The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20
THE BALTIMORE GAZE rTE AND
TEXAS M uIGRA ANTS.


sres; lis hesl -hfulnoss snd freedom
from mslarisl diseases, except along
ore single Tver on its remo,est north
eastern confoes; its aqaable tempera-
ture; its uncontamiDsted winds, bereft
Of moisture by the arid plains and
lofty mountain ranges of NJ xIco; its
softer bre' z's, blowing perenDiAlly
from the G Il; of Nex;cn; Its fruits of
every zone and tropical crops and
richer yields of cereals than
those that reward Northwestern
farmers to-; the grest success
that has rewarded the industry of 40
900 Germans and 1O,O0o Swedes and
d mes il Southern and Western T, x4s;
these are facts that excite jeslousies
among s ates and induce even Msry-
land new spspers to misrepresent Texas
and it's populations. The BIltimore
Gazette say
There has been during the past sun
X
lu from Earope TO the Western CONT
nett Many of the emigrants were
English sgrioultu.ists of some capital
ana possessed e fiji :Ient INDUSTRY and
euergy to pu their fortunes as colo
uisis IN a new settlement. Begui'ed by
the misrepresentation oil Texas agents
10 L g and, they purchased IN that
State lands for three dollars an acre,
which, after they had moved thither
aud put it in cultivation, they discov-
cred, too la:e, were totally unfit f. r
agriculture. ALI the available land
here was held at sevenfoid higher rate,
and the owners would not sell in lots
of less than hundred acres. The itch
wht at lands OF Kansas and Mlpnesota,
that could be bought almost for moth
lrg, were overlooked by the eni igrsnts
VI their haste 10 grow rich in the E de-
ra 10 of such bCuuteCus promise. But
when they ascertsined the condition of
+, Il tits, and that their Lew estates were
81 uated in land Of promise never to
| be realized, they became dIsgusted,
aud with ell possible speed vacated the
pre- mIscs and weI ded their way north
ward. The probability that such re-
yer will not arrest the emigration 10
Texas of farmers, mechanics and la
ho.ers, preparing to follow this fail in
he wake OF their predecessors, has in
duced several Englishmen, prominent
in pubic affairs and having really at
heart the interests of the working
classes, to visit this country and ascer-
tain from public data the condition OF
our resources and the CHARGES that may
await here English farmers and work.
Ingmen who may emigra,e with the in
tent of improving their circumstapces.
1t would lie Giflicultto compress more
fslsehood into less space than is here
condensed by the editor of the Gazette.
He ID either the dppe of some North
western immigration agent or wilfully
misrepresents the condition, fortunes,
resources and attrsctiveness of Texas.
There are richer aud broader acres of
greater fecuudity and CO .pable of pre-
duciug greater variety of crops inTex-
as ikan in any American Safe. Vast as
is the st ,te's area, it has fewer acres
unculnvable than any Safe Of half it's
width and breadth in the L lifted States.
The SIsked Pain, once deemed des-
ert and uuinhabisab'e, is the richest
pasture land and brosdest paradise for
herdsmen that exists. Then let Us add
that Texas is growing in population
and we'll more rapidly than any
American commonwealth and that,
havirg six Cnngressmen now,
we will have fifteen or six
teen under the census of 1850
We suppose that immigrants have bow
and then omigrated. Bat when one
million Inhabitants of eight years ago
exceed two millions today the Balt!-
more editor, if capable OF ,rutb-te ling,
will gladly retract his assertions and
'ell his readers that the tide of NOV
ing population and wealth is wholly
in one direction. Germans have made
here commonwealth of their own, q
splendid, prosperous nationality and
imperiun1 in imperi0 Instead of return
ing TO Faderisnd they are constantly
drawing to Texas fresh accretions OF
German intelligence, sobriety aud
earnest industry. VIII not the Gazette
reconsider its grossly incorrect asser-
t;oas2 It is bad enough to have Con-
gressmen excite party rage and so de.
fine issues in accomplishing purposes
of selfish ambition that the whole
Radical press and party OF the
North devotes itself to the unhal-
lowed purpose of misrepresentpg
social and political and moral facts af-
fectipg Texas and the South; but when
Democratic newspaper in Demo-
cratic S ate jIins he lying, bowling
pack and lifts its voice in horrid uni
.on tn those of the hungry blood
hounds, led by C)nkling and B aine,
and, simply for money and
pelf, lies even as ConkliDg's
crew do lie for offices and
spoils, the outrage is not to be toler-
ated. Even if it have happened, and
We do not believe that ever hap
pened, that few foreigners have left
Texas because they were swindled,
what has this isolated fact to do with
the great fact known of all men that
land in Texas, as rich as that Of the
Delta of the Nile, and richer than
that; ofahe Eastern shore or about
Cambridge, in Maryland, can be bought
everywhere for twenty-five and fifty
cents per acre. Rich cultivated allu-
vial sugar farms are sod at s., and
good grazing lands, where corn and
email grain grow luxuriantly, are worth
twenty-five cents per acre. These are
facts, and il Englishmen were swIn-
died and made to pay IS for such
property they must have been escaped
lunatics. Will not the Gdsetts irqaire
into the facts and correct its grievou:
errorsi
TYSDALL holds that there is nosatis.