The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-21
THE wRErcHED OLD BEING

THE WRErCHED OLD BEING.
Judge A. b. Norton denied, when
back in Texas the other day, that
he had made bloody shirt speeches
at the North. We believed then
that he uttered what was false. and
70 prove it so we reprint n notice OF
a speech made by him in Indiana.
He and other mer wrr,. taken ont
of the South and ~ the North to
circulate falschood-. as Southern
men upon Southern people, that the
sectional issue might be kept alive.
The people of The South haYc been
anxious TO renew fratcrn3l bonds
between the sections. and have done
all else but deny themselves the
exercise of political convictions. by
and through -which-ihcy think, i'll
hsrmory with half the voters Of the
North. that the country should be
governed. But we live in an age
when men like Judgc Norton may
b. hired for dollars to defame and
decry the whole people Of the South
in falschoods blackcr than the vaults
of perdition. This man, who has
lived life of peace in the South,
except probably during the war.
degrades humanity in his utterauccs.
and makes Southern men, with
out exception. the most dcpraved
and treacherous beings on earth.
There are to-day in Texas 10000
voters, men who have moved into
the South from tho North since the
war. who will deny the assertions of
this wretched old recluse as the
basest attacks upon Southern peo-
pie, and especially npou the
people of Texas, whom all honest
Northern men, who come among
us. regard with favor, In Dallas
aud in Austin there are thousands
of Northern people loved and be-
loved by the native Southrons, and
so it is in all parts of the state, aud
yet this miserable old unshaven and
unShorn piece ofhuman idiosyncrasy
announces woe to the Northern
man who settles in the South. Three
hundred thousand Northern people
have settled in Texas in the last ten
years, and people will brand the
the assertion of this man as basely
untrue. They know the motive that
induces the poor old creature to viii
ify the South. and they Will resent
the insult as readily as the native
man of the South. One who de-
scends to such depravity forfeits all
clam to the recognition Of decent
men, North and South. That few
hirelings can be found in the South
who will sell themselves to the
vile purpose of keeping alive sec
tional hatred is afaet, bat it isshard
IL probable that another through
out this broad Union would descend
TO the same depths of faisehood
with this. weak old monomaniac
Yet people have believed the Stories
told by him, and with other things
they have had their effect in defeat
ing Democracy in Indiana. Il the
Union to be held together by such
utternnccs? Il sectional hate 10 make
this government great and good and
free, and are We to have the Federal
government administered upon the
plan Of eternal persecution of
Southern people? We're all the men
Of the North like this wretehed one,
whose home Ia even in Texas, it
were better, forsthe future, that the
waves of the Mexican gulf and of
the two oceans sweep over this con-
tinent and annihilatc a people. Such
men are not fit for existence. This
A. b. Norton has no hopes. no aspi-
rations, no loves. He has been a blot
in existence and a tax upon society.
tolerated though extending charity
in nothing, and at variance in.
manners and opinions to all men.
And yet he had enough of shame in
him to deny, only two weeks ago, at
Dallas, that he had beenmaking sec
tional speeches in the interest of
his employers.