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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
"For theirs are immortal names
That ypra nCr horn IN die -
Chrisrs Second Coming.

A congress of Christians to discuss
the second advent is to be held in the
Church of the Holy Trinity in New
York city on the thirtieth and thirty
first of October and first OF November.
The call to this congress is signed by
bishops, priests and deacons of several
Christian denominations and is ad-
dressed as follows:
Dear Brethren an Christ-When from
any cause some vital doctrine of Gods
Word has fallen into neglect or suf-
feied contradiction and reproach, 1t
becomes the serious duty OF those who
hold it, not only strongly aud con-
stantly TO resffirm it, but to seek by all
means In their power to bring back
the Lords people to its apprehension
and acceptance. The precious doctrine
Of Christ's second personal appearing
has, we are constrained to believe, long
lain under such neglect and misappre-
hension.
In the Word of God we fud it hold
ing q most conspicuous place. II is
there strongly and constantly empha-
sized as personal and imminent event,
the great object OF the Church's hope !;
the powerful motive to holy living ana
watchful service; the inspiring ground
OF confidence smid the sorrows and
sins OF the present evil world; and the
event that is to end the reign of death,
cast down Satan from his throne and
establish the kingdom Of God on earth.
so vital, indeed, is this truth represen
ted to be, that the denial of IL is point
ed out as one Of the conspicuous signs
Of the apostscy of the last days.
Now, while casting no word Of re-
proach upon those who may differ from
us, we cannot be insensibIe 20 the fac.
that there has been q sad decline 10
our times from the clear, vivid, ardent
faith Of the early church in regard 70
this doctrine. Very many Christians
have been taught 20 regard the coming
OF Christ IS equivalent 70 their death /;
Others regard It as anonymous with
the gradual diffnuon- OF Christianity.
Many, satisfied with this present world,
have little desire for the return Of the
absent Lord; while here and there are
those who boldly speak Of such an
event as only ''fhscinating dream,
destined never 70 be realized. Bas
whlla We lament all thIs, and can bar
regard Il - Al alarming synPtoa Of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
NO. 3

the present state of religion, il an occa-
sion for the profoundest gratitude that
there has within the last few years
been such powerful and widespread
revival of this ancient faith. Looking
over the Church of God in all its
branches. and listening to the clear
and decisive testimony to this truth
that is coming up in such volume from
teachers and pastors, exposisors and
lay workers, evangelists and missiona-
ries, IL can but appear to Us that, after
the long sleep Of the Church, the wise
are at last rising up and trimming
their lamps in preparation for the COM
ing of the Bridegroom.
In view of these facts, il has seemed
desirable that those who hold co the
personal pre-millennial advent of Jesus
Christ, and who are ''looking for that
blessed hope" should meet together
IN conference, as our honored brethren
in England have recently done, TO set
forth in clear terms the grounds of
their hope; to give mutual encourage
ment in the maintenance Of what they
believe to be q most vital truth for the
present times, and in response to our
Lords "Behold, I come quickly" to
voice the answer by their prayers and
hymns and testimony, Even so, come,
Lord Jesus"
We therefore cordially invite you to
meet with rs at the Church of Holy
Trinity, Madison avenue and Forty
second street (the Rev. 8. II. Tying,
Jr., rector), in the city of New York,
on the thiItieth, and thirty-first of Oc-
tober and first of November, 1873, to
listen to a series of carefully prepared
papers on the pre- -millennial advent of
the Lord Jesus Christ and connected
truths, and to participate in such dis
cussions as the topics may suggest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
JONES, DAVIS AND HANCOCK.

Ben Buffers assumption of the su
preme leadership of the Greenback
party has seriously disturbed the equa-
nimity of Brick Pomeroy and Britton
A. Hill. They had no rivals until But
Ter seized the reins in New En- gland.
Ex-Governor Days, too, is in like
manner annoyed. He has been the un-
rivalled master of Radicalism in Texas.
But this sudden boiling of Col. Rus
sell and rejection of the DAVIS yoke by
the ancient philosopher of the Dallas
Hltelligencer have almost maddened Da-
Wis. He goes forth now to slaughter.
He is not only enraged, but alarmed.
He had intended to defeat Jones
and Hancock, or, finding this, with
Russell in revolt, impossible, he is re-
solved to defeat Hancock and substitute
man he can defeat hereafter. There
fore the speeches and activity and ter
rible earnestness of Governor Davis in
this contest. What most amazes US Is
the fact that any sane white man
should lend himself to the purposes of
Davis by aiding in Davls's triumph,
which is the triumph of Wash Jones.
He who now votes for Jones votes for
Davis. He votes to perpetuate Davis's
power In this district, and at least
votes for Jones that Davis may succeed
Jones. Davis knows well enough that
man of Hsncoek's ability and worth,
when once seated in the House, wins
strength by usefulness and dis
tinguished capacity to serve Texas.
DaYis would not have such a man
enter the House. He is conscious that
the probabilities are against Jones's
permanent occupancy of the Office. He
has not Hancock's ability or force
or personal habits. He cannot exert
Hancock's influence in the Cabinet, in
the departments or on the floor of the
House. Therefore Jones is preferred
by Davis to Hancock, and therefore
the sublime stupidity and treason to
Texas perpetrated by white men who
propose to support Jones. Surely
there are no guod citizens who would
give DAVIS in Texas the place which
Butler holds in Massachusetts,. None
would consolidate Davis's power even
as Butler, by Greenbackism, is given
the mastery of the mob in New Eng
land. And yet they who support
Jones and would defeat Hancock are
neither better nor worse Nor wiser than
the crazed enthusiasts of Pomeroy's
training or of Bntton A. Hills raptur-
ous sentimentalism or than New Eug-
land devotees at the shrine Of Buffers
genius for demagogism.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
PREs1pENr HIVES speech made last

PRESIDENT HAYEs's speech made last
month IN st. Paul has been widely dis
cussed in England. Il is we'll enough
to see ourselves as others see us, and
to know how an intelligent. disinteI-
ested European writer OF great ability
talks about US. The London Spectator
says this speech OF the President con-
tains good news both for America and
England:
The President declares that in Au-
gust, 1865, the debt of the Union, IN
Guiding large amount of unadjusted
claims, amounted TO 5000, 600, 600. The
government has adhered, however, for
thirteen years to its policy of reduction,
aud the total debt therefore is now
e407, 900, 900, 3 decrease Of nearly oae-
third, and the largest ever made in any
country. This policy, moreover, has
so increased the credit of the Union
that the Treasury has been able 10
convert" much Of the debt, and the
total payment for interest, which on
August 81, 1865, was e3O. 20s, 600 a
year, is now only G19, ,O30 600, a de-
crease of nearly Gil, 600, 600 s year.
Had the income tax been retained and
the mem bers of the whisky rings hang
ed the reduction would have been still
more rapid. Conteuporaneously with
the reduction there has been an i'm
mense increase in the number of ma
tive holders of the bends. In 1871 at
least e1Ge, o9G, tot'- g ,he deb. was
held abroad, whereas at present all but
ESQ, 900, 600 is held at home. That Is
most satisfactory, as the Greenback
and liquidation parties have therefore
to reckon with native holders of prop
erty worth $500. 900 900.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24

The Democracy of Travis county,
with Q view to harmony and unfit
cation of interest and consolidation of
power, which they undoubtedly pos
sess, are disposed to recognize the ac-
ton of any authoritative movement of
Democrats. These Democrats are dis
posed to recognize even informal con-
ventions, il their action has been in
accord with the wishes of the party,
and their nominee has been q man
recognized for his Identification with
the party. A character of imposition
has at times crept in, which the party
cannot tolerate, and which it has in
more than one instance defeated even
in Travis county. The causes are
these: It is without authority in rep
resentation, it is not IN accord with
the wishes of the Democracy, and
that it is the work of cliques and
cabals. For such causes the Democ-
racy Of Travis county, loyal TO all regu-
lar nominees, do not recognize the &C
tioa of the Dripping Springs cabal.
The twenty three delegates from Ira
Wis did not sanction Il; those of BlAncc
were unknown to it, and Eve informal
delegates from Austin did the work,
which has been called nomination.
No wonder its action l. wholly repudi-
ated by Blaneo county and BY the mas.
Of Dsm0oFass Of Travis county.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24

Why may not an army of Mexicans
and Americans cooperate in extermin-
atiEg the Lipsns, Kiowss and Co
manchesl II Mexico cannot destroy
them we must. II Mexico cannot c.
operate with Gen. Ord, Gen. Ord must
effect the purpose without cc-opers-
ton. If this means war with Mexico
then war is inevitable. Such are ques-
tions discussed Dy Gen. Ord and Tre-
VINO, the representative of Disz. The
result hoped for is the assent of Mexi-
CO to the pursuit of the murderers and
robbers by conjoined forces of the two
countries. No insult to Mexican soy
ereiguty is involved in such an incur
sion into Mexican territory by Ameri-
can soldiers. We want nothing that
Mexico has, but the murdered children
of this Texan citizen must be avenged.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
FATE OF THE DESOLATED
CIsIES.

Il has made mankind shudder when
a bloody warrior has rcsorted to fam
inc, involving helpless women and
children, in order to win victory. But
barbarous and brutal SIS this may be,
and however much innocence and hu-
manity have been shocked, The feeling
of adherence and disgust now and
then excited by political and partisan
events is hardly less strong. lille ne
eroes, while the plague has ravaged
New Orleans, Vicksburg and Mem
phis, have swarmed in those
cities. It cost no toll TO live.
Rations were given alike to the
helpless and undeserving But the poll
ticians discover just here an opportunity
to employ the blacks as political
agents. They are rapidly organized
and sll possible appeals to supersti-
tion and prejudices of race are en-
ployed. The very pestilence that has
dug more than ten thousand graves
within three months will give Offices,
through the intervention of these ne
groes, TO knaves and adventures who
ride African prejudices into office.
The facts constitute ghastly picture
of the morals of the age in which
we live and of the foul impuri-
ties OF the ballot box that shape
governments for more than forty mil
lions of freemen. There is a remedy
for the evil, at least in municipal elec-
tions; but cowardly demagogues sent
to Legislatures have not the courage to
apply it. 1t consists simply in restrict
ing the exercise of the privilege" of
suffrage in corporations to taxpayers.
In State elections the evil is not so in
tolerable because its forces are so
widely diffused. This same brutal
mob that has wrought this Wholesale
destruction OF life and property by in,
stituting ignorant and corrupt city and
village governments everywhere In ne
grodom, now that the whites have fed,
would rule congressional districts
and counties as we'll as miserable
towns, villages and cities. The filthy,
undrained and bankrupted condition
of each town desolated by the plague
% d,,a - kIa of ;ko
affairs by ignorant, incapable and
vicious representatives of the ignorant
and depraved, and the remedy is more
remote to-day than before the evil day
came. Thel potency for evil of those
that have wrought the evil is only
augmented by the death and dispersion
of those that should be, at leastin cor
porations, the governing class.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24

ONE John Fulton, a Greenbacker of
Boston, and nice follower of that Pat
lander, Kearney, condemns the fash
ion of employing women which pre-
walls everywhere among dry goods
dealers of the East. Mr. Fulton fur
ther says "that multitudes of men
are thrown out of employment by VIC
men. Men out of work cannot afford
to marry aud therefore women are
Obliged to work for the lack of hus-
bands to support them" II we 60 a
step further and say that cowardly
men would not take wives and, there
fore, those who should be wives must
support themselves, we would have a
just solution Of the facts. But women
are honester than men, and be-
come as skillful clerks and
deserve to be preferred and
have the same God-given right to inde-
pendence and self-support as these
self-styled, horny handed sons of toll,
who prefer idleness or robbery or va
grancy to "honest toll" Therefore
they go spouting about ''fiat" money
around the bar-rooms. No man should
discharge tasks of which q woman is
capable, and tradespeople will surely
find such labor more honestly per-
formed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24

SOME one has told the story of an
acute old sea captain who went trading
on the extreme Northwestern American
coast. There and then the Indians
meney consisted of martens skins.
The animals are small, pretty, hard to
catch and few in number. Tho cap
tain wanted beaver skins. lie found
martens abounded in Lapland and
Norway. Thither he went and freight
ed his ship with marten skins that cost
almost nothing. He returned to the
North American coast aud went from
point to point, buying beaver skins
till he had loaded his ship. On his re-
turn he stopped at the place where he
first supplied the demand for marten
skins, and found that the ratio of val
ues had been subverted and one bea-
yer skin would now buy twenty or
thirty marten skins. Hamman, Davis
and Ben Batter propose to give us
enough marten skin (daD money to
supply the wants of trade, and even
reverse the ratio of values and make
one beaver skin that cost 81 cost $50.
What did the Indians gain by the aug
mentation OF the volume of marten
skins What would Texas gain If we
continued to skin Martin every dayl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
Mexican News,

Col. Munos Compuzana has been ap-
pointed prosecuting attorney in the case
Of Gen. Escobedo.
A superior class of paper is being
made IN Yucatan from the outside iiber
of the henequin plant.
1t appears that the $50, 600 prize OF
the Ferrocarril lottery was actually
drawn by an outsider on the sixteenth.
Since the sixteenth of September OF
last year thirteen veteran officers OF
1891 have died, I've of whom were
generals.
The merchants of Chicsyo are hc.
coming enthusiastically in favor of en-
tering into close commercial relations
with Mexico.
A letter dated September IL says
that the late continued "northerse at
Vera Cruz haye entirely arrested the
yellow fever.
President Diaz was represented at
the ball given 10y the "Circle of Work
ingmen" on the night Of the fifteenth
by Governor Cartel.
The bank of London and South
America ia the City of Mexico has
just issued new $40 notes, which were
engraved in London.
Gen. Escobedo has appointed Messrs.
Vidal Custaneca y Najara, Francisco
Hernandez y Hernandez and Joaquin
Alcalde as his counsel.
The level of Lake Texacco Is ona
metre 067 below the Level or the city
aad Lake Zsmpsngo is FIVE metres eco
higher than the same level.
The neighborhood of San Cosme ap-
pears to be at the mercy of an organ
lied band of house robbers headed by
an outlaw called MaclovIo Escalante.
Gen. Luis Carballeda has been ap-
pointed chief of police OF the City Of
Mexico, In the place of Mr.. Manuel
Bandera, who has taken his seat in
Congress.
Mr.. Ignacio Mariscal, so well aud
favorably known as former Minister at
Washington, has been appointed mag
istrate of the Supreme Court OF the
Federal District.
Both houses OF the national legisia-
ture opened sessions on the sixteenth
uitimo. They were addressed by the
President of the Republic, and, through
their presiding officer, responded to
the executive.
Sensational gossips have whispered
it about that Minister Foster had de-
manded his passports and would iwa.
mediately proceed out of the coup
And we are sorry to say that VIII
very intelligent or respectable : ,o<
are busy in circulating this idle o. %
some worthy and credulous
have believed 1t. notwithstanding %
claims to intelligence. It Is a.
needless to pronounce the report IA
and preposterous.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
GEMS. ORD AND TREVINO--
THEIR CONFERENCES.

The fewer the Indians the more cost
ly their maintenance. Our current In
dian wars cost the people annually as
much as the greatest conflicts with the
potent red men of the past century.
The Indian expense account of the
past fiscal year absolutely exceeds
$40, 900, 900. Taxpaying populations
cannot tolerate these vast burdens, and
there must be a remedy. There are
even two; the one consisting OF
the construction of the North
ern and the Southern Pacific
Railways; the other, in the extermina-
ton of the red race. II we destroy
the buffaloes it is said the Indians can
not survive. This humiliation of red
mems cattle progresses rapidly but too
slowly. While we kill buffaloes the
Indians slaughter women and children.
No government can tolerate the butch
cry of its citizens. II the three chill
dren of Mr.. Bowling, butchered by
Indians, while watching his flocks
ten days ago, within ten miles of Kerr
vile, had been subjects of the
British Queen, 10000 men, or
enough to avenge the outrage,
would now be in Mexico. Only
few days ago the red devils were kill
ing people everywhere in Northwestern
Colorado. From the Dominion to the
Rio Grande the ssvages are on the war
path, aud everywhere North the from
tiersmen demand the transfer OF troops
from Texas. Northern life and prop
ertY are more valuable than this of the
Southwest, and Ord will be left impo-
tentl What recourse have wet Must
We pay our share of this ten millions
expended annually by Federal power
in suppressng Indian outrages and
besides pay for the maintenance of q
Texan force OF our ownl Are we to
be thus doubly taxed and citizens of
frontier counties murdered each week
and month by red savsges making con
slant incursions from Mexicol Two
hundred horses were stolen aud dozen
people killed by these Mexican rcd
men. Indian arrows pinioned the
bodies Of the children OF Mr. DOwl-
ing TO the ground, his cattle
werc driven away, and yet his
wrongs are unavenged. For what
does government existi Il compels
the citizen, when war is impf nding, to
shisld the government with his life.
and yet this government thar VIC have
this boasted government Of the pee
ple-aveDges no wrong done the peo.
pie. It Is no government that apeople
win love or respect. Wherever an
Eoglishman wanders on Gods foot
lStool be never fosgesa his allegiance to
the government that never fOrgets, At
any cost Of blood or treasure. TO guard
| his property and his life. But this
boosted republic, demanding love and
life and unheArd-of taxation, recks
nothing Of the lives Of its children,
and the children OF Dowhng, put to
death when watching his docks viii
Be unsvsnksd.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
Total. ..............


DR.. George NJ. Beard provides con-
solstion for overwoTked men by pub
fishing in the Christian Union an argu-
ment that II is perilous TO retire too
soon from business. ''It Is a phyno-
logical law" he says, ''that the system
can only adapt itself 70 new environ
ments gradually. Sudden and violent
changes In external conditions react az
frst unfavorably, and the subseenent
adaptation is the result OF struggle and
pain and sometimes OF permanent and
serious injury. The. brain that has
been active several hours daily
through Q long life amid the pfessures
and rivalries Of great city, il de-
prived Of the customary Conditions
for its activity, or Of some satisfactory
substitute, turns In upJn itself; benee
those who have retired from active em-
ployments are often fussy and unhap-
py; their lives are spent ia trIhes which
20 them seem enormous, and troubles,
which in the days Of their toll they
would have brushed away without :
thought, become serious and sometimes
fatal afiiictions.S DR.. Beard has saen
many cases Of serious ments. depTes-
sion caused by sudden retirement from
active pursuits, and his advice IL that
business be given mp gradually, lie
place In the mind being taken by rea-
sCnable diversions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
FIGHTING PLAYED OUT.

Men and bull terriers alike have
| inb7rn courage, and any well-born
youth will fight when honor or wrong
demand 1t; but in a state of society in
which cowsrdly bullies go armed,
and the honest and upright obey the
country's laws and are unsrmed, there
can be no honorable and only disgrace
fal lighting. Therefore men, when out
ragged, have often submitted. They
would nOt be assassinated. AS men
get druuk to bolster up courage and
nerve the arm for murder, so do the
decent, sober and law-abidiDg keep
sober that such conduct may be evaded.
To converse with a half-drunken fell
low Is as dangerous in Texas town as
to tamper with an uneAploded shell.
The fuse of whisky is lighted by the
slightest conclusion of differences
of opinion, and the explosion that fol-
lows leaves the pavement stained with
the lifc-blood of man and grief over
shadows once happy household.
Whisky and the pocket pistol and as
sassn's knife constitute the basis of
that lofty courage which first is mad
deued with alcohol, and then strength
ened with the battery on the hip, and
then is IN a happy condition to "get the
drop" on the helpless victim of an i'm
pulse. The other pocket on the hip
contains an empty pistol freshly fired,
to be dropped" by the bloody villain
that "gets the DROP" beside the reek-
ing, gasping victim of society's de-
mand for the exhibition of courage"
When lighting was even decent, among
civilized creatures, it was mere illus
tration of strength and physical endur-
ance. 1t was not punishment for
wrong since he who inflicted pain was
an equal sufferer and fairly took what
ne gave. To dream of murder and of
ath-desling was then impossible; but
now this boasted civilization of this
progressive nineteenth century forces
honest decency and self-respect to re-
spond by a blow to the insults of any
vulgar, brutal fellow whoi stiffens his
spine With pistols and whisky and de-
votes his life to the study of the art Of
''getting the drop" on his victim,
and then has learned how, very deftly,
to have a bloody knife or empty pistol
beside the body of the slain.
Il must come to this ct last in Texas
as in England, Old and New, that de-
cent people cannot fight. No good
and worthy citizen will bear arms, not
only because it is violative of law, but
because it is o constant confession
either of cowardice or of the purpose
to kill, and yet each citizen is cogni-
zant of the fact that the bull terriers
and assassins of the community con-
stantly and secretly bear arms. These
must be met on their own terms or to
fight would be to commit suicide. We
must ever 60 armed to kill or, fighting
to avenge insults, submit to open as
sassination. The result is that fight
ing is worse than senseless, and Is only
confession on the part of sober, in
dnstrious citizen that he deems his life
valueless to his family and to society.
1t tells of no courage and only of the
wild despair of that insanity that bends
in cowardice before public opinion.