Year: 1876

which It would be unjust not to give entire. 1t
is as follows


JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to removal of


United StatesstroOps.


Whereas by the result of the late war between
the Confederate States and the United States, the
President of the United States thought proper,
in order to aid the civil authorities in the mante
nance of order and good conduct within the State
of Texas, to quarter within said State, United
elapsed since the cessation of hostiities, and the
publication and almost unanimous acceptance of
the proclamation of the President of the United
pie Of said State, restoring them to citizenship in
said Government, emitting them to all benefits
resulting therefrom; and whereas the State has
and good conduct within said State, by and with
9 gssts PeGRsS
whereas, for many reasons not necessary here
to enumerate the troops quartered in said State
much-needed work of restoration of civil
government; and whereas further, the frontier of
the State Of Texas, on the northwest, is without
that military aid and protection which Is neces-
sary, and which 1t must have, the citizens
thereof be compelled to abandon their much-loved
homes and return into the interior of the State,
thereby giving up to the savage Indian all that
portion of our State, and at the same time,
thereby bringing with them the frontier that is,
sublecting the people of the interior, who are now
free from the ravages of the heartless savage, to
all the inconvenience of frontier life; and
whereas further, If the troops now uselesSly



moved to the frontier, they would be able to give
the necessary protection to the people thereof as
well as the people Of the whole State; now, there
fore,


Be it resolved by the Legislature Of the State of
Terds, That the people Of the State have in good
faith returned to their allegiance to the Govern
ment of the United States, and having full de-
termination to stand to, abide by, and comply
with the Constitution and laws made in pursuance
thereof, the Governor of the State be requested
to use all proper means to assure the President
of the United States thereof; and that he be
further requested to use all legitimate means to
obtain the removal Of the United States troops
now quartered in Texas, and that they, or others,
in sufficient numbers to give protection, be sta
toned on the frontier Of the State as early as
practicable.


Approved October 2, 1865.


After which they passed a long string of
resolutions "inviting labor and capital into the
State," to enjoy the blessings of the labor and
apprentice laws that they had enacted, by
which "impudence" was made penal offense
and 'cuss words" were to be banished by fines
and imprisonment-skilIed labor and much
capital being especially and cordially invited,
because they desired "with the termination of
the war to see terminated the jealousies and
animosities between the different sections of
our great country" Behold how beautiful
it is to see brethren dwell together in unity.


The record of the legislation of the South
proves that, judged by one of the highest
standards known to civilization, there has been
no change on the part of the rebel Democracy
of this section of the country upon the vital
questions of slavery and the rights of man;
that the same dogmas held by them before
the rebellion, during the war, and since the
close of hostilities by organized armies still
governs and controls them, and that the same
hatred of the national authority and of its
exercise in these States still exists. This
hatred grows out of the determination of the
governing class to maintain the absolute sub
ordination of the laboring classes, white or
black, and they hate the General Government
because it stands in the way of their ancient
policy, and they will continue to hate it until
they again control it and change it.


But, it is contended that they have finally
ssaccepted the situation" That they have not
done so is also abundantly proven by their
legislative record, for in every Southern State
in which they have regained power, they have
contemptuously defied the guarantees of the
Congress contained in the acts of their read
mission into the Union, by calling constitu-
tional conventions and adopting new constitu-
tions, utterly ignoring and in direct conflict
with these guarantees. They might have
accepted the situation had not their Dem
cratic allies of the North declared that the
reconstruction laws and Constitutional amend
ments were unconstitutional, null and void;'
a declaration that has never been modified or
withdrawn.


The hope of regaining control of the Ma
tional Government through their Northern
allies and of being able to "reform" or restore
'the Constitution and the Union as it was"
has brought about solid South, made solid
by the same deliberate system of ostracism
and denunciation that made 1t so at the period
of the rebellion. The Union men of that day
were "submissionists and abolitionists," as
loyal men to-day are "carpet-baggers and
scalawags," and 1t requires strong heroes to
face menacing mob, as ready with Winches-
ter rifles as with foul words, and always armed
with both. Are these people, who have so
often and go persistently proven their dis
loyalty to the fundamental principles of
human liberty, to be again trusted with the
control and administration of the Government
they have so hated? A solid South! You had
it at Richmond; beware lest it capture
Washington. CAMERON.


BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, Oct. l, 1876.