The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-09-19

Tyler and poor Pierce. SaIVatlOn rom
such would be concession to treason,
surrender and swift destruction.
You southern union men have
yourselves so long tolerated traitors,
and treated them tenderly assuring
them of kindness and hospitality
that you are now bound
by the laws OF hospitality so stand by
and protect and defend them, taking
the front of the battle, like poor old
Uriah. Should there not be an end
to this, even at the ropes end, rather
than end our glorious Union?
have seriously thought that you
should arise and gather together your
wife and little ones and flee out of the
land of secession. Had l the power
and means l would assuredly go down
and bring you out, with horses
and oxen and cattle, and sheep and
goats, and jackasses at least, so that
you settle and vie with any of the
wise men of the east. Why dwell
among traitors who will ever place
you in jeopardy and subject your wife
to constant alarms, if not to widow
hood, and your children to all the
demoralizations which surround
slavery and spring from secession?
Here you would have peace without
a revolution and could be intermina-
bly, amused with the antics of the alb
olitionists and the strong-minded wo-
men. Their conventions are equal to
hippopotamus.
Besides this your children would be
educated in the fear of the Lord, and
not in the fear of instructions. AS
the Great Shepherd of Texas men
would flock to do you reverence for
having escaped out of Sodom,
and as the queen of Sheba went out to
meet the wise men, so will the
women, the widows and the damsels
delight to go out and meet you; and
your latter end, like the upright man
of the land of w, will be better than
the beginning. And then think what
a funeral you would have-one that,
as Byron says, "makes the attractions
and the black the Woe"
1t is worth considering as COM
promise. Washington is full of
loafers and upon the eve of
an Inauguration, perhaps an assassina-
ton! The cabinet is not yet formed,
but they are at work upon it. There
are breakers ahead, and unless Lincoln
has courage, frmness and sagacity
enough to throw off the swell mob of
politicians who would counsel him to
surrender his own to their bitter judg-
ments, he is in danger of
having the drop game played
upon him. There never was such
a crowd of shrewd, untiring, unscrupul-
GUS Yankees surrounding any man as
there is now surrounding honest old
Abe. He is virtuous like old women,
but the danger is he will be persuaded
like them to surrender his virtue to
another's kind care and keeping. If
he surrenders he is undone, and the
proofs will not be nine months in
bearing evidence against him. 1t
will be clear case
of bastardy, which may and
will be charged against the basest set
of hbertines that ever infested
and ruined an honest
fresh from the country.
John Tyler and poor Pierce had
been seduced and so often debauched
before that people scarcely pitied
them, but in the case of honest old
Abe it would arouse all the fury of the
abolitionists, the virtuous indignation
of the strong minded women, and all
to virtue would be over
thrown.
Pray write us long letter for pub
Misunderstanding startling, terrible
as an army with banners in blue
jackets. Yours as ever,
THOMAS SHANKLAND.