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BAKEB. LAMBERT & PERKY
Intelligencer Office, Austin, Texas
A Haed Question .—If President Bu-
chanan were dow a resident citizen of
Texas, entitled to a vote at the August
election, which of the two would he vote
for H.R.Runnels, (whoseimpertinent
letters he scorns to answer,) or Gen
Sam Houston, who he says has given- a
cordial and unwavering support to his
administration ?
A New order of Knighthood.—The
chivalrous people of our frontier imita-
ting tbe usage of feudal times, in which
Tarious orders of knighthood were
created as marks of merit, such as
The Bath, The Golden Fleece, and The
darter, have created a new order, with
which they have invested Governor
Runnels, as a reward for his marked
attention to their region of the State,
lit trder of The Side saddle.
He is now the sole Knight of the
| order of the Side saddle. From a re-
cent move he has made he appears
' visions to have some of his political
friends to cam and share with him the
distinction.
No Escort Wanted.—It is to be hoped
that the Executive will be contcnt with
having made one job out of the troubles
on the frontier? Having unwarrantably
created a Board of Commissioners, he
done too much. He should not
: addle our almost exhausted Treasury
nth the additional expense of providing
I Hem with an escort. .
The frontier difficulties do not fur-
rish a pretext for oue, not to speak of |
two jobs.
Political services are not to be re-
warded by the creation of offices un-
known to tbe law, and of additional
expenditures not authorized by law to
aain the dignity of the offices so created.
•QU The gross and inexcusable neg-
lect of Runnels and Lubbock to submit
tbe Joint resolution fur the amendment^
of the constitution so as to provide for
the sale of tbe school lands, to the peo
pie, by proclamation, for at least three
months prior to the approaching elec-
tion, has afforded a stronger proof of
their incompetency than was ever be-
fore exhibited.
The action of the Legislature lias been
thwarted—the settlement of the coun-
ties in which these lands arc located
baa been retarded—tbe canse*oi educa-
tion has been set back, and our inter-
nal improvements are ke^t out of the
we of the money, by thek* neglect.
Who will dare to attempt to excuse
them before an outraged and indignant
.Me?
If even the organ is silent as to this
«barge, it will be apparent that their
omne is regarded as hopeless.
Inconsistency.—-The Galveston News
[ aákrs the assertion, that Gen. Houston
• yet is faovr of restoring the Mis
Mori Com promise. The News has no
I authority for this, nor is it true. Gen.
i Houston has religiously observed the
son-intervention principle ot the Kaüteas
bill—even voting for the English Bill,
*ben the News opposed it. Indeed, ill
remember correctly, tbe News sl-
ays opposed tbe Kansas Bill, and the
i intervention principle of the Dem-
tbst it had "sqatter
Troubles at tUe
. Agency.
Under the above head, we find in tbe
last number of the local Organ, that
Governor Runnels, since bis return
from his recent tonr, has appointed _
Board of Commissioners, consisting of
Messrs. George B Erath, John Henry
Brown, Richard Coke, J. M. Smith and
J. M. Steiner; "to go in person to tbe
scene of the present difficulties' at the
Lower Reservation, and reconcile, 'if
.possible, the conflicting elements of
disturbance, by effecting a settlement
which will put an end to the shedding
of blood, and secure a permanent peace
between the parties."
The announcement when divested of
its diplomatic and grandiose verbiage,"
amounts to this : ,
1. That Runnclsr though be found
time to go to the Houston Convention,
to New Orleans and to his plantation
in Bowie county, does not find time to
go to the frontier in person.
2. That not condescending to visit
the scene of bloodshed in person, he has
created a sort of embassy without auth-
ority of law, to the Indians and frontier
people, who, clothed with his preroga-
tive, are to effect a peace if they can.
3. That his absence from his post
when the emergency arose, not oqly
excuses him from a personal discharge
of his duty on his tardy return, but em-
powers him at this late period to make
the bloodshed and rapine committed on
the frontier the pretext for a political
job,* which he will expect the next
Legislature to pay for liberally, out of
the Treasury of the State.
Speaking in behalf of a frontier that
has in time of peace been visited by the
calamities incident to war, and of the
outraged people of Texas, we would be
recreaut to our duty, if we did not no-
tice both the inexcusable neglect and
the unwarrantable action of Governor
Runnels in terms of just condemnation.
Xs he is at last at his post, why
can't lie discharge his duty without the
intervention of Ambassadorial deputies?
Are the hardy settlers on the frontier
benejy.h his personal notice ? Is it not
enough for him to have suffered their
blood to flow, through his absence and
neglect, withont now insulting them by &
sho w of diplomacy ?
These are questions- which. i$ would
have been Well for him to have consid-
ered, before creating a new, useless
and expensive job.
Whether the Embassy will effect a
change in the political sentiments of the
people of the frontier, the coming elect ion
will show. Still,the fact that the Governor
feels that the days of bis official career
are speedily drawing to a close, is no
excuse fur a continuing neglect ot
duty, and for making it the pretext for
a new drain upon the already too much
exhausted Treasury of the State.
•It m supposed (bat the Runnels men on the
£oard alone will act. The other two wore
appointed to keep up a ebow of impartiality
and fairness.
If neither the State nor the
United States had any trustworthy
officers on the frontier; if there were no
reliable men settled in those counties;
and if the Governor were vested with a
prerogative empowering hint to nego
tiate with the people of Texas through
Ambassadors, there might be causo for
selecting these Ambassadors away
from the scene of disturbance and blood-
shed. Otherwise, such cause cannot
exist.
matters now stand, what greater
insult could be offered by the Executive
to the officers of the State and the
United States, and to the honest settlers
on the frontier, than b¡jr ignoring their
qualifications, services and responsibil-
ity, and sending a Board of Commis-
sioners from other counties to treat
with the people, or the Indians, or
both, in their vicinity ?
But we do not finí any authority,
constitutional or statutory, for the ex-
traordinary move made.
The Governor of Texas has no right
tc treat with any portion of the people
of this State, nor yet with the Indians.
The treaty making power relates to
nations, not States nor portions of
States, and is vested by the Constitu-
tion solely in the President and Senate
of the United States.
Nevertheless, Governor ¡Runnels has
usurped it.
him and the station be graces, he will
cfcuse stich action to be token as will
convince our Executive that séeéssioü
has not yet fcfén effected; and that the
powers of the Chief Magistrate of this
Union are «ot to be usurped with im-
punity.
While we have an abiding confidence
that President Buchanan, though op-
posed to secession and the slave trade,
will take such action as may be re-
quired (not through Ambassadors, but
through the officers of the Go vernmen t,)
to give peace to our suffering frontier,
we have likewise an unshaken confi-
dence in the people. The people of the
frontier are an industrious, adventurous
and brave people. Impelled by their
inherent energy of character to the
Border, they have made,*and will main-
tain, their homes there. Inured to the
use of arms, and familiar with peril,
when their country has called for their
services in the field, they, have never
been found wanting.
We know that there are fiery spirits
among their young men, who, like the
war horse in Job, "can snuff the battle
afar ofl," and to whom no music is so
pleasant as the martial clangor of war
-who are too quick to avenge an in-
sult. We regret that some of such may
have, in a moment of excitement, ut-
tered threats of personal violence against
the Governor.
The truly brave are ever generous
and forbearing. It is to be hoped that
as by these threats the Governor may
have been deterred from vjsiting the
frontier in person, they will sliow him
that his apprehensions .are groundless,
by acting upon the principle of inter-
national law, which he appears to deem
applicable to the case, which declares
that Ambassadors represent the person
of their Sovereign, and as such are not
only exempt from civil process, bnt also
from insult and violence.
" I No frore Shoots anvllades."
During the incubation of the Waco
Convention in 1857, a zealous partizan
correspondent of the State Gazette in a
letter to that.sulphuric journal, used
the following grandiloquent language,
under the inspiration awakened by the
nomination of the very distinguished H
R. Runnels :
" Bring out the big guns. Tell Schwartz and
Kirch berg to load theui op, id send forth some
Democratic thunder from .be Capitol, on the
event of this glorious newt!"
" The big guns" alluded to by the
facctious writer, were a stout anvil,
brought into requisition on occasions of
Democratic rejoicings, and fired off by
the enthusiastic Schwartz and Kirchbérg,
by way of heralding approaching tri-
umphs. The noise of this novel specios
of cannonading, the startling echoes of
which were heard rolling upon the trem-
bling air for miles around Austin, was
" the Democratic thhnder," so grateful
to the senses of the noisy clique, who
now insidiously seek to cruBh the hopes
of the patriot, by the overthrow of.the
greatest confederacy ever devised by
the consummate wisdom of sages.
But " a change has come over the
spirit'' of tbe Austin Clique. Runnels
has been re-nominated and not the fain-
test whisper is heard about "big guns"
and "Democratic thunder." The old
anvil occupies its accustomed place; but
Kirchberg disgusted with the insolent
dictation of a miserable faction, who
strive to disseminate their revolution-
ary doctrines among the free and intel-
ligent yeomanry of the conutry, and to
repress and keep down the spirit of en-
quiry and of truth, feelingly ejaculated,
" I no more shoots anvillades." You are
right, honest-old Kirch; and after the
ides of August, you may take our word
for it, that the Clique will " no more
shoot anvillades." Their " Democratic
thunder" will vanish into thin air.—
Their laurels degenerate into faded wil-
lows. Their Shanghai which crowed
too soon is dead.
" Perhaps Houston alluded to the fact in that
part of the letter which has been suppressed t
Quien Sabe *—Gazette.
The Public Printer is so used to see-
ing important proceedings of his Con-
ventions, accounts, and the nanus of
Delegates, and of counties, yeas and nays
in the journals, " suppressed," that lie
supposes all others capable of such
dodges. The letter has been read in
manuscript^ by many gentlemen, inclu-
ding some of the Gazette's friends.—
Not a word was omitted except what the people so as to prepare them lor re-
Sympathy.
Tbe Houston Telegraph is in distress
at the enormous extravagance of; the
Intelligencer. . The enlargement, tbe
semi-weekly publications—tlie wide cir
culation and the great amount of ori-
ginal^ reading matter, all cause him to
think that somebody's purse is suffering,
and he can hardly believe that it is the
Editor's money, which is being expend-
ed. He cannot see how a paper, not
sucking the public' teat, and being paid
upon the "thirty-twt for forty-four lines,
rule and figure work principle," can in-
cur such expense at tho seat of-Gov-
ernment. He hints that there must be
money some where, to carry it on ; and
falsely hé will have it, that we aré after
the public printing; because, as was said
by tbe Atlas of the clique, while John-
son of Cherokee was smothering the
bill, for abolishing the office of the Pub
lie Printer, " it, (the Public Printing) is
a good ¡thing, and the man who has
worked hard for the party ought to
have it."
But not so, dearly beloved friend of
nutmeg and school master memory.—
We urged the passage of Potter's Bill,
.which unanimously passed the Senate ;
and we intend that "within the three
first days of the session it shall be
passed, or the clique must work harder
than Johnson and his committee work-
ed to stave it off last session. John
Henry Brown, who can see '-^nvisibU
lines," and counts " two for onikby cus-
tom," favored the repeal, because of the
enormous expense. When Houston
shall be Governor, the tax-payers will
save $20,000 per annum, upon this-sin-
gle item ; and there will never be an
" intiiible line " paid for.
As to who supports the Intelligencer,
we tell the Telegraph, that the honest,
hard fisted, -reading, thinking, free yeo-
manry support it. Tho real " Rag, tag
and Bobtail howlers," as the Telegraph
the Gazette and the Seguin Mercury
call the working men, read >t, The
" Blubber Mouthed Dutch," as that pink
of " northern decency, with Southern
phelinks," the Clarksville Standard pub-
lishes, read it, and pay for it. The
great masses of the working men, " re-
duced to the level of the negro, because
they work in the field," as the Telegraph
persists in arguing, read and pay for
the Intelligencer. Freemen read and
circulate it. It never wis the favorite
of pot house politicians, because it was
never their slave.
Some such old Aristocrats aB .11. B.
Jarmon, and his richer brother, who
put the " Dutchmen around him, and his
negroes upon precisely the same foot-
ing," occasionally subsctibe for it; but
they soon find, that it is no food for
them ; and so they look out for a real
Simon Pure, " cheap nigger " re-open
the African slave trade, Higher Law
organ—one which can always swallow
the ticket, provided it p ys " tirty tou-
sand tollars " per annum.
We are thankful for the Telegraph's
sympathy ; but he need not alarm him-
self about our finances. We are inde-
pendent of the Treasury, and every
Treasury fed man in esse and in expec-
tancy in the State. In the press, as at
the bar, we have always found, that
even our adversaries, respect a bold and
manly defense of principles and expo-
sure of corruption. Neither tlte press,
the lawyer n^j" preacher, who does his
whole duty honestly, will ever want for
money. It is the hypocritical dough-
face, and the unscrupulous cheat, who
under God's jus tice, languish and perish,
or meet His judgments even in this
world. .
The Question Settled.—Warner, of
the Tyler Reporter, Writing to his pa-
per, from Henderson, gives a lively ac-
count of the speech of Judge Reagan,
at that place, on th'e 5th inst. He was
answered by F. F. Foscue of Cherokee,
and by M. D. Graham, our Attorney
General. Warner says of Graham :
1 have not time to give you an outline of his
speech—sufficit to say, that he stated that he
was no advocate of the Slave trade, although
he believed tbe prohibition of it to be uncon-
stitutional."
This opinion of the Governor's advi-
ser, sottles the question. The law is a
dead letter, Graham being judge; and
the contraband trade may now go qb.
These gentlemen are not agitating, not
they. They are simply indoctrinating
related to the sickness of tbe wife and
child, of Gen.'l Houston. And although
such affliction might have been gratify-
" " did not
pub-
sympathy
ststance.
ing to the Gazette's eliqne, wo
think it would, be important to
lia Gen.'l Hghstpn asks no sj
on ,the subject in terms not to
Will Richardson, Cushing & Co.,
be so good as to come out frankly and
acknowledge whether they do not doubt
tbe Demooraoy of President Buchanan,
he is for th¿ Union, and against
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FsBte*
the mm
"is s noirthínx pian ?
The Pressure of Public
meat. ^ Vk5:- - ^
>«Éhe pressure ofj*n enlightened public
iéffíiflscnt as brought to bear through
•ÍH5SB
The Llglc of the
OB to
>- Democracy.
The Galveston News, for a long time,
the columns of the Southern Intelligen-
cer, is producing marked effects. The
notorious incompetency of Runnels and
Lubbock has been commented upon,
and details of gross and inéxcusable i
official neglect have been laid before
the people. A storm of just indigna-
tion has burst forth, that has appalled
the sychophants of power and place.*
After attempting to hold out inconsist-
ent, paltry and futile excuses, they have
subsided into the silence of despair,
The Governor, finding his defence
abandoned by even those who have
profited most from the peculations
practised under his administration, has
been impelled by the existing pressure
to attempt to do something. Driven
by the desperation of the emergency to
act, he has acted—and he has as usual
done wrong.
He has turned his official neglects
and blunders into jobs.
The unauthorized Commission to the
Frontier has enabled him to lay the
foundation for a relief Bill for such of
his political friends as he has put upon
it, (who, it is presumed, alone will at-
tempt to act,) whether they succeed in
affecting the "vote of that region or not.
Whether he will make tbe Commis-
sion the pretext for a new job—the pro-
viding of an escort for the protection of
his commissioners, remains to be seen.
The publication of the proclamation
submitting the proposed amendment to
the Constitution when it was too late,
(the language of the Constitution is "at
I'jast three months" before the election,)
is contrary to the organic law. He had
no right or power to attempt to put
upon the Treasury the coBt of printing
':is too tardy proclamation in all tbe
papers in the State.
We trust the next Legislature will
do its duty and refuse to make an ap-
propriation to pay the advertising
bills ; and that no press in the
State will be bribed to support the
present Executive by the hope*of gain
from this pitiful job.
The public can now sec that when a
well meaning, though an imcompetent
and negligent man in high office is de-
nounced by an outraged constituency,
until abandoned by his leaders; he
conccives himself forced to act, and acts
in a panic ; that his acts are even worse
than his omissions.
ie Committee on Credentials, is
the man opon whom it fells. All' who know
>*P*triot, know him to beAfWB son#
peur, tans reproche. To thosé whó may not, we
will say that the list of counties referred to above,
gives simply the ceasties and delegates who re-
sponded to their names on-the opening ot tho
Convention. After that, and tetore Mr. Htock-
dale mada his report, the delegate who attived
reseated their credentials to his Committee.—
Fhat he reported therefore, was a true report-
Tbe new discovery thns ends in á ikáre's
What aextr-OjwtkV CkiJ, the '
J arm.
Well come to the book Stockdale,
and tell us what' counties or -meu net
published in the pamphlet, in truth sod
in fact did appear ? Name them. And
tell us why were the clérks so cárdtesa
particularly after, that Wally acéufata
man, Stewart, published the facts sad
figures just as we have them ?
We arc willing to lake your Wbrd
against the record, and the1 man Who
made it, and the paper which pnMiihed
it. But until you spéak we remain
skeptical. Prehaps the Chairman? of
the Central Committee coüld name ihs
counties and tbe " new ' men." And
may be he would be mora fortúnate than
in his statements about Whits Ms^et '
ick and Crosby. Speak Stockdale.
Hey Presto.—The orgau griuders
are of late days becoming as meek as a
shorn Cashmere and modest as the
young maiden, who for the first time in
her girlish career, listens to the matri-
monial proposal of -*some enamored
Lothario. Here in Austin, they have
ceased nominating aspirants for politi-
cal office. God bless their souls, they
only recommend. In 1857, however, then:
policy was a little different. They not
only nominated, but expected collar
wearers to "support the nominee whosv.
er he may be." By way of refreshing
proof of the assertion, we re-produce the
following extract from the State Gazette
of the 16th May 1857.
The Jumcial Convention.—Democracy
of the second Judicial Disti ict are fully alive to
the necessity ot the Lockhart Convention on
Monday next We learn that Spencer Ford,Esq.,
has withdrawn from the Cauvass. He cordially
sustains the Convention system '•and will sup-
fort the nominee whoever he may be." Tom,
tick, Judas Iscariót, or Paul, the Apostle, the
faithful Spencer will support without regard to
auy qualification, save the nomination. If this
is not exercising despotic control over the con-
sciences and suffrages of an intelligent people, in
God's holy name, telloW citizens, tell us what is?
sion that there íb a free soil, abolition
party in Texas. When it coule^ not
bring the Democracy to vote against
Buchanan and Breekenridge, because
the latter proclaimed, that " the Nation-'
al Democracy was neither a pro slavery
nor an anti-slavery party of propagand-
ists," the News was much disposed to
consign as all to Greelyism. So when
Runnels was nominated in I857^the
News began to cast about for the ele
moiit of opposition, and It found a " free
soil element" in Northern •Texas.—
Recently it has classified all who op-
pose a Southern-Bectional-re-open the
African-slave-trade disunion party, as
nothing but free soilers and Abolition-
ists. Under the pretence of a " Report
of Gun. Hamilton's speech from the
Intelligencer," the news gets off the
following specimen of logic :
" But again, he is reported to have said "that
through the acknowledged organ of the State
administration, the; had openly advocated the
^re-opening of the African slave trade ? that tbe
smaller organs and organ grinders had followed
suit and denounced our vhite laborers, as being
degraded to the condition of the negro." The
reporter for tho Iotelligencer then proceeds to
remark, "at ?this poíat, Gen. Hamilton affect-
ingly " (reader, don't you feel somewhat moist
about the eyes.) "recounted his own toil and
that of his father, children, friends and associ-
ates.J' Let us now, Ed . News, compositor,
devil, correspondent, all stop to take a big cry,
before we proceed with our comments."
To have been fair, the News ought
to have finished the quotation. " And
Gen. Hamilton gave the lie direct, to
the monstrous heresy, that Southern
whitetnen neither cau nor do work with
honor."
But from what is quoted the Northern
English born editors jump at the fol-
lowing conclusion: .
" But as we before remarked,' what is the
plain English of his preference lor white laborf
Is it not saying in no unmistakable language, at
least, in effect, that '*1 (Gen. H.) am opposed to
tbe institution of slavery as an abstract qnestion
—that the <Sonth would to-day have been in a
better condition, had tbe institution never ex-
isted." Entertaining such views, as a patriot
and statesman, if eleoted to Congress, he would
endeavor to engraft them upon tbe policy of tbe
country."
The meaning of all this is, that all,
Southern men who labor, or encourage
whites to labor, are therefore opposed
to slavery, and are Abolitionists.
This is the spirit of the Gonzales res-
olutions under which Gen. Waul acted
in the Houston Convention. No man
can now admit that he ever labored in
a Southern field, or that his father, son,
relative or friend, has toiled, without
being taunted with being degraded to
the level of the negro, and with being an
abolitionist, ready to crush out slavery.
The only wonder is that such wholesale
slanderers upon the South are permit-
ted to publish their sentiments. •
Such a reecho of Exeter Hallism, and
Sewardiam is far more dangerous to the
institution of slavery, than any thing
else which the Prince of Abolitionism
could preach. If the Prince of Beelze-
bub, had to invent'an argument, to des-
troy the South, it would be to teach that
labor by tbe freeman is degrading.
The Orgau Grinders becoming
Tender Footed. -
On Saturday afternoon, after the ad-
journment of the flaming Salamander
meeting, held at the Court House for
purposes of ratification and nomination^ abstractions of Gen. Waul,
we met some of the unadulterated co
ventionists, returning to their respect-
ive places of abode, after their patriot-
ic labors for the good of the country.—
To the firof gentleman, we encountered,
we submitted tbe following interrogato-
ry : "Whom dfd you nominate ?" To
Personal.—We bad the pleasure to shake
hands with Gov. Bunnels, who parsed through
Waco ou tbe 3rd iiist., en route for Austin. His
excelleucy is in fine spirits.*and we hope that
he will live in Austiu, at least two years longer
as the atmosphere seems to agree with him.—
Waco Southerner,
One would be próne to think, from
tho Governor's frequent absence, that
tbe atmosphere of Austin did not agree
with him so well, after all. The people,
at all events, do not seem inclined to
subject his Excellency's safety, to such
a trying ordeal, as two years continued
residence here.
" Tticj Intelligencer understands from
good authority that W. B. Scurry, is to take
the field as tbe mouth piece of H. E. Runnels.
We have only to say that it Gov. Runnels re-
lies 00 such mouth pieces to secure bis election,
bis prospects must he reduced to a " forlorn
hope," Bnt we have too much confidence in
the sound judgment of Governor R., to be-
lieve that he relies on auy one lor his re-elec-
tion, save the votes of the unwavering and un-
terrified democrats of tbe State."—Banger.
Don't, Lancaster, don't. Don't pub-
lish what yon once wrote yon covld
and would prove against the Boundary
Commissioner appointed by Governor
Runnels, and several others of the " or-
ganizers,
Parson. '
suffer this reproach.
this simple query, the party ^addressed
with a deprecatory air, replied : "We
only rec-
ti a lit
did not nominate any one,
ommended.". Thinking the
tie strange, considering the grandilo-
quent flourished of the oigan, about
Conventions, nominations, and all that,
we propounded the same interrogatory,
to another returning Salamander. "We
did not nominate any one," ib&id he, "we
only recommended old Rip foi Represen-
tative and Mr. Burleson for Floater."
How tender footed thought we, are
these organ grinders becomin
once. After having worn the te
until it has become perfectly
the reflecting ma&ses, on accountof the
venality and corruption of the ^arty
leaders, they now seek to saddle thé In-
dependent Democracy with the jm
unpopular designation.Now they
discovering the bad repute of party
nominations. Hence, they substitute
the less offensive term, recommend, in
lieu of nominate. "Verily; after a while,
if these complacent Salamanders con-
tinue to approximate to the usage of the
>t democratic party,'
with a litwe washing
The published
vntion give
We think bnl
counties re]
told-
et the committee report 66
n. «*• #
This opposition sheet then goes on to ¡ruina *
that there has been some trickery practiced, ft
would'onlyi bo necessary tb meet ttie jbbarve by
saying that Hon. F. S. Stockdale. of Calhoun.
Chairman of the Committee on ~ " "* -
Squaater
By private advice from Ar'Bonis, we (eroefva
tbe principal men in that Territory, have issued
a oall for a Convention to meet at Tnetoa on
the 27th of tmonth. (June) to organice a
government. If the politicians éiH not move
tbe people must—S. A. Herald.
Pitch into tbem Major. Here' is
a fight already mfade. Here are a
few thousand citizens of Jho United
States, whose love of gold, and lore of
liberty, have caused them to " go' wftb
their propertyand most of them with-
out any, upou Territory purchased With
the treasure of the United States.
Twice have they petitioned Congress
for a law authorizing the organization
of a common territorial government. But
because of tbe disunion tendencies of the
Austin treasury fed clique, and their
open and secret opposition toBuobahan's
administration, it became doubtful
whether their applicant tor the Govern-
orship, could get to nile otei these
squaater sovereigns, and therefore, they,'
the clique, wont to work and defeated
the organization of the Territory, for
how else could it have been defeat-
ad ? . But now these infernal squaater
sovereigns, without any " enabling,'
law," following the examble of Ken-
tucky, Michigan and California, are
ibout to " organi¿&," a government,
and they will be knocking for admission
into the Union, " with or without sla-
very, just as the people shall determiné
for themselves." Here is vpractrcal
issue Pitch into these arrogant squaat-
er sovereigns, aiwktfce administration
which allowfl jj* Tell them to wait un-
til the Gazette gives them leave. Con-
found this " squaater sovereignty," we
donjt believe iri it. But we prefer the
fight already made, to the nonsensical
Official Sympathy.
The thirty thousand Dollar per an-
num out of the Treasury, by the " in-
visible line, rule and figure work pro-
cess," central organ, is anxious to have
it understood, that be and bis real collar
" Convention for every office from Pres-
ident to Constable " organizers, have the
" sympathy," of F. M. White, while the
National Democratic, Buchanan suffra-
gans excite none of tiie bowels of com-
passion whatever of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office. Well Ma-
jor, Frank is a christian—a zealous
Methodist, and he dutifully feels sympa-
thy, yea, compassion, for men of falling
fortunes. And even when their own
misrule and misdeeds have brought up-
on them public fridignation, he natural-
ly says, " Press not too hard a falling
man, Tis virtue."
The Democracy, who support tbe
Houston ticket need no sympathy ; they
ask none.
We understand that Hamiltoa ]
connection with all political
politics is * dis-
ocies Houston's
me tor Governor, who thinks it no nod
for secession >f a Black Republican is
President.— Wmco Southerner.
respect, you are right, neigh'
bor. IF Hamilton was a disnniomst,
there would be no consistency in his
support of the Union lowing Hons too.
With such views,1iti oonid only battis
izamorta!
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