The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-10
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The Saity ofTexas in all Its Length and
Breadth,
To the NSitnr Of the Herald

To the nSitor Of the Herald.
As an old 1'exian, II feel, feel, likes
morning star" in realizing the recent and
present glorious developments which have
brought gil Texas into one commingled
brotherhood as great commonwealth in
the American Union of States, A few
years ago some good men thought that We
had better divide orr gr cat State into sew
erai States, because ii took OK and mule
teams so long to transport commodities
from one section to another. But this is
all past. Railroads aad telegraphs have
revolutiouized the old ideas. In former
vi faso trade, because Ell
Paso was only reached by stage
from SIN Antonio, through six hundred
miles ola line everywhere liable to attacks
by hostile Indians. That was the condition
of affairs till recently. But how is it now
Who in Dallas, or anywhere between Dallas,
New Orleans, New York, Boston or Phila
delphia, has the slightest hesitation in
taking the cars from here, or anywhere east
of here, for Los Angeles, San Diego, San
Francisco or anywhere elsewhere in Cali
forniaf What husband in California is
afraid to trust his young wife and first born
child on this heaven-blessed route from
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, OF even
Salem (the land of witches, to go to him in
California?l
In short, /, being citizen of Texas, with
my nother in Nahant Massachusetts, my
elder brother in Oregon and my only sister
in the City Of Mexico, with her husband.
who is building railroad straight into
Texas, wherein or how can be a sectional
MANI
Reducing these thoughts into home az
fairs, remembering that railroads and tee-
graphs, not to say telephones, are bringing
the extremes of Texas into close neghbor-
hood, does it not follow that this glorious
State OF Ours-this State Of immense terri
tory-is thus doubly united as one and in
divisibe! Is it not wonderful? To-day,
man in Dallas can talk, inside of ten min
utes, with his brother in Brownsville, FL
Pasu, TeXarkana, Sabine Pass or hustin.
To-day man can jump on the cars,
and in few hours 70 from Dallas
TO Ell paso, San Antonio, Brownsville La
redo, Eagle Pass, Corpus Christi, reyar~
kama, Shreveport, New Orleans. or any
where in the great Southwest. The whole
Of Texas is now, to-day, bound together By
bands ofirOn and telegraph wires. I'll paso,
the extreme northwestern point OF this
state OF immense territory is, to-day, closer
to Sabine Pass, the extreme southeastern
ago In the first case the distance is nine
hundred miles, in the latter two hundred
Hence, when a man in Dallas, inside of
ten minutes, can talk to u man in Browns
vile, say 500 miles south; 10 another in I'll
I'asO, 6io miles west; to another in Sabine
Pass, nearly 800 southeast, and
to another in TeSarkana, 2(l miles
northeast, is there, can there be, any
reason T! Tor discovering this people irto
little municipalities like Rhode Island, Del
aware and Vermont Why, daily we get
letters by mail, not IS hours old, from ali
parts of Texas, yet can remember that in
former days we often got letters from the
states that were often forty DAYS from
New Orleans and then cost fifty cents post
age. once got such a letter and rode fltv
miles to the post-otlce to get it, and it was
no exceptional case This was no case of
old togyisnl, but an illustration of the will
and progressive spirit OF the Texans of that
day. Through clouds and storm and polit
ical turnoils they bore the cross and en-
dured tie shame to bring about the present
state OF affairs, and hence they feel more
than now men can feel the blessings now
upon us.
Hence, and to conclude, we feel and re
ioico in the fact that the union OF Texas.
one and indivisiblc, in all its length and
breadth, ia secured by the railroads and
telegraphs for which we have hoped and
iabnred ever since the last Texian Congress
at Houston in 1889
We then made the telegraph welcome
visitor to Texas, chartered railroads, dedi-
Gated lands to ccanty schools and a State
University, prohibited dueling, and invited
immigration from Europe and all the States
otthe Union. War interviewed and garnet
baggers came to blight and TO curse, but
the old IDEAS OF the people remained the
same. FOR ten Years ostraciscd The mo
ment the cloud disappeared they renewed
the old struggles for development. and here
we are to-day, bound together by ties that
VIII forever make Texas one and indiyisi.
bic. The more railroads the more unity
The more unity the more happiness.