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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

MOST OF the newspapers of Texas
object to the details rather than to the
fact OF the Sunday law. The press is
not irTeligious, but would not have
moral rather than religious legislation.
Ii would provide for the protection Of
the perfect freedom Of the church and
also OF the Individual, and imposes re-
straints for this simple purpose. The
Legislature has no right to legislate re-
ligious faiths OF any sort into people,
and can only protect men In the prAc-
tice OF their creeds- Then the Legis-
lature can designate 9 non-secnlar DAY
or day Of rest, such as the Savior in
stituted- This would protect the poor,
as far As the law can intervene effect
lively, against the reh. When the
Sunday Law has undergone proper
modincations there win Be few 70 OBJ
iect 70 its operstion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

HONEST men, it may be hoped, will
now get their dues. Messrs. Tilden
and Field are a. it Justify, and the lat
ter talks about him through the COL
ums of the New York World, reitera-
ting all his former statements of Mr..
Tilden's business transactions with the
elevated road stock; that Mr.. Pelton
was made vice president at Mr.. Til
den's request, made more than once of
Mr.. Field himself. Mr.. Field says:
l charge Mr. Tilden with deception
and falsehood; falsehood both acted
and spoken; that when he sought my
aid in large business Transaction,
which could only be done on one con-
dition, he thereby accepted the under
standing, which had all the face OF
positive agreement-that he should
not, In my absence, do ANYTHING
against our common interest. This un-
derstanding he violated as soon as ]
was out Of the way, and therein prac-
ticed gross deception.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

THE statement is credited every
where that great river of coal oil un-
delflows Texas. II comes down from
the mountainous districts and coal
fields of the Northwest and discharges
itself into "Oil Bay" In the Gulf.
There the water is covered with oil,
and it is called Governor Hubbard
bath tub-another Aphrodits in an
other Egean. There are oil covered
lakes in Texas, and he who first dis
covers a river of oil will soon be first
among the worlds capitalists. Not only
do wet and dry seasons superlnduce
the necessity for artesian wells, but
greed for gold and the possibility of
striking q river of oil will induce many
persons to perforate the exuberant bo-
som OF Mother Earth. The discovery
of the course pursued towards the
Gulf by underground branches of the
great rivers of the Stat e may prove oi
infinite value to people and manuIac-
turere.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

GEN. GRANT, in his last message
to Congress, declared its prepar-
tion to be his "last official act. p"
"With the present Congress" he
said, "my official life terminates. "
Therefore we have spoken of Gen.
Grant as an honored citizen of the
Republic and not of Grant as parti-
san. Therefore all classes of people,
Federal and Confederate soldiers, Re-
publicans and Democrats, have chosen
to do him honor. But it is now pro-
posed in New York City to tender
Grant the hospitalities of the Republi-
can party. He is to be used by
Conkling in promotion of Corneil's
chances. If Grant lend himself to such
purposes, he is unworthy of himself,
his fame and confessed practical good
sense. New York should receive him
as he deserves, with all possible asser-
tions of respect for his splendid schiey-
ments and honorable fame but nei-
ther New York nor Gen. Grant can
afford to deal with the return of the
long absent citizen as that of a par
tisan to the bosom of Conkling
and his plotters. General Grant
cannot descend from the lofty place he
occupies to enter the arena in which
Offices and spoils are fought for. He
might as well become the bottle holder
at prize fight or champion of that leg
weary idiot Weston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

The name OF John Bell has almost
faded from the memories Of men. he
WAS great in his day. Ot splendid IA
tive genius he was eminently conserya-
tive and thus the representative of the
Old Whig ''broadcloth party" of the
South when he, Lincoln, D,uglas aud
Breckeoridge were presidential candi-
dates in 1860. u hern C 'nse vatism
that could not accept Mr.. Bells Wing
opinions, rallied about the banner of
ID juglas snd Herschel V Johnson and
thus it happened that while Greeley in
his book and everywhere denominated
the late war, the 'slavehold-
ers' rebellion the great mass
Of these Shareholders supported
either Douglass or John Bell, while
the non-slaveholding counties and dis
tricts of each Southern State, except
where East Tennessee and West Vir-
glnia were grasped by Andy Johnson
and VIM. G.. Brownlow, the one
Democrat and the other Whig, were
solidly Democratic. These, and not
slaveholding communities were willing
to incur the hazards of war, and thus
It is fact that Greely and his follow
ers, who were ascu20med to denounce
shareholders as disuAionist sts in q meas
ure, grossly misconceived and
misrepresented the facts. But
we only proposed to advert to the fact
that two daughters of John Rell are
teaching school in Philadeldhia. Both
are brilliant and admirable women,
while his son, who pursues the avoca-
ten of modest lawyer at Union City,
Tennessee, has devoted the best years
of his life to the alleviatiOn of the
sorrows of a wife who is a hope
less invalid. He is paragon
among humorists, and his speeches
are distinguished by much of the
logical acumen that made his father
famous. The old Senator and csndi-
date for the presidency was more than
seventy at the time Of his death. HIS
health was bad for some years, and
tue war aud its terrors and griefs came
upon him like great sorrow. After
the bloody work was begun it was
said he never smiled.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
By the people Of Northern Texas a

By the people of Northern Texas an
active, busy, progressive year is an
ticipated. Especially are they conf
dent that large sums Of money will be
expended by Tom Scott in extending
his road towards FL Paso. In q few
years g wild waste has been converted
into a paradise for enterprising far
mers, aud within fiYe years industrial
habits have been revolutionize and
population has been made SO dense,
and cultivated fields and pretty farm
houses so numerous, that neither the
country nor the people seem the same.
Northern barns adorn gram fields cul-
tivated by northwestern skill and in
dustry. RAzor-baek hogs and broad
horn cattle are M more, and travellers
pronounce the country thus metamor-
phosed the most attractive district Of
this broad commonwealth. A railroad
works miracles, and the Texas Pa
cifc, crossing Northern Texas, has ac-
eomplished the grAndest results. Peo-
pie living there seem unconscious Of
the wonderful change but nve years
have been a. . century without rail-
Ways in efiscting the rapid advance
ment in wealth, power sndinfsIIigsncs
Of Northsrn Tsxsl.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
SENATOR M.xEY,s SPEECH.

Senator Maxey was listened to Friday
evening at the Opera House by large,
attentive and most intelligent audi
ence. The effect of the speech will be
lasting. 1t was a plain, matter
of-fsct discussion of public pO-
litical events and especially Of
the conduct of men and parties In
Federal politics. The Senator's recen
speeches have been widely published
and read and discussed, and since they
are very like one another, differing
rather in method than in opinions and
reasoning adopted, it is hardly neces-
sary to reproduce the arguments and
conclusions presented last evening.
His discussion Cf the fat money doc
trine was based upon the most con-
vlncing argument. He declared and
proved not only that the Federal Con-
stitution does not permit the issuance
of lrredeemable paper money, but he
read from the journals of the Congress
that adopted this very Constitution,
that this same question was discussed
and that 1t was rejected by all but two
OF the original States. He also showed
from the record that Mr.. Calhoun,
whom the fats have claimed as endors-
ing their theory, declared himself
against it, aud that he only admitted
the propriety of issuing during the
great scarcity of money in 1881, enough
paper to he used alone for the neces-
sary payment of custom dues, as the
great s yuth Carolina statesman said, to
bridge over the absence of money un-
til the "mines" could again be opened
and ''coin" be once more restored.
The Speaker declared that not one man
W it'll national reputation as a states
man had ever endorsed the fiat money
theory.
Hereafter special notice may be
taken of salient points presented by the
distinguished gentleman, who certainly
deserves and has won large share of
the respect and confidence of the peo-
pie of Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
a PROPOSITION To SETTLE.

Northern papers continue to vilify
the south for the reputation of pub
lie debts. II the reconstruction COM
mittee, of which Ben Butler was a
shining hight, paid its dcb;s, it would
pay half that creditors of Southern
States have lost. II place sent
out to gather riches from Southern
property disgorged all they have
stolen In these States the cum would
extinguish the repudisted debt of Ten
nessee. II property lost, as basis OF
taxation by Southern States when ne
gro slavery was abolished, were paid
for, the South's riches would be
doubled with its capacity to pay. But
since the extinction OF slavery was
godly robbery the robbers should pay
for the qualification they experienced
and pay the debts of the slave States,
aud again we will "call it even."
And if this be not enough to adjust
the account, let the unconstitutional
and lawless cotton tax amounting TO
many, many millions be turned over to
the creditors of Virginia, which was
not ouly bereft of half its popular
wealth by Northern philanthropy, but
was abs olutely robbed of great share
of its territory in order that a pair of
Radical gentlemen might sit in the
Federal Senate. We would not have
the Tribune and other dec'amatory or
gans of the pure and honest credit
mobilier, high-tariff Republican party
mIsconceiVe us. We are well pleased
as they that the peculiar institution"
no longer exists, but we cannot see
why, if these impoverished States
can not pay, Dereft as they were of the
means of payment by their creditors
we cap not see why these creditors
should not give us credit at least to the
extent of half the value of this slave
property. Tilden inveigbs against it,
as selfish bOndhOlder naturally would !;
but we can not see the injustice in
volved In dividing the loss evenly be-
tween the good people of the North
and of the South. We bought the
darkies from the North and paid for
them, and when the title becomes de-
fective by the act of the North, an
equalization of the loss would be emf
nent'y just. Will not the Tribune con
over these propositions and let US have
an honest settlement. Perhaps when
balance sheet is made up, the South,
especially if we sum up Northern
profits on tariffs and navigation acts,
does not owe the Moth penny. On
the contrary, vast sums are our dues.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
BLOODY NOSES AND NOTHING
MORE.

Mr.. Hamman reems to think, if the
quarrel between himself and Mr.. Well
born be properly represented, that men
of the South who would have public
Federal faith observed are towards
and traitors" Wellborn struck HIM for
making the assertion. Bat there must
be some mistake. Hamman is not an
idiot or knave. He is everywhere es-
teemed flIghty, frothy dreamer and
enthusiast. He would not do mean
act or have his country guilty of one
involving even a suspicion of dishon-
or, and Wellborn must have miscon-
ceived the assertion of the great fiatist.
II Federal debt were made payable
in paper, to make it payable in gold,
when gold was worth more than paper,
was wrong done the people, who
must pay; if the debt be payable in
gold the people cannot honestly make
1t payable in paper. But how absurd
the quarrel as represented when it
is fact that paper and gold are
now Of equal value, and no great
er curse could befall the people
than the restoration of that con-
dition of affairs, from which we
have escaped through so much poverty
and suffering, when gold was worth
one-half or one-third more than paper.
Peter Cooper may insist, now that
mortgages and trusts have been en-
forced and money lenders have bought
up land and town lots worth five hun
dred millions, that this vast property
shall be.quadrupled in salable value by
doubling the volume of currency, but
the people will never assent. They
have had enough of violent fiuctua-
tions always enuring to the advantage
of the rich and ruinous to the poor,
and MIR. Hamman breaches financial
fatulency and bad faith in vain. But
is there not some mistake about the
quarrel between Hamman and Well
born9 Men often say extravsgsnt and
absurd things in heated controversy
which they gladly modify when their
attention is called to the facts and Mr..
Hamman could hardly declare deliber-
ately thSt they are towards and
traitors" who would have the letter
of the law executed and contracts spe-
officially and literally enforced. Well
born, as an honest gentleman and
American citizen, devoted to the honor
of his country, could have said no less
and Hamman surely exacted no more
and the fight must have resulted from
other incidents of the rollicking dis
cusslon.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

TIE mean depraved jealousy that
Distinguishes the relations of cities is
illustrated in the conduct of Chicago
and Cincinnati towards st. Louis.
Chicago and Cincinnati papers do not
hesitate to assert that the great st.
Louis fair, visited daily by countless
multitudes. and illustrative of every
art and evidence of progress which
twenty States can present, is an unmix-
ed failure. Nothing can be further
from the truth. Private letters and
newspapers tell us that the exhibition
Is one Of unexampled, magnifcence.
The facts are indicative Of the existence
in the Northwest Of much the same
jealousies as those that obtain in GAL
weston and Houston. The Santa Fe
road on the one hand and Telegram on
the other are products Of feelings which
beget good as well as evil We have
sought to excite the ire Of Dallas and
other towns that our people might be
moved, liks those of Galveston, to
strike for themselves and conquer des-
tiny, but . mossback representative
OF pap-suckers is as helpless as 3
spanked baby, and can only whine
when trade is dull, when houses are
tenantless and streets deserted. No
city or town would, therefore, confess
Jealousy Of Austin. Dallas stretched
out an iron arm towards Denton. and
prosecuted the task of constructing a
narrow gauge to Cleburne while Tyler
Texarkana and Waco move heaven and
earth to finish 4 great trunk line with
IN = twelvemonth. But no jealousy is
excited. The indescribAble placidity
Of the capital IL Also. o.imperturbable. and
Chicago and Cincinnati in Vilifying
st. Louis, destined to be the American
capital and metropolis have no eoun-
tsspsrt in Texas. None are jealous Of
scunclspt Aussin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

The good managers of the Peabody
fund are disgusted with the educa-
tioDAl systems, not only of Texas. but
Of the whole South. Our dispatches
state that they beg for the intervention
OF Federal power and wealth to redeem
the ignorance OF the South as injected
into ballot boxes. Nothing can
be accomplished even by Federal
wealth, until the system and mode of
organization and expenditures, Incl
deut to the schools of TEXAS and other
States have been uproOted and thor
oughly reformed. Constitutional ''efti-
cheney" Il impossible, and the courts,
Il appealed 10. would abste the system
- lsulsss and - great public nuis-
sncc md calamity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

THE contractor who delivers con-
vlcts at Huntsville, as furnished by the
several courts of the State, has them
chained together IN pairs and drives
them as oxen. Shameful exhibitions
of this character occupy the highways
and streets and move across the coun.
try in converglng lines to Huntsville.
The effect upon the people and coun-
try is brutalizing as the system of leas-
ing penitentlaries common everywhere.
The truth is, the evil becomes, in
many of its aspects, insufferable, and,
as in Georgia, vigorous efforts
ia behalf of thorough reform
are made in many States. The first
remedy for the constantly growing evil
consists in substituting the lash, ad-
ministered within prison walls, for this
costly and disgusting scheme of trans
portation to Huntsville. When con-
finement and EQUALIZATION have done
their perfect work upon the prisoners
themselves, and the whole people be-
come accustomed to the contemplation
of vice arrayed in disgusting vestments,
its head shorn and body in shackles,
then the prisoner, having served %
the State and paid the penalty of his
vices and crimes, is turned loose an
incompatible flend to prey upon SC
ciety which he detests. The whip
ping postis bsrbarous; but the peniten-
tiary infsmous and brutalizing and hor-
rible. The whipping post and branding
iron are frightful, but their victims are
seen no more, and never suffer twice in
the same country, and then the COM
monwealth is spared the necessity Of
messureless degradation of our race in
cldent..to the penitentiary system. The
cost Of transferring conYicts from coun-
try towns to Huntsville by rail, each
sheriff removing the prisoners of his
county, had become great public bur-
den. Now, it is great public wee.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

The four-yeAr.old son AID only chi
OF Lew Wallace OF Corsicsns, play
with hIs fathers pistol, accidenl 4
shot himself through the breasi -
died instantly.
George p. Finlay was appFoaeht
by liquor men in Galveston and 81 4
70 take case against the bell pan1
He was indignant, aud wanted
know II thew would have him efT4n1
his own baby. and then be MI
saked what Zee they could sfIord e ~
They have pigeon shooting msis
a. the Marshall fair, and Nisn l4
birds are killed the laHdIorf fe1
boarding honse keepers 0l tho -
town enter the ring and fight fof
dead birds- A red-headed Eeu 81.
weighing 2e0. gets sHsy with molt 1|
the dslnnct pigeons,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

Nor long since ex-senator Fenton
was telling the President that he in
tended spending the winter in CAlifor-
nia, when Mr.. Hayes remarked that he
had better not 60 West as he would be
wanted in Washington this winter.
When Senator Fenton wss questioned
- to whether the Presidsnt's object IN
- saying was TO put him in the Cabinet
he declined to make any response. At
al events be has given up his CalIfor-
MIA trip. The story goes that Mr..
Eyarts Is to Be Minister TO R1rl.nd
and Fsaton takes EvArss port folio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

PARENTS should watch the books
and flash literature devoured by boys.
We see them making selections for
Sunday use at the book stalls and
news-stands with rare discrimination
10 favor of Wild Bill, Ned BuntlIne,
and "yaller kivered" literature. Ser
mons and prayers avail nothing when
the soul is poisoned by foul recitals of
crime or of passion and lust half
veiled beneath the suggestive plati-
tudes of most significant phraseol-
ogy. The market for this detesta-
BILE literature is supplied by
that gross parental indifference born
of the fact that the state is supposed
to nurture and guard the intelligence
and morals of the young. Parents arc
absolYed from responsibility by the
blessed free school system which makes
the vices of the most deprsved the
common property of all, giving at the
same time the least possible modicum
of intelligence. Bat the parent, &C.
customed to deliver up his children's
intelligence to the State, forgets as we'll
to guard the child's morals, and the
fault is that of parents and not of
The Brennan Banner
says that no parent who takes care of
his child as he should, and who does
his duty by bis child as he should,
need fear all the flash publishers liv-
ing. And we may add that if the
parents who have ample meaLs to edu-
cate their children, were to lift them
above the reach of this depravity the
neglected children would not be nu-
merous enough to make paying mar
ket and the trade would die.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
usrzE.Fs a

These spectacles are manufactured from
MINUTE CRYSTAL PEBBLES melted to-
gether, and are called DIAMOND on account OF
their hardness and brilliancy.
Having been tested with the polariscOpe, the
diamond lenses have been found tC admit fifteen
per cent lees heated rays than any other pebble.
They are ground with great scientific accu-
rAey, are free from chromatic alterations, and
prodnce a brightness and distinciness of vision
not before attained In spectacles.
MANUFACTURED By THE SPENCER OP-
TICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, NEW
YORK. For sale by responsible agents in every
city IN the Union. a. Balm, Jeweler and optf-
clan. sole agent for Austin, Texas, from whom
they can only be obtained. No peddlers en-
plOyed.
Do not buy pair unless you see the trade
mark . de18eodAWlY
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
MtStEHH III " ="
zEzzaz zz
La 81 ! 8

Do you want a pure, bloom
ing Complexion If so, a
few applications Of Hagan's
MAGNOLIA BALM will graf
ify you 10 yOar hearts con-
teEt. 1t does away with Sal
lOwness, Redness. PiRpies,
BiOtches, ard al diseases and
imperieeti0ns OF the skin. II
eVercomes the flushed appear
aEce OF heat, fatigue and ex-
eitemeat. Ii makes . lady OF
THIRTY appear but EW En-
TY; and so natural, gradual,
and perfect are It's effects,
that il is impossible to detect
its application.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
MAKE HENS LAY.

An En.li1,lE A-e-inary Surroon and Chemist now
travori ~ f,L.siis coantry, saxs that most OF the
trash lle says that Shertdanss Conttfan Powders
aro nhs0lutey pure and iuiuiensaly valuable. Moth
ine aA earth will make hers lay like Sheridan's
ttsdd.tioa Pouderz- Doso one teaSpoonfnl 10 oas
s,in, toost
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
MY
BACK!"

pared EXPRESSLY for diseases OF the Kid
ieys Bladder, Liver and Urinary Organs, Drop
sy, Gravel, DIABETES, Brights Disease OF the
Kidneys. Incontinenee or Retention OF Urine,
and Female Weakness. HUNTS REMEDY
has never been known 10 fail.
NooREsTowN, Burlington Co., N. j. Sept. Is, '7S
WM. r. CLARK,-Dedr Sir: Eighteen months
ago had dropsy around the heart. my physi-
we'll The d rst bottle of HUNTS REMEDY
gave me great relief. / feel owe.my very eX
istence 10 HUNTS REMEDY and am deeply
thankful ABIGAIL s. COLES.
SPRINGFIELD, RGingham Co., Ga, May 49, 1879
WIN E. CLARKE, Dear Sir:-l prescribed
HUNTS REMEDY In complicated case of
Drspsy which had been treating for eight years
and find HUNTS REMEDY is the best medi-
cine for DTopsey and the Kidneya / have ever
used w. ii. WILSON, NJ. ID.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

do you have a pain
in your Back, Loins
or slider Ifso your
Kidneys are dis
eased. Do not de-
lay but try at once
HUNTS REM
EDY,the Grest
Kidney N n Il
LiV er medi-
cine, 1t is pre-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09
RICE blood!

Parsons purgative Pills make New Rich
Hood and will tnliiletey change tho blood in the
entire ssEiels in tirea months Any person who viii
taxa pill each night frorn to Il weeks may be re-
stored to sound health, ifsnch thing b. possible.
Sent hy mail for 5 letterstzInps. 4. -. JOHNSON