San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-03

1857 lo"'c uh hansas
on the one hand and Texas on A.
other, not to glorify individuals, but .
eternize ideas, not to preserve mama.
but to perpetuate liberty. We eatbs,
from this comparatively retrosnso,
several profound compensations: fr.,
that human liberty can not be DESTROY
ed; second, that the American Union
should be maintained atevrry sacrifice.
third, that the American cont nent mrs,
Ultimately be preserved for Democrat
institutions. 1 am writing from tbA
city Of PHILADELPHIA, where the DECLARE.
ton of Independence was written bv.
Virginia gentleman, Thomas Jefferson
who afterwards, as President of tbs
United States, purchased from Napo.
leon Bonaparte, in 1904, the torritorv
of Louisiana, OF which the State Of
Kansas is to-day part.
There is something providentially
coincident in the relation borne to Tex.
as and Kansas by Pennsylvania, its
soldiers and statemen. Thousands Of
it's sons fought against Santa Anna, in
the battle of San Jacinto, in 1886, and
in the subsequent conflicts in Mexico
from 1915 to 1S4S. Robert j. Walker
of Pennsylvania, was one of the early
champions Of the annexation of Texas
in Congress-; the second city in the
State is called after George NJ. Dallas
Pennsylvania vice president of the
United States. The county of Kauf
man is called after David S. Kaufman,
born in Cumberland county, Pennsyl
vania. The first survey of the first
great trans continental railwaywas made
by George Britton Mcclellan, Of Pen.
nsylvania, having previously fought to
maintain the annexation in the war with
Mexico, The celebrated Sam Houston,
who defeated Santa Anna in the battle
of San Jacinte, in 1886, although born
in Virginia, was one of the original
Houstons of Pennsylvania, and within
sight of my bay window lives the de-
scendant of Stephen F. Austin, the
founder of the capital of the State Of
Texas, Samuel II. Austin.
Almost as extraordinary are the close
relations borne by lnany of the dis
tinguished men of Pennsylvania to
Kansas. Here again we find the names
of Robert j. Walker, John W. Geary,
Andrew H. Reeder, and other promi'
nent actors in the drama of that inter.
esting State.
How wonderful the irresistible phil
osophy of the democratic history; the
annexation of Texas, and the freedom
of Kansas What lessons they have
taught; what conversions they have
wrought; what seeds they have planted;
what harvests they have gathered!
AS I was reading the proof of this
"Alternate Letter." received from
my old associate who vas managing
editor of the Press while Twas centen-
NAL commissioner in Europe in 1876,
Major W. w. Nevin' his little pamphlet
Just published, entitled Railways III
Mexico, which bear emphatical]y upon
the subject in hand. 1t shows, with SIN
gular eloquenee and brev.ty, what rail-
roads have done for provinces without
population and what railroads nave
done for long settled and populous
countries, and under the first heaa
describes Texas, California, New Mex
leo aud Utah thirty years ago, when
their entire population was not 4Oo'OUV;
then he alludes to Arizona, Coloraao'
and Wyoming ss not appearing IN tne
census tables thirty years ago, hoV 0''-
having been organized as Territories;
after which he presents two taoles'
showing these Territories IN 1851 ID
possessing 1O,0S2 miles of railroad anu
3,O37, 739 population. Texas, in TINS
table, growing from sos miles OF ran
road in 1860 to 293 miles in 1901
and rising frorl a population OF zl.'
500 in 1850 TO ] $50 574 IL 1851. II"
sufficient for n purpose TO call atten'
ton to this one po;r-, rsServlng liOi'
elaborate discusHol OF the other lea
lures of Major n WIS remarkable pA'
per, to show what railroads have aOn,
for old and populous countries, Anu
what they have already accomphsAeu