Year: 1875

which is the result Of party meas
ure, has peculiar difficulty before
it--that of pleasing the,other side.
The policy of calling such conven-
ton may be party affair, but its
work should never be partizan
work, and hence its adoption or re-
lection cannot properly be consider
ed strict party measure. The
bitterest partizan who ever entered
the capitol Of a State, when he
comes TO make a set of fundamen-
tai principles for the governance OF
all its people, and not only for the
present, but for all the future, isl
confronted by circumstances which
causes him to forget all about
party or partizan affairs. He ad-l
dresses himself to the task and fears
only that il will not be so dis
charged as to challenge the ap-.
proval of the good of all ages.


Perhaps no single man of all the
thousands of Texas, who voted for
the Convention, finds that all his
peculiar notions have been consult
ed in the framing of the new Con-
stitution. Many things have not
been acted upon,which he considered
vitality important. Many things
have been done which he may con
slider as superhous, and often wrong,
but in cases of this kind. the only
safe rule or guide TO correct action,
is TO aggregate. That is: each
man must look at the Constitution
as whole, and if it has more of
good, than of evil, in his own esti-
nation, in it, it challenges and
should receive his support on its
merits. But there are other con-
siderations which urge themselves
upon us of Texas, at this time, and
with a force well nigh irresistible.
They are We are young State,
and were only just struggling into
recognition when our late terrible
war overlook us. During its pre-
valence, of course progress was
checked. After its close came y
long series of years of disfranchise-
ment, and consequent foreign rule.
The good and the true of our peo-
pie almost dispaired. In good
time, however; the reaction came,
the people again had a voice in the
affairs of the State its own prop.
erty holders and tax-paying intel!
ligence were again to control its
destinies. The miserable one
sided partizan Constitution forced
upon chained and helpless people
by an irresponsible tyrannical and


ruthless minority, was to be Cotton
rid OF, and this was the first duty of
redeemed and disenthralled Texas.


Hew well she has discharged this
duty, posterity only can tell, when
illustrated by few years of candid


and honest experiment.


That she has given us perfect


instrument, none among her most


sanguine friends claim, that she has


given us one infinitely superior tc


the one the minority gave us, none


can deny, and indeed all concede. A


this delicate and interesting junct


ure of our history, political res'
and quiet is an absolut, necessity


Every hope, present and prospect


I've, OF the State, hangs upon good


stable, wise, liberal and enlightene,


government. And the duty of Civ
ing this great boon to her does no


rest on our fathers who sleep il


pioneer graves, will not rest upoI
our children who are to come after
but the duty is ours, and our man
hood will not permit us to shirk it
Then,'let us rally to the support o
the Constitution, give it an homes
trial, and leave the task of improv
ing it to be performed by that OK
perience alone, which shall develol
its faultss