The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1866 Page: 2 of 4
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Edited daring tbe Campaign under the SuperrUion ot
TBI EXBCDTITE COMMITTEE,
of the Union Party.
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plrlt Of tilJal rre I p, jg. But such is not the case.
FOR GOVERNOR,
E. M. -PEA^E,
OF TRAVIS COUNTY.
POR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR,
L. LINDSAY,
OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
C. C. BINKLEY, of Grayson Co.
FOR COMPTROLLER,
JAMES SHAW, of Burleson Co.
FOR TREASURER,
SAM HARRIS, of Travis Co.
FOR COM'R OF THE LAND OFFICE,
F. M. WHITE, of Jackson Co.
FOR JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT,
WM. E. JONES, of Bexar Co.
JAS. H. BELL, of Williamson Co.
C. CALDWELL, of Grimes Co.
Declaration of Principles of
(be Union Party of Texas.
i. That we are unalterably devoted to
our republican form of government, as es-
tablished by the patriots of '76, and that we
denounce the assumption of those who seek
to justify tbe late rebellion by declaring tbat
republican institutions have proved to be a
failure; that rve have no sympathy with
monarchists or imperialists, but fondly hope
tbat our free institutions may endure to the
latest posterity: to which end we pledge
ourselves to contribute, as much as in us
lies, by a hearty and undeviating support of
tbe constitutional authority of tbe government
the United States, and of tbe State
Texas
From the Hoaston Telegraph.
We want the Conservative people of Texas
to be on their guard against those tricks of
the Radical Disunion party of the State,
which are intended to bring about violence
and lawlessness, that they may profit from
, it. One of thair purposes is, to make them-
selves so odious to the people of Texas as to
tempt honest but thoughtless people to abuse
' them, so that they may claim to be persecu-
! ted, and call upon the military authorities to
; protect persecuted Union men ! All this is
! manifest from the course of both Gov. Hamtl-
i ton arid Gen. Gregory. And if onr readers
i really wish to get at the animus of the Radi-
cal Disunion party of Texas, they have only
i to take the course of Gov. Hamilton, and the
course of Gen. Gregory, and put them to-
gether, and the illustration is complete. The
one is malignantly bitter in his hatred of the
people of the State, and of everything South-
ern in its character; and the other is mean
in his spirit and odious in his associations.
The Radical Disunion party follows in their
lead, and seeks to make itself just as odious
and just as much hated as possible, so that
the honest people of the State may be tempted
out of their propriety, and do something of
which they can take advantage.
Again —
The Radical Disunioniats in Congress have
a resolution under discussion declaring it ne-
cessary to execute a sufficient number of
" leading rebels in each State lately in rebel-
lion to vindicate the majesty of-the law.
They really do mean, if,they can accomplish
it, to hang all the leading men of the late
Confederacy who have endeared themselves
to the Southern people, either in their mili-
tary or civil capacities. And the success of
the Radical Disunion party of Texas, headed
by ex Gov. E. M. Pease aad Judge J. H. Bell,
would be an immense gain of strength to the
Radicals in Congress in their efforts to carry
out such a diabolically bloody scheme. Let
the voters of the State reflect on this danger
between now and the fourth Monday in June.
The insidious malignancy of the
above extracts from the organ of the
secession party in this State is too
to deceive the most
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2. Tbat we fully recognize the supremacy j transparent
of the Constitution of tbe United States, i -.-..-i .mj„
and of the law9 made in pursuance thereof: | casuai leauc .
that we believe it was wisely ordained tbat \ spirit and uttered with the same de-
they.should be the supreme law of the land, | . i •
in all the States of the Union, anything in ¡ Sign as the advice OÍ One of the lead-
the Constitutions or laws of the States to the er3 0f the Philadelphia mob against
the Catholics some years ago, who
said, " there, fellow-citizens, is a
Catholic Church, and at its alters
ministers one of the vilest priests
that ever disgraced humanity, don t
burn that church." In less than
three hours the church was a smould-
ering ruin. No article that ever ap-
peared in the venal columns of the
Telegraph itself was more redolent
of mob law and violence. Gov. Pease
remarked, upon reading the. latter
extract, that he could not conscien-
tiously say that the writer of it ought
not to be hung, but if elected Gover-
nor, no honest man in the State would
feel any fear. The use of the word
" Disunion" by the Telegraph is ad-
mirable !
From tbe Red Land Express.
In our last notice we spoke of the New Con-
stitution, more particularly in reference to tbe
enormous and extravagant increase of salar-
ies allowed government officials. We will
refer to this again, but before doing so we
will notice some of the amendments and finali-
ties, or rather tbe usurpation of undelegated
powers on the part of the Convention. If
this or that State pandering to the opinions,
prejudices and fanaticism of New England
Radicals, ha# incorporated clauses in its Con-
stitution inconsistent with truth, and the
honor and dignity of the State, it is no cause
for Texas to do likewise. She is an entirely
distinct separate and independent sovereignty as
contrary notwithstanding: that we regard
tbe Union of the States, under tbe Constitu-
tion, as tbe best guarantee of civil liberty to
the American people, and that under the
powerful and benign influence of tbe Union,
we and our posterity may reasonably hope to
enjoy the fullest protection for life and prop-
erty, and the largest measure of prosperity
and happiness.
3. That we hold the act of Secession,
adopted, in Convention, at the City of Austin,
on the 1st day of February, A. D., 1861, to
have been in violation of tbe Constitution of
the United States, and of the constitutional
obligation of tbe State of Texas to the other
States of the Union, and therefore null and
void from the beginning.
4. That we feel, in its full force, the obli-
gation which rests upon the whole people of
tbe United States, to maintain the national
credit; and to tbat end we pledge ourselves
to give a hearty support to the uational gov-
ernment in all proper efforts for the liquida-
tion and discharge of the pnblic debt: and
we will oppose every effort to repudiate the
same, and every effort to burden the loyal
people of the United States with tbe debt of
tbe Confederate States or any portion of it
5. Tbat we have unabated confidence
that tbe wisdom and patriotism of tbe Pres-
ident of tbe United States and of th« repre-
sentatives of the people in Coagress assem-
bled, will prove adequate to the task of guid-
ing tbe country safely through tbe perils and
difficulties of tbe present time, and of re-
storing the States to tbeir constitutional re-
lations to each other, in such manner that
tbe great principles of constitutional liberty
will be at tbe same time vindicated and pre-
served.
6. That we acquiesce sincerely ia the act
of the nation abolishing slavery, and tbat'we
will endeavor to ameliorate tbe condition Of
the freed pe&ple in our midst, by treating
them with justice, and by according to them,
not grudgingly, but willingly and heartily,
the rights which are now, or may hereafter
be, secured to them by the Constitution and Tegards her reserved powers.
tbe {aws.
7. That we proclaim anew the liberty of
speech and of the press, and tbe right of the
people to assert and publish tbeir opinions
upon all subjects touching the public wel-
fare : tbat upon tbe preservation of these in-
estimable rights depend tbe permanent
existence and value of republican govern-
ment ; that tbeir suppression in this State,
during tbe past five years, was' both ruinous
and despotic, and that we hold it to be one
of tbe highest duties of the people to rally
to their re-assertion, and to fix them upon
immovable foundations.
8. That our form of government reposes
upon the intelligence of the people, and that
au honest and patriotic devotion to its great
principles is entirely consistent with individ-
ual freedom of opinion : that we fully recog-
nize the fact that very grave questions are
now, for the first time, presented to the peo-
ple, and that we therefore freely tolerate dif-
ferences of opinion upon all subjects not em-
braced within the foregeing propositions.
States Rights Under the So-
Called "Confederacy."—When
one who went into secession early and
heartily speaks of States Bights, it
naturally excites a smile on the part
of his hearers. What right did any
insurgent State have under the so-
called "Confederacy?" Did the
United States government ever put
an export duty on cotton ? Did it
ever provide for and enforce a con-
scription ? Did it ever impress either
labor, or property ? Did it ever tax
its own paper? Upon the whole
does not a "conservative" make
himself rather ridiculous when he
uses the phrase States Bights ?
When President Johnson, whose
policy in every particular every
4i conservative" feels called on to en-
dorse, caused Major Gen. Sickles,
when the Legislature of South Caro-
lina was in session, to put forth a
military order which repealed all
their legislation in regard to freedmen
and substituted another code in its
stead, very likely they regarded it as
an illustration of their idea of States
Rights. _
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
makes a wicked lunge at the very un-
derpinning of society. He says
" tilting hoopa" enable,the common
people to see a great deal more of
stood society than they ever saw be-
fore."
Men of Texas—lay your hands upon your
bosoms and ask conscience, the little monitor
within, if you can blaspheme the name of
Almighty God by endorsing the following in-
famous lie, and furnish your posterity with
the most lasting of all written traditions to
prove that you were abolitionists by choice.
Read and answer: $
"We the people of Texas acknowledging with
gratitude the grace of God in permitting us
to mate choice of our own firm of government, do
ordain and establish this Constitution.'' If
we substitute " Andy Johnson" for " God"
aDd "his" for "our" we would have it.
Again, our Convention has ignominiously re-
nounced the right of secession. The right
claimed by tbe almost unanimous voice of tbe
people of Texas in 1861: "Be it ordained by
the people of Texas in Convention assembled,
that we acknowledge the supremacy of tbe
Constitution of the United States, and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof; and tbft
an ordinance adopted by a former Convention
of the people of Texas on the 1st day of Feb.
A. D. 1861. entitled "An Ordinance to dis-
solve the Union between the State of Texas
and the other States, united under the com-
pact styled " Constitution of the United States
of America," be and the same is hereby de-
clared null and void ; this is all right so far,
bat the abominable ordinance continues as
follows : " and the right heretofore claimed by
the State of Texas to secede from the Union
is hereby distinctly renounced. Webster tells
us that renounced means disowned, denied fcc.
If secession was right in 1861, it is right to-
day. Although the act of secession per se has
been rendered null and void by force of arms,
yet the right has certainly not been impaired.
Here we have the old dogma of
secession as broadly stated and main-
tained as in the good old times of
1860—1. The editor is, however,
logical in his conclusions. If the
right of secession ever existed as a
constitutional remedy, it certainly
exists to-day, and no convention of
apy one State has the power to re-
nounce a right conferred by the Con-
stitution of the United States. That
could only be effected by an amend-
ment adopted by a two*thirds vote of
all the States. The preamble adopt'
ed by the Convention by " the grace
of God," is charmingly commented
upon.
From the Waco Register.
havi we a Cosgbiss ?—The Constitution
guarantees to each State two Senators in
Congress, and a certain number of Represen-
tatives, agreeably to population. A* eleven •
ot the States are not represented in either
branch of the {Resent Coagress, the question
whether or not the aeta of said Congress are
legitimate and binding has been mooted,' and
«mains yet to be determined. If the said
Stateabad refused, or foiled to elect their
Md ^«wutives, there would be
legality and binding
Senators
Representatives from all of them, except
Texas have been duly elected, made
licatiou for their seats and been rejected,
'he fundamental principle of our govern-
ment the principle indeed the violation of
which led to the revolt of the Colonies, and
the establishment of their independence—was,
1 there should be no taxation without representa-
tion." Our forefathers, when England passed
her Sump Act, asserted this principle, and
declared, in the face of tbe world, that they
were ready to pay " millions for defence, but
not one cent for tribute." But what Great
Britain could not do, or failed to effect, tbe
Radical Congress have done without the
slightest obstacle or hindrance. To-day we
are divested of the right of representation,
while Federal office holders are collecting
enormous taxes that have been levied upon
the people. Under such circumstances, we
do sot believe in the constitutionality, or
binding force, of any law that the present
Rump Congress may have passed. We be-
lieve the Supreme Court will decide the in-
famous Civil Rights bill to be unconstitution-
al for the reasons we have set forth, and for
the further reason that it was designed to
affect a race of people, inhabitants for the
most part, of the very States which were de-
nied representation. We would not be sur-
prised if the President entirely disregarded
the law—looking upon it as a simple act of
usurpation. Entertaining the views he doep,
as expressed in his Veto Message, we cannot
see bow be can do otherwise than to con-
sider it as null and void from the beginning.
Should be take that course, what then will
the Radicals do? There are those who seem
to think that they will, unhesitatingly, im-
peach him. If so, it will not be the first time
that a Rump Legislative body, made up of
fanatics, have attempted to destroy an Ex-
ecutive. It was tried in the times of " Old
Noll," with what sucéess history tells us, and
from what we know of the firmce.«s and reso-
lution of President Johnson, we think it quite
unlikely, if attempted now, that the result
will be any different.
From the Indianola Times.
We wish it to be noticed particularly that
no discrimination is made in favor of Union-
ists, or sneaks who fought on neither side,
nor milk-and-water Rebs, who are now hang-
ing on the tail of radicalism in the foolish ex-
pectation of reaping some advantage thereby.
All similar claims throughout rebeldom are
to be similarly disposed of. No marvel that
repudiation of rebel State indebtedness is
insisted upon by the nigger Congress, them-
selves having established a precedent and set
the example.
In the above extracts we have the
whole policy of the secession leaders
and editors. The right of secession,
mob violence, disregard of tli
"nigger Congress," and the oft ex-
pressed hope that Mr. Johnson may
attempt to destroy the liberties o
the people by an usurpation of all th
powers of government.
We ask the people to read these
extracts carefully. Do they mean
peace ? Do they mean Union ? Do
they mean restoration ? And are
these men calculated to restore the
State to its former proud position in
the government ? No one but a fool
can think so, and no one but a knave
will assert it.
Dbath op Gen. Scott.—T.i^nt G®n. Win-
field Scott died at West Point on the 29th
ult. There wa3 a time when his demise
would have been heard through the whole
country with the most profound grief, inas-
much as bis services to this country had given
him a high place in the hearts of tbe Ameri-
can people ; now it is received with that stolid
indifference by the North, which will always
characterize the departure of men, who for-
getting every natural tie, link themselves
with the enemies of his country to contribute
to its destruction.
Benedict Arnold deserted the cause of his
country in the hour of need, and lived and
died with the contumely heaped upon him
that he so richly deserved. Gen. Scott es-
poused the cause of the North in opposition
to bis own section, and from that day the star
of his destiny commenced its decline. These
are historical facts, and though we should be
expected to tread lightly on the ashes of the
dead, yet with a due regard to the welfare ol
the living, we may be allowed to criticise ene
whose public life has brought him so con-
stantly on the stage.—Houston Star.
If any proof was wanting to show
that the old set of politicians in
Texas are unfit tobe readmitted into
the Union it is furnished in the fore-
going paragraph. A great and pa-
triotic man full of years and honors
has closed his honorable career.
Andrew Johnson as President of the
United States has ordered that such
fitting public mourning should be
exhibited as this nation should bestow
upon one who led former generations
of our countrymen in two wars with-
out ever losing a battle, and who is
universally conceded to have been
one of the greatest military chieftains
whose name is recorded on the page
of history. Because he could not
narrow down his nature and adhere
to the fortunes of rebellious Virginia
instead of the course of the country
under whose banner he had fought,
he is now sought to be covered with
obloquy. As John Randolph re
marked on a similar occasion: " The
jion was dead that received that
kick."
will be no part of "jthe Judge's " duties to
take charge of the " public funds," a trust
for which he proved himself so famous
as "Confederate Depositary," Good by
" Judge! "—S. A. Herald.
The foregoing article is clippec
from the San Antonio Herald. The
Herald is as usual mistaken. The
" conservative " of New Englanc
nativity formerly connected with
that sheet, and who gave it its char
acter, has not been appointed by
President Johnson to take cogni-
zance under the treaty over matters
connected with the slave trade in
Sierra Leon, which is the name of
the British colony, and is not as the
Herald blunderingly alleges "the
headquarters of the Liberian colo-
ny." It is another person of the
same name who was Commissary
General of the Ordnance of the
State of New York. The " con-
servatives" of Texas are crowing
too soon. Thus far not one of them
has been appointed to office by Pres
ident Johnson, and if one- by mis~
take should be appointed he would
not stand the ghost of a chance of
being confirmed by the United
States Senate. Palmer, late of the
San Antonio Herald, and " Depos-
itary " of the so-called Confederate
States, who ran off to Mexico with
a large amount of " Confederate'
gold, (some $50,000,) and who re
turned to San Antonio and ran off
again because the U. S. Government
was about to hold him responsible
for it, has got no office from Presi-
dent Johnson, and could no more
get one than could the present con-
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Heavy Blows Dealt Upon the'
/ " Conservatives.77
The heaviest blows that have been
dealt against the "conservatives
have been by themselves. When
Dr. Throckmorton wrote Gov. Ham
ilton, "When offered a Brigadier
Generalship I refused it," he showet
by his emphatic language that he
held that such an appointment when
tendered from a rebel source was re-
ceived with contempt and scorn.
When he added, " I was in command
of a separate organization raised by
act of the Legislature for special
purposes, and avowedly to keep the
frontier men out of Confederate ser-
vice," he but expressed the proud
consciousness he felt that he had
never been disloyal to the United
States Government and had never
so much as professed to be so.
When Judge Hancock told President
Johnson that "many of them, (i. e.
of the people of Texas,) proved their
loyalty to the Union by every sacri-
fice which madness and tyranny
could exact" he dealt a most pow
erful and telling blow against the
"conservatives," and at the same
time paid by inplication a most grace-
ful tribute to Gov Hamilton and
others (who like himself and divers
of his friends were refugees,) as well
as to the President of the United
States, all of whom, more fortunate
than l)r. Throckmorton, were able
to take refuge under the banner of
our country.
Despairing.
The following, cut from the N. Y.
News (Ben Wood's paper,) shows
that the " conservatives" at the
North are in a despairing condition.
The N. Y. News not only gives up
the contest, but turns its reproaches
on President Johnson much after the
style of the Rev. Petroleum V. Nas-
by. The admissions made by the
News are worthy of special attention
on the part of the "conservatives
of Texas:
no question aa to th*
Ko Texas " Conservative has
been Appointed to Office.
Niw Oblkans, May 26.
Editors of San Antonio Herald:
I send you a slip from the New Orleans
Times of May 10, which contains an item of
news, that may be new to you and your
readers. The Judge accepts the appointment,
having solicited it. So you see he will be
out of the country for some time to come—
a live Yankee official at last.
EX-REBEL.
CONFIRMATIONS.
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow-
ing : E. S. Jackson, Postmaster of Provi-
dence ; E. Parker, of South Carolina, Amer-
canConsul to Prince Edward's Island; L.
Blodgett, Consul to St. John's C. E ; G. W.
Palmer, U. S. Judge at Sierra Leon, under
treaty for the suppression of the slave trade.
We think we may safely congratulate two
continents, America and Africa, upon the
honor they receive from this appointment of
u the Judge,'' who has at last found the place
which suits him, a home among the " dark-
ies." Sierra toon is the headquarters of the
Liberian Colony in Africa. We presume it
As tbe House of Representatives has pass-
ed tbe Constitutional Amendment, reported
by the Committee on Reconstruction, by a
vote which shows that the Republican party
is so united upon this measure tbat its adop-
tion by Congress is probable, if not certain,
it is well that conservative people everywhere
should clearly comprehend tbe feelings which
govern the great mas - of the Republicans in
the North, and which constrain them to pur-
sue the violent and revolutionary course
which they have taken under tbe leadership
of Thad. Stevens and his lieutenants. They
will thereby the more clearly understand the
purposes of these men, and be the more able
to oppose them successfully.
That tbey may do this, we publish in an-
other column an editorial from the Chicago
Republican, which, in our opinion, expresses
very fairly the fellings and opinions of a vast
majority of the Republican party.
It is useless to say tbat these men are
madmen or fanatics. They are none the less in
possession of the Capitol of the United States
and of every Northern State, and control,
without dispute, the legislation of tbe coun-
try. This is tbe great and all important
fact; a fact which ought not to exist, and
which would never have existed but for the
timidity and vacillation and procrastination
of the President. Six months ago he was
master of the situation. Now Stevens is;
and rules the Congress as despotically as did
Mirabeau and Robespierre the French Assem-
blies. That this has all resulted from ](r.
Jonnson's hesitation to do his duty in pres-
ence of the threats of these Radical dema-
gogues is now apparent, but for all this it is
none the less true; and to-day he stands in
the face of the nation, deprived by .Congress
of the legitimate influence of bis high office,
shorn of its prerogatives, defied by each of
tbe co-ordinate departments of the Qovern
ment, derided, insulted and spit upon by the
Radical conspirators, and powerless to pro-
tect either himself or tbe ConatitotioQ.-.JV.
T. News,
Onr Underestimate of Foreign
Governments.
American politicians in their pub-
lic speeches are much given to un-
derestimate foreign governments, not
only as to their strength, but in re-
gard to their practical operation in
reference to those great ends of gov-
ernment—protection and justice.
This is, in general, the case, in con-
sequence of the ignorance and want
of breadth of view of the class.
Sectionalism, which is the result of
a still greater ignorace and of a
more contracted narrowness has been
the bane of the mass of the politi-
cians of the South. It was a po-
tent and proximate cause of the re-
bellion. Men who have not patriot-
ism enough in their nature to take
in the whole country, as a matter of
course cannot be expected to be lib*
eral enough to judge correctly of the
good qualities of other governments
of which they know nothing but
their names, and perhaps, their lo-
calities. One remarkable illustration
of their ignorance and of the ignor-
ance of our people at large as to
such matters at once presents itself
to every cultivated mind. There
are scarcely any Dutch, (i. e. Hol-
landers,) in Texas, yet every Ger-
man, Norwegian and Swede is com-
monly spoken of as a Dutchman.
The only reason that can be given
for this pervasive blunder, is ignor-
ance. A man who knows better
would no more speak of a German
as a Dutchman than he would of an
Englishman. Indeed, as a general
thing it* would be nearer the truth to
apply that word to an Englishman
han to a German, for as very many
if the English are of Saxon descent
ey may have more Dutch blood in
eir veins than the Germans.
Regarding protection and justice
the chief objects of government,
ut few foreign governments when
compared with our own, can be look-
ed down upon by us and treated with
contempt. The protection of the
lives of its people is the highest duty
of a government. Apply the test
to ourselves. Compare our own with
any other of the old governments of
Europe and see whether life is the
better protected in the United States
or in them. From the statistics in
print the comparison would not be
to our advantage. Do the same in
regard to the administration of jus-
tice between man and man, and the
conclusion at which we must arrive
will be by no means flattering to our
pride. Beyond all question, life is
better protected and justice accord-
ing to law more uniformly adminis-
tered in every one* of the great pow-
of the Old World than it is in the
New. True, we have a greater
amount of personal liberty and are
#not taxed to support a costly govern-
ment encumbered with an expensive
and useless feudal aristocracy, but
as regards protection to life and
cheapness, despatch and certainty in
the administration of justice, we can
claim no superiority. v
Proceed a step father and compare
the government of the late insurgent
States with the government of the
loyal States in regard to protection
and justice, and it will be seen that
here again we can claim no superior-
ity. Practically in Texas, the law
affords no protection to human life.
Since our State was organized,
twenty years ago, there have occur-
red not less, on an average, than
three homicides per annum in
every organized county, and yet not
more than one or two white men have
been executed in accordance with
law for the crime of murder. Such
juries as are selected to try capital
cases appear to have a most unchiv-
ty injured as near as may be in the Grand Rumpai
condition in which he was before he , . fcedrin,! ^
was wronged and at the cost of p ]-!*j ^n*t«d
the wrong-doer, never seems to have
; or the Rétl?
presented itself to the minds of the ; ^ 6
legislators of-Texas. Yet our stat- sides, by the" withd
ute books are filled with speculative ¡ candidates. At firsr**1 c
charters and special grants which on the rads had all the ho'1
investigation can be shown to be as S1°n 5 but soon the diseased
indefensible in morals as they are i ÍCjudiciU^ and *31
under the Constitution when rightly . outpost at whose °E ^
interpreted. A litigant who has to Attorney General's0"?*
resort to our courts, on a little inqui-, respectable and learned ¿ \
ry, finds that he must encounter a county, wis suog-^SI
tedious and unnecessary delay; and j '^1
the party ascertained to be in the
ight learns to his sorrow that lie j vine item, having, f<£T11
- "<>Ui
^graph;
can get but partial justice, for the
actual costs of the litigation are in
no case in a civil suit put upon the
wrong-doer.
A Stalute Wanted.
To the great reproach of the
State of Texas there is not to be
found on her Statute Book a Bas-
tardly Act compelling fathers of il-
legitimate offspring to pay for their
rearing and education. As matters
stand, the erring mothers of such
children who in nearly every in-
stance are more sinned against than
sinning, have to support their off-
spring and themselves without any
legal mode of enforcing assistance
from the 'fathers who in general,
in violation of the law of nature,
leave them to shift for themselves.
This is unjust. When we shall have
become more civilized, a new statute,
which has long been badly wanted,
will be passed to remedy the injust-
ice. When such a statute is passed,
if it be drafted with a view to do the
most good, it will not only provide
that those who are the fathers of
white illegitimates shall pay the cost
of their rearing and education, ac-
cording to their condition in life, but
that those (generally high-toned
" conservatives ") who are the fa-
thers of miscegens, or offspring of a
mixed race, shall pay double, the
one half of the sum paid to be ap-
plied to the benefit of the pauper
children of the county. Those who
practice negro equality in the way
of licentiousness, should pay extra
for their combined profligacy and
miscegenation.
The Houston Telegraph refuses to
support Judge Smith for the Su-
preme Court and denounces him for
his union speech in the Convention.
The Telegraph should be impartial.
The "conservative" candidate for
Lt. Gov., Col, Jones, made a speech
much more obnoxious to the seces-
sionists than that- of Judge Smith,
and Col. Jones' speech was more
deliberate and studied, as he had
written it out and read it to the
Convention. He charged that there
were two well organized parties in
that body, with their principles as
clearly defined as they were in 1860
-1, the one the Union party and the
other the secession party. Judge
Hancock, also, in the debate on the
repeal of the pretended act of se-
cession, denounced the majority of
the Convention as acting with Sum-
ner and Stevens, and contending for
the same principles of those radicals
in refusing to declare the so-called
ordinance of secession null and void
from the beginning. And the Judge
was moreover, like Gov. Hamilton,
a refugee, and received fromj Presi-
dent Lincoln a provisional commis-
sion as Brigadier General in the U.
S. Army. Why does not the Tele-
graph denounce these gentlemen
alfco ? Or is it reserving its fire for
the future, when Judge Hancock
may aspire to the U. S. Senate ?
We will here make a prediction.
Should the secessionists succeed in
alric sympathy for the living, to present contest, no one who was
regard the slain as invariably in the j not an original secessionist will be
wrong, and to decide on some other i elected to the U. S. Senate. Col.
ground than the facts proven and Í Jones and Judge Hancock will be
the law as applied by the courts.1 made to walk a plank just as Judge
Smith has been made to do in his
little effort for the Supreme Bench.
As regards justice between man and
man we are in a very abject condi-
tion indeed. A stay «law is inde-
fensible under our Constitution and
in morals. It is a law that impairs
the obligation of contracts. Mr.
Sedgwich has demonstrated that.
:*o respectable writer on ethics justi-
fies^ or even excuses such a law.
Then we have our homestead and
other exemptions which
Judge Hancock will find that his old
political motto, a little «hanged, will
be enforced. " Put none but seces-
sionists on guard."
The Trial.—Mr. Davis is indict-
ed under the act of 1790, under
which the penalty, of conviction, is
death. He cotild have been indicted
under the act of July 31, 1861, for
^ , , . operates a se(jiti0ug conspiracy, the punish-
stay-law exists, and by; nient 0f which is fine, not over five
means of which a richer debtor can thousand dollars, and imprisonment,
defy a poorer creditor. ' i with or without labor, not over six
The morale of our statute book is years. Under the act of June 17,
bad. We are afflicted by orerleeis- 1,8fi2' 00 Per8on ¡9 .allowed j° sit on
! .• \ ® the jury who was m any degree of
• • m are inexcusable complicity with the rebellion. This
omissions. The great principle that insures that the trial shall be before a
the law ought to reinstate every par-, loyal jury.—National intelligencer.
thrown out a hint That ti
was not strong at thj, ¡jf*
own district—a 1
nothing about—tl*L
; in favor of a gemle®¿ ür í ^
who had been warmlv
&ud who, it was tho¿k¡a¡niei
the bill." But ^
•' Many a rose is born to bltst
Aud waste its weetnesj0c.^ i
and it happened that a i*1'*
within the precincts of^
capital, was discovered^]
be in the that peculiar
so they manfully
found out a secretary
nominators, located him ii *"
and he bravely suggested ^r
ado Major's name, as a fit ^
er successor to the deci y
bottom guard. On that fol
Telegraph spoke; but its J
the Star, had put the Hont^y
the post, and the GalvestotU
did the same; so it was two ¿
the Telegraph and the 5^
the Star and the Ne*í. flJ
battle will terminate _
but one thing we know—¿ere!
row; this is no time to squibbfcl
seats; there are men goingtvX
the radical ticket who arenotJrfl
ed of; they will do it inverydes
ation, because it looks like the
way to settlement of political,
tions. These men must bt
whelmed—swallowed up in the
united vote to be cast for a 1
set of candidates. Let dir
arise, and Texas will be disgn
the blood of her sons will have
poured out in vain; ay, the 1
sacrifice denounced and conto
Texans are not surely prepaw
that. Let the friends ofbotkp
men, who have been so active it
ing them forward, be as actireit
ing them back; get up rqaea
withdraw, and throw Many, ors
other man, on whom i3«$111
into the breach, and"ásv
will be the v&tehwans joyfi1
As to the judgeship, we area
one at least of the radicals ii3r
there is too much sectionalism:
State for unity on that snbjer.
there be five judges to elect. 1
are at least fifteen candidates:
can look for harmony or sues
such a crisis ?—Htm.
Live for a " Purpose."-!
success—the joy of life's ripe tf
the goal of our human hopes
wise or thoughtful man will liven
ly for to-day. The pflgra
seeks a home is not content MB
and loiter for the mere flowen
side his way. Tbe sow loots
fields white and ready fot the sic
Wisdom has regard to the f
issue. The triumph or thecal
of to-day is transitory.
hope that does not sink with .-c
ting sun. The true success it2
that which does not fail the frS
of our days, or féave them *' *
or barrenness. We wan' ^!,s
of " harvest home, that *
into silence with the fainting^
but make the passage °f
whispering gallery where bw
earth talked together. •
something that will re4™,
time—beyond the thingsi 0.-~
seijt—something that *i"ll£
on eternity.
Good HuMOR.-Good
the clear blue skv °*" e";¡¡,
which every star of talen- •
more clearíy, aud the s*
encounter no vapors
It is the most exquisite ■
fine face—a redeeming f
homely one. It's ^ .
the landscape--har^D
every color, mellowing1 e
the bright, and softening ^
the dark, or, like a u
concert of instrument?- 3 -
at first discovered by 1'
filling up the breaks 'n
with its soft melody-^
Alexander Hamilton-^'
called " the greatest 0 1 ^
cans," said, "Not 0.1.T ®
but the independence an
a country appear to .
connected with the p
manufactures. Every .
a view to these great 0 J
to endeavor to posses . ^
all the essentials of natl
These comprise the ..
ence, clothing and defend
A Curious Acci £-nt-
- the ot
/ kiued her
by pressing its"
of herd
sticking,
mingham, England,
woman accidentally fcJu. .y
s head aga,D!t¿
of her dress, in which a
The needle fM
child's
juries.
head,
ca
used
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