Year: 1860

! 10 tho Democracy Of the .stato Of Texas


The Democracy in State Convention at nous.


ton in May last resolved to hold their next State


Convention on the I'd April. 1900. In the city Of


Galveston.


This body will assemble for tho purpose Of


adopting State Platform and nominating candi.


dates for tho Offices Of State Comptroller. Treas


urer, and Attorney General. IL will also ap-


point n delegation N tho National Convention at


OF April next.
Through the libcrali,y OF the Rail Road Com.


panies the delegates to the State Convention will


he able to go from Navasota city or any interme.


date point on the Houston Central, and Calves
ton and Henderson Road. and from Eagle Lake.
or any intermediate point on tho Harrisburg
Road, to the city OF Galveston, and to return to
said points after tho adjournment of The Couven-
tion, FREQ Of charge.


am also able TO say that Messrs. Horris &
Morgan will pass from New Orleans to Calves.
ton and hack. rrEr. the Red River delegates,
when assured that tie proper parties make the
application.


In again calling You together. must say that
have met tho Democracy of Texas on several oc
casions in State Convention, but at no pas. time,
have l looked forward with deeper solicitud,
than now do to the approach OF this assembly.
The work OF transcendent interest is the adoI-
tion of q Platform emhodying the sentiments Of
the Democracy of Texas, and thus really declar-
ing the position of tho mass of our people on the
grave issues now before the country. Texas can
not bc neutral in controversy with the North.
She has the same rights under the Constitution
to defend as her sister Southern States, and her
whole past history refntes tho calun,ny that
she is willing to compromise away those rights at
the demand of the Black Republican marty. A
firm and determined stand in favor of our right
to the protection of our property in the terrific.
rles is demanded as well by our interests as hy
tho respect we owe the Northern Democrats,
whose noble and self sacrificing devotion to tho
Constitution has led them to do battle for us
against the Black Republican cohorts until they,
themselves, are we'll nigh blotted out of political
power in all the Northern Statos. To fail now
to take high stand in defense of our own rights
in this controversy, is to overwhelm in defeat and
to annihilate those friends. They call upon US
in voice of solemn warning. to tell the Black
Republicans the cost of their incenrlary success
of their first overt act of rreason-in succeed.
ing to the rein Of the federal government and if
we become weak and irresolute and false to our
selves and perfdious to our friends at this mo-
ment, for the abandoned purpose of obtaining
only tho spoils of Office, we must be prepared to
see the last stone of the last great breakwater
against the swelling tids of Northern fanaticiam
overthrown, and the polluted flood wipe out OF
existence forever the Democracy of the North,
and with 1t tho last hope of the Union.


The Opposition at the South is totally unrelid-
Bile. The recent election for Speaker in the Fed
,ral Congress convincea us Of this fact. Tho
irst Southern man to betray the South and vote
Tor Black Republican, was Henry Winter Da-
'is, of Maryland, member of the Opposition
party. We have also tho further fact that while
The Democracy had over four times the number
If members on the floor OF the House, the Oppo-
ition party factiously withhold their united aid
until the thrty-ninth ballot, and even than, when
he Democracy magnanimously voted for mem-
Ter of the Opposition party, to effect an organiza-
ation, tho latter party still failed to show uni
ed front in his support. Again, at previous
'allot, had all the Opposition members from tho
lave States concentrated upon the Democratic
lominee, we should have lacked but one vote OF
IN election, and there is reason to believe that wo
ould have obtained it. A miserable faction
which at suoh times as these will seek to exhibis
0 the Northern enemy divided Southern front,
nd thereby encourage their assaults and aggres-
ions by convincing them of our inherent weak
esa and decrepitude, is corrupt to the very core.
The election of n Black Republican Speaker on
he 44th ballot was effected with the vote of Hem
y Winter Davis. 1t was member of the Oppo-
ition party in the the South, upon whom thu
dium of treason rests. That same party is in
cxas--it is at our doors, and it is constant in
IS efforts to throw every obstacle in the way ofA
ll and clear expression of the sentiments and
selngs of the masses against the enemies Of our
outhern institutions. We must be warned in
mc. Every true man now in the ranks of the
opposition has everything to lose by longer afHl-
lting with it. The Democratic party seek To-
nstain the Union on the basis Of tho Constitu-
on, and hs who would wish to save the Union
n this basis will find cordial welcome in our
inks. JOHN MARSHALL.


Chairman of State Committee.



Rules adopted by tho Democratic State Con-
,ution of 1858.