Year: 1879

Now after having visited Southern, Western.
Central and Northern Texas, few general com
meDts on this subject would seem not out of place.
There is an idea in the North that the heavy North
ern immigration here is rapidly leavening the hard
lump of Texas Democracy. and that eventually this
will be Republican State. fanking the old South
and STRENGTHENING the North in of future sec
tional controversies. am sorry to say that there
is no ground for this pleasing notion. Nowhere is
the Southern Democracy more extreme intolerant
and ambitious than in this State. Except in half
dozen northern counties the Northern settlers have
made no impression. Elsewhere they are swal-
lowed up in the mass, and find ii comfortable to
lay aside their opinions and 90 with the majority,
or to refrain entirely from political action. Then,
for every immigrant who has come from the North
during the past few years at least three have come
from the OLD Slave States, bringing with them the
hatred of the Republican party they imbibed at
home, and the determination 10 make the South
powerful in National politics by its unity. The
great wave of Southern immigration which
has been flowing into Texas ever since the
war closed is made up Of two elements-young
men OF good families who come TO seek their
fortunes, and who engage in trade, the profess
sions and planting; and "pOor white trssh,' who
are attracted here by tales of the with which
a living can be made from the SOIL The young
men of education and good family are intense
Democrats They came to manhood In their old
homes during the reconstruction period, when
hatred of tho Republican party was at fever heat,
and when TO be anything but Democrat was 70
be looked traitor to family, friends. society
and TO the South which they were Taught to regard
ms still political entity to which their devotion
was due. They have extravaGant ideas OF the
future of Texas. They believe the South IS des-
tined again 10 rule the country, and that Texas
will rule the South One Of the Dallas papers said
the other day that Texas would one day have as
many people ms the whole of the, United
States has now. The programme of these
ambitions Texas Democrats is to keep their
state solid and make it the controlling power IT.
the Democratic party, which they imagine VIII
govern the country for generation TO come. When
Texas is full Of people, Mexico will be annexed they
say and the South will gain a preponderance In
Congress that can never he overcome. Ghey be-
lieve Texas will have twenty members OF Congress
after the census Of 1880. and rs many as Newly Ork
after 1890. All this is absuIdlv visionary, hut II
does not seem so to the Texas politicians. Living
in n big State seems 70 have expanded their ideas
and ambitions without liberaLzing their politics.
The plain fact about Texas is. that notw1thstand-
ing its immense geographical extent II contains no
more good land than Illinois. ana IS not 1keiv 10
attain population of over 5000 600 in the present
century. The character Of the country and tho peo-
ple does not tcnd to dense settlement or 70 the
buildnp up Of large cities In all probability the
cities of New-Yorl1 and Brooklyn will ALWAYS have
about many inhabitants as the whole OF the Lone
Star State.


Ii is hard TO find a Texan. however whether Guo-
rant or intelligent who is not drunk with the wine
of great expectations The rapid deve lopment OF
the State since the hard times beginning I'M 1873
started the tide of Western immigration, has turned
their heads. and the dreams hey indulge in of great
material prosperity and enormous advance IN popu-
latiOn seem to have had the effect Of making them
intense and unchanGeable IN their politics. They
think they owe a dutv to the South great in the
ratio of the expected growth of their State. If
biitv would be small but they imagine IT
is to be Of enormous political Importance, and
they feel in honor bound to bring II
nm 3s reinforcement and powerful support 10 their
brethren who with them struggled for the Lost
Cause.


HOW NORTHERN MEN ARE CONVERTED.


Let it not be understood that Republican Is In
any danger of physical harm account of his poll
tics if he settles in any part Of Texas The davs of
violence have gone by. Except in few localities
the Democratic preponderance is great that there
is no temptation TO encourage rutianism to gain
success But there are a thousand ways in which
social and business pressure is brought TO bear upon
anewcomer to persuade him to become Democrat
He is told enormous lies about Radical msgOver-
ment and rascaity is assured that the Republicans
although no doubt very respectable people in the
North, are very bad lot in the South, and that
he, being well-meaning man, should beware of
associating with them. He is asked if he
would ike to see the ignorant, british
negroes govern him, and put taxes on his
property. He finds that the men of in
IN ".
merchants lawyers and preachers, who can aid
him In his struggle 10 get on In life IN his new
home. are all strong Democrats. who look upon a
Republican with suspicion and aversion. Is II any
wonder that he Is speedily converted TO Democracy
In case he sticks TO his pTlnciples and takes an
active mart IN politics as a Republican, the best
people Will not buy goods of him If he Is mer-
chant will not employ him If he is a mechanic
will not retain him if he a lawyer, VIII not give
him practice if he is a doctor. As a farmer he can
get along, because his cattle and corn are as sal
able as anyOBes, but he feels that he is under a
ban and looked hostile to tho true interests
of the community. Ii takes pretty obstinate sort
Of man 10 hold out long against such pressure.
There will, no doubt, be gradual change for the
better in the Northern counties, but DO not thnk
IL will extend over the State. For many years 10
come the Southern immigration will be larger than
that from the North. Texas Is more attractive to
the DeODle on the poor. thin lands Of the CarOnas,
Georgia and Alabama than 10 the people on the good
lands of the North and West. We are apt 10 I'M
derate the productive capacity of the poorer classes
of the South and their emgratlng enterprise. They
multiply rapidly, and. Ignorant and poor as they
are are moved by the same migrating Instinct
which works in the rural population OF the North.
In earlier days they peOpled the great states
of Kentucky, Tennessee Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas aud Missouri. and they are now
there is no progress them, no love for adventure,
no am hitiOn and no industry beyond what IL neces-
sary 10 procure cOrn-bTead and bacon 10 eat, hut
10 live in little clothing of the cheapest KIND and
a great deal OF mean whlskey. But they are here
in large force and more of them are coming every
month and the worst of 1t is that they ali vote the
Democratic ticket, and hate everybody, white or
black. who votes anything else. Z. vi





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