The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-30
INDIvISIBLE TEXAS AND HER
UNIVERSITY.

The bonds of unity are every day
becoming stronger between all
portions of great and growing
Texas. Time was when there was
some talk of division among its own
people, but now dismemberment is
dreamed of alone by a few pOliti-
clans, who would have offices
multiplied, but who dare not present
the plan for such end to the voters
of the state. The public man who
would come to the front at this time
and advocate division of the Lone
Star state, would bury himself in a
political grave from which there
could be no resurrection. Lately we
heard much about division, but
it came from the enemies of Texas,
operating at Washington, who hoped
thereby to make it appear con-
spiracy was at work to multiply
Democratic states. A northern
gentleman who has lately Travelled
all over the state, and who has free
ly mingled with all classes of peo-
pie in all portions of the state, tells
that he has never heard the question
of division approved by single
man, woman or child in Texas, and
the fact that such is the case should
make every Texan, devoted to the
interests of his state, labor with
greater assiduity than ever for
that consummation awaiting in
divisible Texas. In 1890 Texas
will probably be the fourth or fifth
state in the Union in population. 1t
will be the greatest state south ofthe
Ohio river, and it will be the key to
the vast trade with Mexico, making
the rest of the Union tributary to lis
for shares in its profits. In 1890
Texas will advance fifteen points in
the direction of holding more politi-
cal power at Washington. Undi-
vided Texas may then ask for what
is needed for removing sandbanks
at Galveston, and with gra-
ciOus bow the chairman of the
committee will ask how much he
may be permitted to recommend for
keeping open the harbOrs at Sabine
and BraZos and ROckport, and every
little town in the state may have, il
it desire, pOstoffice building and
a sewer and such things at Uncle
Sans expense. An army of vain
glorious superintendent of public
works will be scattered broadcast
over the state, and their salaries and
perquisites will be onr gain. Should
the o. a. be president at that
time, and the guess is no
idle fancy, there may be even
a happier condition than is cOntem-
plated, for then one-tenth of the
men in Texas might draw salaries
all over the Union, and thus the dis
tributed wealth Ofthe country would
as it were, he concentrated in Texas
But we would dwell upon the indi
visibility of Texas, and in this inter
est, especially, would we have th'
state university located at Austin
Austin is as near the geographical
center of Texas as any city in th'
state, excepting, probably, Bolton
and it is. the center of vast
land and revenue system, which
makes it the Mecca to whicl
its best citizens go on pilgrimage
through succeeding years. Here
too, meets its legislature and it
courts, and the boards of trustees o
different state institutions, and it i
] o noted fact that all reasonabie-min
ded men who visit The capital ieav,
it, even now, with feelings of love
and with pride i'll its beauty and il
its natural and artistic attractions
With such feelings as these, growing
every day for Austin, what woult
not be the sentiment ,peryading tn,
state, if one or two Thousand
of its most intellectual youn.
men were assembled here il
attendance at a great institu
ton of learning? These young mel
would soon become the moulders o
public sentiment in Texas, and th4
associations created between then
would result in state unity that m
power or influence could disturb
In ten years from the time the uni
versity is inahgurated it may b.
presumed that from five to tel
thousand Young Texans will nav
attended it as students. These vii
then have entered the active walk
of life, and out of this mum
ber there will be rising ia ctor
in the exercise of every pro
fession and industry in Texas. Thei
attachments will be with the Aims
Mater, and with all that belongs
to it, and, if it be located at Austin
the love attaching to the Aims
Mater will be extended TO the capi
tai of the state, and the bonds tha
bind these students together viii b.
increased with every year unit
every Texan will take that pride il
I Austin, which all great people
extend to capitals. IIallowed
I associations beget patriotism
and the most patriotic senti
ment that can possibly per
yade the breast of Texan is th'
preservation of unity for his state
which, remaining undivided in 1900
will be represented in our galaxy by
the foremost star of the sixty thai
will shine'with effnlgence, as repre-
senting the American Union.
That heavenly procession, which
has been attracting so much atten-
ton in the east for the last few