The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-26
trict of this commonwealth in the Con-

trict of this commonwealth in the Con-
gress of the United States.
We do not see by what right the au-
thor Of this paper, supposed to be Col.
George Flournoy who signs it, discusses
this question. He knows nothing Of
the relations of citizen to the Union,
or of the obligations that rest upon
such citizen. OF patriotic impulses
and affections Col. Flournoy cannot
speak. He cannot even understand ones
devotion to his State. OF local patriot
ism, as Of devotion to the Union and
Constitution even as our fathers made
them, he knows absolutely nothing.
When Texas was reduced to the worst
possible straits, when all sorts Of
knaves and adventures and strangers
preyed upon the people, when military
satraps more detestable and avsricious
than Verres insulted helplessness and
plundered poverty to destitution, then,
even then, this Col. Flournoy illustrated
in words and acts his utter ignorance
of every instinct of patriotism. Even
then he issued 8 flaming pronuncia-
miento addressed to the people of
Texas, evidently deeming us Mexicans.
We are not sure that he proffered Nat
Q. $s5 to print it, but 1t is In type and
Nat doubtless received his proper fee.
We have copy before US. 1t reads as
follows:
EXILE AND LIBERTY.
All who are determined not to be
subject to our enemies, who cannot
consent to take by the hand the desola
tors of our homes, the murderers of our
brothers, our fathers, our sons and our
comrades; coming, as they do, with un-
bndled power, and the hypOcritical
pretense of brotherhood, and who feel
that desultory warfare here will but in
crease the distress of our unhappy
country, are invited to assemble at
Austin on the tenth and at San Anto-
MO on the seventeenth of June next,
for the purpose of organizing to geek
new homes on another soil.
They will come mounted and equip
ped, and when as many as twenty are |
in body, they will select a captain.
lieutenant and two sergeants.
Many Of our people, who desire to do |
so, will be unable to accompany us.
Let US go and prepare home for them.
G.. FLoURNoY.
Austin, May 80, 1865.
1t will be observed that even in Aus
tin, In the presence.of the monument on
which are inscribed the very names of |
the slaughtered of the Alamo, even |
here where every hill and valley and
public edIfice is associated with events |
that appeal to love of country, even In
Austin, Col. George Flournoy penned |
this startling appeal to the people. 1t
was addressed to those who could |
abandon and forget Texas even when
the grand commonwealth was thrust |
into depths of woe and arrayed IN sack
cloth and ashes. Moreover. Flournoy's |
partisanship and Flournoy's statecraft |
and Flournoy's passionate appeals to
the people had precipitated these ca
lamities, and yet Flournoy would have
Texas believe that John Hancock, who |
differed from Flournoy In all things,
who never loved Texas less because he |
loved the Union more than Flournoy,
n now unworthy to represent Texas
in the Congress OF the Union. OF |
these matters Col. Flournoy knows
nothing. We plead the memorable |
pronunciamiento in bar of his right to |
criticise or measure the fitness of any |
candidate for a seat in the Congress Of |
the Union.
But God doesn't make many Flour
noys, and He is good God. He
makes them, too, with flaming red |
heads, and the shadows of these are
reflected upon their bellicose procla-
nations. People know what to ex-
pect from such men, and few are as
tonished that the author of the furious
illumination of 1866 also gave pster-
nifty to the thunder which poor Nat Q.
pumped last week into the innocent
people of Georgetown at S. per
quart. When the reverberations are
heard no more. when the clouds are
dIssipated and we see the sun shine,
may not the people of this congress
sional district, who prefer solid good
sense and sound wisdom to impulses
and passions, which Flournoy con-
founds with patriotism-will not all
sane, sensible, practical people pray
that Flournoy's prayer Of 1855 may be
speedily answered2 Should we not
''pray every day with the rising sun,
even unto the going down thereof"
that such ferocious and cranky, impla-
cable leaders may 60 "over the river"
to prepare houses for Us!" Let Flour
noy 60. Meanwhile the people Of
Texas propose to send John Hancock
to Washington, that he may illustrate
in Congress that practical, good sense
and sturdy devotion to convictions of
night and to the State and people, of
which he is surely incapable who pro-
mulgated this shameless appeal to ''de-
serters" in 1865.
THE CAPITAL STATE, FAIR
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