Year: 1874




ON Thursday evening the 9th IN
stant, the citizens Of Austin celebrated
the inauguration OF the new State gov
ernment by 4 magnificent ball given
in the State capitol, TO which all The
ladies of the State were invited. Tht
committee in charge of the arrange
mcnts for this fitting testimonial tt
our new executive officer, was conf
posed Of the most honored names nj
the capital, and all the preparations
for the occasion were made with that
lavish proiusion and faultiess taste
that has always characterized the queen
city of the Colorado.


AS the recipient Of an invitation to
this brilliant .jctc, we have been struck
with the admirable taste in which the
invitations were gotten up, and with
! the patriotic impulses of the gentlemen
who superintendod their preparation.
We do not refer to the tasteful manner
in which the typographical work was
executed. This was worthy of all com
mendation; but is of no significance
compared with the magnanimous SEN
timents chosen by the committee to be
printed on the invitations. On the
/ upper left hand corner, within
Il beautiful border, was the following
generous and noble extract from the
! inaugural address of Governor Coke
'NTe must forget the passions ana
preiudices OF the past, and vie with
each other only in a generous emula-
ton to subserve the true interests of
! our glorious State;' and in the right
corner, within similar border,
the following manly words from
the inaugural address of Lieuten-
ant Governor Hubbard: "It shall be my
own, as it is my pledge, to act con-
scientiously and impartially, knowing
no purty or sect in The official discharge
Of the trust reposed in me by the peo-
pie of TeXas.n These utterances look
like apes of gold in pictures OF silver,
as contrasted with the partisan express
sions that have become SO familiar to
the people in the night of oppression
from which we have just emerged.
And yet they are nothing more than
the ordinary expressions Of feeling that
ought to govern all officers elected to
public positions in republican govern
ments. The man should cease to be a
partisan when he becomes an officer,
and should no longer know his fellow
citizens save as common memhers of
the body polite, entitled alike to all
the benefits, and subject alike to all
the burdens, derived from obedience to
the laws, or imposed for their violation.
These, we say, are the feelings that
should animate public officers III ordi-
nary and normal conditions of society.
But it is in no ordinary and normal
condition in which the people Of Texas
find themselves, and i'll which the
above quoted language of their chosen
chief executive officer was spoken.
The people of Texas have been much
sinned against. For four years they
have been made the unwilling victims
of pack of unprincipled adventures,
foisted upon them by federal bayonets.
The Inauguration of Coke and Hubbard
is the end of this reign of wickedness;
and that these chosen representatives
of the people should have pledged
themselves to bury all the passions and
prejudices of the past, and should at
the same time have called upon the
people of Texas to forget all they have
suffered and forgive their prosecutors
and slanderers, presents a picture of
magnanimity IN which angels might
look without blush.


Every feeling of our neart is i'll uni
son with these sentiments. We re-
member all that Texas has suffered, we
know whose hands have given us the
blows, but in the noontide of peace
and prosperity that the new regime
has blessed us with, we are too full OF
thankfulness to the giver of all good
to cherish any resentment for the past,
and are prepared, as Governor Coke
admonishes us to do, to bury all our
passions and prejudices forever. In
saying this, however, we do not wish
to be misconstrued. While we are pre-
pared to forgive, and do forgive, Texans
for their past afiiliation with our ene-
mics and oppressors, we still claim that
they should show "fruits meet for re-
pentance." They must take back seats,
and sit there quietly for a good while,
before they can be expected to be taken
again into that trust and confidence
that they forfeited by going oifafter the
flesh pots of Radicalism and iniquity
As for the poor, dciuded Africans, who
composed the far greater part of "the
party" we have not feeling towards
them that is not of the kindest nature
We can easily forgive them, for they
: knew not what they did. They were
duped and deceived, and when they
find out that all the stories that were
told them about their being reduced t
slavery again were but the vilest false


hoods, they will learn TO trust their ole
masters again, and will scout the ap


peals of The carpetbagger and .scalawai
as an insult even to their small modi


cum of brains.


The Siamese twins, who have TO
! fifty years been the physiological an
anatomical puzzle of the scientifi
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