the
country's needs, of tie popular desire
for peace and order and for the stabil-
ity of our institutions, will approve any
such purpose as this said to be enter
tanned by Conkling and Butler. Trea-
son to party is not treason to the coun-
try's laws and Constitution, and even
il Mr.. Hayes become a Democrat, the
fact constitutes no cause for impeach-
ment. If it be attempted the sure fail
ure will be the sure overthrow s1d an
Inhalation OF party which, in order to
crafty its hatred of recalcitrsnt
leader, does not hesitate to confess Its
own knavery and foul practices and
perjury. Bradley, We are sure, will
rise up in the Supreme Court room and
enter his solemn protest if Ben Butler
and Conkliug undertake impeach-
ment, in winch they viii never succeed.
Providence may even interpose in pre-
venting the success of partisan knavery.
Patterson is dying and with his body
will be entombed the last hope enter
tanned by those selfish, ambitious men
who sacrifice every aspiration of honest
patriotism on the altar OF partisanship.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
ga. w. Gu writing from Wash.


ga. w. Co." writing from Wash
ington city, draws fearful picture of
the social condition of the great cities.
The terrors of winter are upon them,
and poverty, in most ghastly visage,
Is laying his hands upon thousands.
He writes: christmas has PASSED
and left but little jly depicted on the
faces you meet. There seems to be a
cloud hanging over this beautiful city
All work in government improvements
having been stopped for lack of ap-
preparations, the mechanic and laborer
stalk around, terror-stricken at the
approach of the terrible cold predicted
by the Kentucky weather observer and
prophet, who says that in January
people will freeze in the streets of our
large cities. God help the poor.
Congress hsvIrg taken long recess,
the hotels and boarding houses are
empty, and the poor renters shiver in
dismay when the inexorable landlord
presents his rent bill. The discharge
from the Treasury aud printing Offices
sends poor hslf-clad women forth to
beg or do wors. Private enterprise is
paralysed, and many a child looking
with fearful eyes into an empty stock
ing. One poor told me that when
his little ones brought their stockings
to him in the morning and asked why
Santa Claus had neglected them, his
heart filed TO bursting, and he left the
house. He had not cent for bread,
and work he could not get. Dear
God, when viii there come a change
to this sufIerins land "
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
TIE POLITICIANS AND THE
PEOPLE.

We are much inclined to believe,
and simply because of what we see
and hear among the people snd news
papers, that ConklIng and Butler ard
Blame and the Inter Ocecn are on q
false scent, and the attempt to destroy
the popularity of the President fails
utterly. Politicians and party-leaders
object, of course, to ciSil service re-
form, but the people, with one voice,
approve 1t, and it is on this issue that
the President is condemned. For this
Conkling and Blaine and Maxev and
the Radical leaders have chosen to dis
approve the conduct of the President.
When the Democrats, less than two
years hence, will have a fixed majority
in the Senate, there will be no objec-
ton to Mr.. Hayes's theories. The
whole Democratic force of the Senate,
except three, has spoken and voted
against Conkling and in approval of
the Presidents purposes, conduct and
policy. Though the President has no
party in Congress, he so shapes his
course that he is approved by the good
men of all parties. and infinitely more
by the masses of the people than by
party-leadets.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
GALVESTON IN A BAD WAY.

Galveston throws up the sponge.
The great meeting of property-holders
and taxpayers was sadly deficient in
spirit and more in money. Lively
little speeches were made. Col. Flour
noy, and our excellent friend Mr..
Kopperl, who devised p pretty plan for
the gathering in OF million dollars,
made pretty speeches and some of the
orators almost wept when they said
that instead of five hundred there were
less than two dozen taxpayers present.
The meeting, We are sorry to say, ad
jnurned sine de, and thus, we fear, the
end comes and Galveston is undone.
There is another story bru;ted abroad
that may have a sad influence upon
the fortunes of Galveston. Com
modore Morgan, it is rumored,
has bought the Houston and Gal
weston road. Some think that
he has made terms with CALVES
ton and will transfer his shipping
and wealth from Clinton to the wharf
company's abiding-place. But Morgan
rarely takes steps backward, and the
opinion obtains that the old Commo-
dore will remove the iron from this
railway aad use ii in eXtending his In
dIanola road from Cuero to Austin.
He does not care TO have the Iuterna-
t;onal sending people and cotton down
to Galveston, when the whole might as
well be shipped at Clinton on his
steamers. We do not state these ru.
mors as credible facts, but such are
stories published by Houston papers.
1t seems that Galveston, to say the
least, is In the midst of many misfor-
tunes, and that what we said of the
inability of the city to gather million
dellars for the Santa Fe road was lit
orally true, sne 1t may be true that Mr..
Kopperl will be forced to retire,
for want of funds, from the presi-
dency of the railway company.
But the Ne'cs does not despair Of Gal
weston. On the fourth instant it was
still hopeful, and told how Mr.. Seelig-
son and several Hebrew and other
merchants and Col. Flournoy still talk
ei almost confidently. These gentle
men propose to invest In the bonds OF
the railroad company, enabling the
corporation and Mr.. Kopperl to begin
their task at once. The Meas has faith,
it tells the country, in the intelligence
of the business men of Galveston, but
whether this faith will remove noun
tSins to build railroads remains to be
seen. Galveston is reduced to the
same desperate state of facts by the
same causes that rapidly destroy Aus
tin. Galveston, like Austin, must have
another railway or starve to DEATH In
neither city do We find those having
most involved manifesting most Inter
est in the painful facts, and IN both
placec action has been fatally post
pOned. What we woali have done
would cost such triling sums that
we have not despaired Of final tn
umph- Win not the chamber of CON-
merce make such an effort as that
which enabled 1t, year or less ago. to
repair the highways about the cityi
Pubic opinion is ripe for action, and
in small sums the amount required to
inAngurate the narrow gauge towards
81 Paso can be secured While con-
templating the follies and misfortunes
Of Galveston let US not forget our own.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
PEDERAL SET rLEMENT OF THE
MEXICAN EMBRGGLIO.

People are very ignorant, or inclined
to practice upon the prejudlces and
stupidity of ignorance, who do not
know that Juarez, Lerdo and Diaz and
the governmental forces that sustained
them were all alike friendly to the
United States. Each recent Congress
of Mexico has given generous subven-
tions to an extension of the Interna-
tioaal and to the Denver and Rio
Grande roads. Whatever difficulties
are impending, and however to be de-
plored, can constitute no pretext for
war with the people ard government
of Mexico. Instead, it is only needful
to cooperate with the friendly govern
ment of the revolutionary country and
enforce order where it cannot. The
worst elements of Mexican and
American populations have been at
tracted by the freebooter's life
of the sOna liJre, and every escaped
murderer and flying desperate of the
old and new American States finds a
city of refuge on the plains along the
sparsely populated valley of the Rio
Grande. We confess that these evils
must be remedied, that the desperadoes
must be annihilated and that wrongs
complained of by rancheros are great
and even intolerable. TIE STATESMAN
has only persisted in asserting from the
beginning that war with Mexico would
not only aggravate every existing evil
and extIrpate none. 1t would postpone
the regeneration of Mexico and its fit
ness for absorption by the United States.
Remember that the evils from which
we suffer, to the extent that they are
of Mexican origin, are attributable
wholly to the weakness of the central
authority and the strength of cattle
thieves of every race and color along
the border. To the terrors OF these we
contribute by failing to recognize and
strengthen the government of Diaz
He may not be the legitimate chief
magistrate of the country, but there is
now none other pretending to claim
his place, and we cannot understand
what purpose is contemplated by Mr..
Secretary Evarts when he postpones this
concession of power to one of the most
accomplished soldiers and scholars
who for many years has been president
of the unhappy republic. The Nation
discusses our relations with Mexico
with singular fairness and good sense,
concluding its al ticle with the assertion
that nothing can secure tranquility and
order but large force of the regular
army of the United States with officers
and men alike free from preiudices
that affect both Texans and MexIcans
of the border. Annexation will avail
nothing. Tamaulipus In Texas would
remain the Tamaulipas of to-day. A
large army of occupation would be re-
quired to maintain order if Tamaulipus
were county of Texas or territory of
the United States. The stars and stripes
preach no sermons to cattle and horse
thieves and God knows we want no
further pollution of the ballot-box.
Let US recognize DIaz and cooperate
with him in repressing kDavery and
outrages in Western Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
NO. Il

men had surrendered, and that John
Atkinson, to save his own life, had be-
trayed them. They then held a meet
ing, and all determined on the death
OF Howard, Atkinson and McBnde.
They were led out about one hundred
yards and shot. Nine men from the
other side OF the river did the shoot
ing. The mob yelle on. whether they
should kill them all, meaning the ran
gers. Most of them so agreed, ana
but for Chico Barilla would have done
SO. He told them if they killed one
man more he would turn his own COM
msnd on them.
They then told me to send some of
my men to the quarters to lock after
our property and cook for the rest. and
that if chose I could go to the quar-
tiers and sleep, but under strong
guard. Next morning there was
a review of the mob, and after
maneuyenng tie troops the lead
ers made speeches. Two Of them
from the other side of the river
msde strong appeals to the mob to
kill, not only us, but all Americans in
the country. The mob again consented,
and, but for Chico Barilla, would have
rushed IN and killed US. At the meet
ingat was arranged to give those of nay
men who were left there horses aud
Everything else was confis-
Gated, including Mortimer's and Nc
Brides property. They then told me
I was az ifSo4~y 81. SsSss.~.ss-sSSs
their arms, IN the name of the State of
Texas. They refused to glyethem up.
left for franklin, as / bad no means
of procuring arms or ammunition, and
we were out of rations.
/ forgot to mention that as / was CO.
ing to meet Howard at Ysleta l met
Chico Barilla and eighteen men, some
of them from the other side of the river.
Respectfully yours, j. B. TAYs,
Lieut.. comd'g. detachment Co. c.
Front. Bait.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10

BANKS and merchants fail every
where every day, and the number of
bankruptcies grows apace, and are
greater each day and week. They are
not confined to the great cities, but in
every village of the West and South
merchants and manufacturers fail hour
ly and farmers lose their homes under
foreclosed mortgages and deeds of
trust. And while property sells for
nothing capitalists buy it for moth
ing, and contraction is steadily
and remorselessly progressive. We
will derive a share ot relief from the
enactment of the silver bill; but this
is only half that the country requires.
The process of contraction must have
an end and Sherman's thumb-screws
be demolished. If any here doubt the
necessity for these changes let them
inquire how many mercantile lives
Sherman has destroyed even IN this
modest little capital of less than 20, 900
inhabitants, and yet the absurd peo-
pie forget to petition Congress, urging
lawmakers to give the country speedy
and perfect relief. Why does not the
Chamber of Commerce make an appeal
to the Senate and House2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
HOUSTON AND CLINTON.

The Houston Age of the first inst.
contains an excellent railway and ship
channel map Of Houston and its en-
virons. If there be truth in maps,
which are Figures" Houston must be-
come the commercial capital of Texas.
But maps are not always truthful. The
ship channel does not terminate at
Houston, and all these converging rail-
way lines described on the map must
terminate at Morgan's wharves and not
at Houston. If the venerable Commo-
dore may transmit to his heirs and leg
stees his genius for commercial
achievements, the fate of Houston, like
that of Galveston, depends upon
the conduct of steamship com
pany which suffers none to compete
with it. 1t owns the sea and will soon
be master on shore. II it leave Gal
weston a barren island it may also
make the grass grow in the streets of
Houston. Either the city must be re-
moved to Morgan's landing or Nor
gan's canal must be extended to Hous-
ton. The pleasing map and accom-
panying commentaries before US cor
tain very lndistinct references to these
facts. Would it not have been wiser
and more prophetic to have given the
country a railway map of Clinton,
Morgan's town. rather than of Hous-
ton
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10

THE President shows no disposition
to abandon his policy. When az
preached in this behalf by his Repub-
lican friends he mildly refers them to
the Cincinnati platform and to his let
ter of acceptance, and since there is no
answer TO these two papers the av-
erage politician is lmpelled to de-
part in silence, but still re
solved on mischief, and ef-
forts are making Ito induce some
leading Republican to present resc-
luton in the House condemning the
Presidents condrct. For this the Re-
publican members may vote, but the
question is still undetermined who will
present the resolution. The old mem
bers are too shrewd to incur dangers
of future condemnation, and they now
seem to think that older and wiser
heads than theirs should receive the
blow that the Presidents possible
popular triumph might inflict. Such
a resolution would be approved
by majority of the Republicans of
both houses, but no party-leader has
the hardihood just now to become re-
sponsible fof Its paternity. The Presi
dents power is dangerous. Patterson's
death and Sharon's absence would give
the President absolute supremacy in
both branches of Congress and it is
hardly probable that open hostilities
against the administration will be
prosecuted. Letter-writers say that
there will be no change in the Cabinet
and that the President mildly and
calmly declares that he will take no
step backward.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10

WENDELL PHILLIPS, after lecluring
forty nights in Western cities, and
even in Omaha, tails the reporter of
the Boston Herald that the people, as
forty to one, are in favor of the Bland
silver bill, and that if Congress do not
enact it popular exactions will be, of
course, progressive. Antipathy to
bondholders and hatred begotten by
devices to which they resorted to plum
der the people, demonetizing silver
when nobody in or out of Congress was
cognizsnt of the fact-these facts are
SO well calculated to arouse popular
antipathies and passions that the refu-
sal to do Justice will only compel the
people to hasten the overthrow of the
III, t onal banks and substitution of
greenbacks for bank notes. Revolu-
tiCns never go backwards, and this,
which Boston and New York capital
lists contemplate with such horror, can
only be restrained by acceding to its
demands. If the reconciliation of
silver fail the evaporation of impover-
ished muititudes will only drive them
to demand the taxation of bonds or
their repudiation. But the national
banks are most interested in inducing
Congressman who may be at their dis
posal 10 hasten the reconciliation OF
silver. 1t must be done, and the soon
er the better for the banks.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
II seems that all the nations of

IT seems that all the nations of Eu-
ropean Turkey are aroused by the pro-
gress of the Russians. These nations
have twofold object in view, now
that it appears safe to act. First, they
desire to rid themselves of Turkish
Iule, and to take revenge on the Turks; !;
and next, they want to put in as strong
"a claim as possible, both for indepen-
dence and well-rounded territory,
when the Turkish possessions in Eu-
rope are disposed of. The Greeks, es-
pecially, are anxious to enlarge their
limited kingdom, and to bring all or
most of their nationality under one
government. Crete and other Greek
islands, as well as Thessaly, are covet-
ed. The memory of the former great
ness and glory of Greece inspires the
modern Greeks. They arc ambitious
to become the worthy descendants of
their great ancestors. They are not
disposed, therefore, to trust to the
generosity of Russia or of the other
powers, but want to establish a claim
to territorial expansion by conquest.
The government probably sympathizes
with the people, but it has to move
cautiously. Cultivated and liberal
minded men everywhere would be de-
lighted to see heroic Greece restored to
its ancient splendor.