The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-12


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morning sief," IN realizing The recent nh'
present qlOfioue doe0lpmchfs which hnvl
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brothcfi0od ne q great commonwealth "
The American Union Of States. A few
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had Deiter dlyldo our great stn'e mo sew
eral States, because II took OK and mule
toa,ns an loos 4, transnort commodities
49, ~ 49,. 49, !,
rom one sgctlon 70 hnother; but ulis IL
nli PaM. halIrohuS ni'u lelegr4phs nave
reVOllslon'.ou tne oil luehs' ~ FORMER
Times Snn Ahtonlo had monopoly OF the
~ ihso Taue' because III
iaso was only reached py stage
IRON gun hhtoilo through SIX hunureu
miles OF a line everywhere llaDic 10 attacks
by hostile indians. Ihat was the condition
o. affairs vi recently But how is u now
who In Dallas. or anywhere between Dallas,
New Orleans, New YORK, Boston. or Phila-
deiphia., mas the slightest hesitation III
taking the cars from here, or anywhere east
O, mere, Tor Los Angeles, can Diego, san
francisco or anywhere elsewhere IN Cali
iornia! what husband n California is
AFRAID 10 trust ms young wiie ana iirst-6 born
child on this heaven blessed route from
Philadelphia, New YORK, Boston, or even
Salem (the land OF witches, TO go to him IN
CaliforniaO
In short, !, being citizen OF Texas, with
my mother in Nahant, Massachusetts,, my
elder brother in Oregon and my only sister
in the City of Mexico, with her husband,
who is building q railroad straight into
Texas wherein or how can be sectional
man?
Reducing these thoughts into home af-
fairs, remembering that railroads and tele-
graphs, not to say telephones, are bringing
the extremes of Texas into close neighbor-
hood, does it not follow that this glorious
State OF ours-this State OF immense terri
tory-is thus doubly united Us ono and iii.
divisible! Is it not wonderful? To-day,
n man in Dallas can talk, inside of ten min
utes, with his brother in Brownsville, FL
Pasp, TeXarkana, Sabine Pass or Austin.
To-day Il man can jump on the cars,
and, in few hours, go from Dallas
TO III Paso, San Antonio, Brownsville, La
redo, Eagle lass, Corpus Christi, Tcxar-
kama, Shreveport, New Orleans, or any
where IN the great Southwest. The whole
OF Texas is now, to-day, bound together by
bands OF iron and telegraph wires. El Paso
the extreme northwestern point OF this
State of immense territory is to-day, closer
to Sabine Pass, the extreme southeastern
corner, than Austin was TO Dallas five years
ago. In the first case the distance is nine
hundred miles, in the latter two hundred.
Hence, when man in Dallas. inside of
ten minutes, can talk to n man in Browns
vile, say 500 miles south; to another in FL
Paso, 645 miles west; to another in Sabine
Pass, nearly 800 southeast, and
to another in Texarkana, 22l miles
northeast, is there, can there be, any
reason for discovering this people into
little municipalities like Rhode Island, Del
aware and Vermont? Why, daily we get
letters BY, mail, not As hours old, from all
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-