Year: 1872

large number of the Democracy o.


Collin county met at the Courthouse


in Mckinney on Saturday, the 11th


day of May, A. ID. 1872, and organ.


lied the meeting by the election OF


Col. Thomas II. Murray, Chairman
and r. G. Goodncr, Secretary.


On motion, committee of seven,
one from each precinct and two from
the county at large, was appointed
to draft resolutions expressive of the
sense of tho meeting. The follow
ing gentlemen were appointed on
this committee, viz: Gov. j. w.
Throckmorton, Col. John Johnson,
Capt.J. X. Bumpass, Col. Ed. Cham
bers, Capt. Alex Newman, G. III.
Wysong and w. G.. Matthews.


During the retirement ofthe COM
mittce the meeting was addressed
by Col. r. D. Allison.


The committee returned and re-
ported through its chairman, Gov.
j. W. Throckmorton, the following
resolutions, which were unanimous
ly adopted, viz:


Resolved, by the Democracy of Col
lin county in mass meeting assem-
bled, that the approaching political
contest State and Federal, is to be
regarded by every patriot and lover
of free government as ofthe gravest
importance.


That the approaching State elec-
tion must result in the redemption
oftho State from misrule, oppression
and bankruptcy, or continue it un-
der the domination of those whose
official conduct, stamps their every
act with malice and hatred to the
great body Of its people.


That we regard the issues in the
coming contest in this State to be
between those on the one hand who
would enact laws and administer
them for the benefit and protection
of all classes alike, and those who
would humlate the intelligence of
the State for the qualification of the
ignorant, would oppress the wealth
and industry of the country for the
enrichment of adventures and the
prohigate, who would exclude from
places of trust and authority the
virtue intelligence and nativity Of
the State for the aggrandiznmcnt Of
the vicious, the ignorant, and those
who are strangers to our people and
their interests; and, as between
those who will respect the fairly ex-
pressed will of the majority and
those who would stife that voice
and resort to the most fragrant out
RACES to thwart it, and rs between
that class OF our people who would
invoke the aid of the Constitution
in maintaining the supremacy ofthe
civil over the military power Of the
State for the protection of life and
liberty, property and good govern
ment, and those who would tramplc
the one in tho dust, and resort to
the military powers for the purpose
of retaining power and crushing
out the liberties of the people.


That while we believe in the ne
cessity and propricty of q Free Pub
lie School system, we dcpricato the
prostration of every other interest
in the State for tho promotion of
this one alonc.


That a judicious and gradual dis
position of the large portions Of the
public domain, heretofore set aside
by the founders of Texas for the
purpose of endowing universities
and aiding in the support Of COM
mon schools, with moderate taxation,
is all that should be demanded, and
is amply sufficient to inaugurate the
system on a broad and liberal basis


That the levy and collection of
enormous sums for the building of
school houses in the very beginning
Of the work is both burdensome and
unnecessary.


That the Misrepresentation of the
vast sums thus wrung from an OPP
pressed people in paying teachers,
and in supporting in office worth
less and useless host of travelling
political partisans, is an outrage
upon docency, perversion of the
law and disgrace to the State.


That while we approve judi
cious system of Internal Improve
ments, we condemn as unwise the
infiction of heavy burdens upon
the industry and capital ofthc State
for the promotion of such works,
and where the same has been done
in such manner as TO require the
assumption of liabilities by the State,
then we favor the imposition of
such provisions as will gradually
bring back to the Treasury of the
State the amount of tho burdens so
imposed, where the same may be at
tainable by proper legislation; and,
in this connection we arc in favor
of so amending the State constitu-
ton as to supply from the public
domain, lands in place of the bonds
of tho State in fulfillment of such
legal obligations.


That in Federal politics, We re-
gard the struggle as between the
of Republican institutions
and the administration of the gov
ernment within the limitations pre-
scribed by the Constitution, with a
proper and well defined observance
Of the reserved rights of the States
on the one hand, and those on the
other who would imperialize the