The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1859 Page: 1 of 4
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^ ' fail# daoght«r% '
B*«k hemallftliy «nilwagain,
Or Colonáo'i rippling waters,
Whsf* first Í teamed to loTe.-
i nr youthful soul rarcted in bins,
'**" ' with some dark-eyed maid,
Withtbé vnlley* flagrant zephyrs to kiss
Mj ysnf brow as I murmured words of love.
IfOwvr
little hand was claspcd in mine,
I wooM paaaia Wisf such leisure hours;
And reeWre at parting a delicious
Spell bound upon
some rosy lips,
) my ear would sound
er of the cooing dove.
Peccinber.4, lfi^
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While the
Like
Letter froi
Of the Citizen.]
p, Texas, Deo. 11,1859.
m the Kio Grande, and
Oortiaas grand, and grand doings therea-
way, is to Of* 30th nit* which you will
have reoeived before this, and if the mails
get frosenoa th$ way, like the tunes in
Munchausen's hortf, then this indictment
will bS/8B old tune. But I have nothing
fash or startling, and only take the pen to
movement of troops.
artillery reported
oil the 24th instant,
)w& to Brownsville,
rril on the Nueces,
a plaseabont forty miles from here, and
Vtffcrabe their steps two hun-
dred miles across the desert to Browns-
movement is of
rest. They will ar-
himself on those whom he had a spite art,
and flourishing better than he expected, it
has induced him to'enlarge his opeiations
and extend the sphere of his undertaking,
to that now, accdfcBng to his proclamation,
he is going to extermWte the Anglo-
Saxon raoe—a considerable exploit, if he
succeeds ! The motive of his men is to
kill all the white men they can. The
sympathy of all the Mexicans, or rather
greaser residents of Texás, on the Rio.
Grande, is with the movement; and the
Brownsvillians are anxious to conciliate
them. It is not easy fc aay,ew ia~fóake
sufficient allowance for the toadyism to
Greasers which the complexion of politics
has induced in the last few years.
Ford swears that he will put Browns*
ville nnder martial lav? if it does not be-
have better when he arrives. We will see.
Dr. Cameron, Judge Watrous' partner,
has been arrested purchasing supplies in
Brownsville for Cortinas' hospital.
We have heard a rumor that Tobin's
men had refused to serve under him. I
do not credit it; but the mortification of
the men is extreme. The weather has
been terrible, and there has been suffering
among (¡he men in the field. The ther-
mometer here was as low as 14° Farenheit.
M. M. K.
rhe returned, oiré
back to-day on the'
ú Tfíis method of going
. It is eheaper
tío lie su re
they-bare to hones wbeñthoy arrive; but
they all sajr that hoqfs marched across
the plains at this time wilt arrive unfit for
aanfc<aft<l it b imponible to recruit them
Cortinas' foroe had greatly increased
•laa hia victory. The American treops
there and on the way, regulars and volun-
teers, all told, so for as heard from, amount
to afcaaft three hundred. There will not
or
tlx Weeks to
by water,'go at
not sending
any that way* although it is the cheapest.
The/ ara going toase ir out. All the rol-
anjceia are loud in their denunciations of
Brownsville. They ware Bot famished a
to eat—on the contrary, they
tlnigiul norhitaat prices for pro-
obtained supplies,
>, ée., from Brownsville / I
It lattttittai Mexicans were allowed to
inanition, provisions, &c
and take them over to
—•from there, of course, ss
to Cortinas as he wffnted.
The men who go out now will be better
fritt be there with au-
State. There
will Mt be io naah confusion as before;
an| at severa! old captains have gone out,
it will he jomethwg done
hat is, if enongb volunteers go;
ul whether either the State
of Government will eon sent to
lMirt a ^Greasy"—their votes are too
Everybody ft asking what all this " fuss"
it ¿boat and nobody can answer. Guess
whatyoa will, there is setae plaitffact to
guen is wrong. It is a
that Cortinas is set on to
.«Jasar- aa¿ get a crowd out there,
who, when they are assembled, are to be
Indwasd to go filibustering, But the vol-
ant#** were received with^he cold shoul-
der* and everything done to drive them
If I eould form any opinion from
tome liitto knowledge of Mexican charac-
ter find tíie men engaged in this, it would
1)0 that Cortina| commenced to revenge
The Drummohd Light Eclipsed.—A
Dr. George H. Smith has perfected a new
light, resulting from barning carburetted
hydrogen gas with a certain proportion of
oxygen, by throwing tiny jets upon a ra-
diator in the burner, that surpasses in
power any light ever created. The Ro-
chester (New York) jDemocrat gives tbe
following notice ^>f its late trial on the
New York Central Road: '
. The track was perfectly visible from the
machine for a distance of from twelve to
fifteen hundred feet, • so- that the slightest
bstruction could readily hava Iwn. difc. .
Who airé the' Traitors ?
John Brown has been hung for ticason,
and justly hung. He Came out in open
defiance of law, and labored., to subvert
Government and create civil war. -He
was also guilty of murder. But the hang-
man has not yet got his just dues. Let
the Southern citizens read tbe following,
and say if the Union is yet saved. We
give quotations from the written words of
several Of the leading Black Republicans*
If the inciter to treason is equally guilty
with the traitor, and if the open advooate
of a murder justly centers suspicion on
himself of being accessory of the criminal
then do all thesejnen stand convicted • be-
fore the country of crimes as black as
ever tho heart of John Brown conceived.
Read:—Houston Telegraph.
" There is a higher law than the Con-
stitution which legulates our authority
over the domain. Slavery must be abol-
ished, and we must do it."—William H.
Seward.
" The time is fast approaching when the
cry will become too overpowering to resist.
Rather than tolerate national slavery as it
now; exists, let the Union b© dissolved at
once, and then the sin of slavery will rest
where it belongs."—New York Tribune.
"Th¡3 Union is a-lie. The American
Union is an imposture, a covenant with
death and an agreement with hell. "We
are for its overthrow I Up with the flag
of disunion, that we may have a free and
glorious republic of oar own."—William
Zloyd Garrison.
" I look forward to the day when there
shall be a servile insurrection in the South;
when the black man, armed with British
bayonets and led on by British officers,
shall assert his freedom, and wage a war
of extermination agaiiist his master. And
though we may not mock at their calamity,
nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet we
will hail it as the dawn of a political mil-
lennium."—Joshua R. Giddings.
u Iñ the alternative boing presented of
of straight road the locomotive was bro't
to a stop, and tfyef party alighted to go
ahead,, in order to ascertain the effect upon
aft observer. Looking at the light from a
distaooe of fifteen hundred feet, the eye is
unable to endure its brilliancy more than
an instant, and from a distance of a thou-
sand feet, it cannot be steadily observed at
all. ít was found that a man w:tR optics
of ordinary power could, solely by the
light reflected from the lamp, readily read
a newspaper printed in type like th^t in
which this article is set, a full quarter of a
mile from the locomotive! This ssems
incredible, but it is literally true. The
distance was carefully measured off by a
professional engineer who was in tbe
party.
Memphis, El Paso akd Pacific Rail-
road.—-The M., E. P. <fe P. R. R. Co., on
the 17th inst. contracted for the equip-
ment of fifty miles of its road—the first
section Of twenty five miles to be comple-
ted, ready for railing stock, by the 15tn of
July, 1860, and the second section of
twenty-five miles to be completed in like
msnner by the 15th of July, 1861; the
first section at a cost of $8,500 per mile,
$6,000 per mile to be paid by the State,
and the balance of the $8,000 to be paid
in the Company's notes, due six, twelve
and eighteen months, with the privilege to
the contractor of accepting land certifi-
cates at seventy five cents per acre in pay-
ment ; and like payment for second section.
No payment to be made ty the Company
till twenty-five miles are ready for the roll-
ing stock. Tbos. C. Bates, of Rochester,
New York, is the contractor. He is an
experienced and successful railroad con-
tractor. He constructed eighty miles
of the New Orleans and Opelousas Rail-
road, ninety miles of the New Orleans and
Jackson Railroad, and the most difficult
section of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, including the tunnel; and has
constructed several* roads in the North-
Western States.
The Agricultural Bureau of the United
States Patent Office have received intelli-
gence of the shipment from Havre, France,
of a large swarm of Lombardy bees. They
are of a larger size than the ordinary bee,
and, having a longer bill, are able to suck
flowers inaccessible to the American bee.
The prodfldt of an old hive of these bees is
sometimes one hundred and fifty pounds
of honey in one season 1 These bees will
not be distributed until 1801, by which
time it will be expected to rear from the
swarm now in transitu stock enough for
six hundred hives. _
Dogs are said to speak with their tails.
Then, may iwt a dog with a short tail be
called a stump orator ?
There are six thousand dentists now
practicing in the United State
tretcTr óf the" Union , we are for
we care not how quick it comes."—Rufus
P¿ Spaulding.
" The fugitive slave act is filled with
horrór—-we are bound to disobey this act."
Charles Sumner.
" The Advertiser has no hesitancy in
saying that it does hot hold to the laithful
observance of the fugitive slave law of
l850."r—Portland Advertiser.
u I have nó doubt but the free and slave
States ought to b^ separated. * * The
Union is not worth supporting in connec-
tion with the South."—Horace Greeley.
" The times demand, and we mu9t have¿
an anti-slavery Constitution and an anti-
slavery God."—Anton P. Burlingame.
"There is merit in the Republioan party,
however organized. It is this: It is the
first sectional party ever organized in this
country. * * It is not national, it is
sectional. It is the ftortb arrayed against
the South. * * The first crack in the
iceberg is visible; you will yet hear it go
with a crack through the center,"— Wen-
dell Phillips.
"The cure for slavery prescribed by
Redpath is the only infallible remedy, and
men must foment insurrection among the
slaves, in order to cure the evils. It can
never be done by concessions and com-
promises. It is a great evil, and must be
extinguished by still greater ones. It is
positive and imperious in its approaches,
and must be overcome with equally posi-
tive forces. You must commit an assault
to arrest a burglar, and slavery is not ar-
rested without the violation of law and
the cry of fire."—Independent Democrat,
leading Republican paper in N. H.
" ? .mo.r® ^ian agree with the disunion
abolitionists. They are in favor of a free
Northern Republic. So am I; but as to
boundary lines we differ. While they
would fix the Southern boundary at tho
dividing line between Ohio and Kentucky,
Virginia and tho Keyslono State, I would
wash it with the warm waters of the Gulf
of Mexico. But what shall we do with
the slaves? Mako free men of them!
'And with theslaveholding class ?' Abol-
ish them! And with the Legrees of the
tbe plantation ? Annihilate them—drive
them into the sea as Christ once drove the
swine, or chase them into the dismal
swamps and black morasses of tho South !
Anywhere, anywhere out of the world ! "
Redpath, correspondent of the New York
Tribune during the Fremont campaign;
and author of " The Roving Editor ; or,
Talk with Slaves in Southern States"
O" The San Antonio Herald states that Jas.
Bsardall, convicted of murder, J. H. Brown, of
counterfeiting, and Victor Vidaurri, of horse-
stealing, oonfined in jail in that city, escaped on
the night of the 8th inst. A reward of Ave
hundred dollars is offered for their apprehension,
by the Sheriff of Bcxai county.
at* --yft
rliti
ltands~aj
lh a wealth
üemm'd witlvñowers oil
¡ the path that riiakes a circle
white sand around the lawriV
9w sweet timothy and clover, •
sy as a June day dawn.
aund its door pale'morning glories,
Fump-up-johnnics, dahlias, pinks,
Chester—concentrated beauties, (
r Married by a thousand links;
jjuinks of love, the works of nature's
Mystery of handicraft;
Links of glory, through which fairy
. Argosies of págame waft.
And the gate that swings before it,
And the fence as white as snow,
Stand on-variegated cushions,
Which the sun-ñre sets aglow,
Crownihg them with many colors —
Yellow, purple, green aud blue-
As if rainbows there had fallen,
Melted into rarest dew.
On its roots the greenest mosses,
Catch the shadows from the trees;
On its sides red lioney-sucldes
Make their curtesies to the'breeze;
And the ever-nervous willows,
Standing near the garden's'bound,
Throw a web of shade fantastic
On" the clover-matitled ground.
O'er the well an arch of grape-vines,
Formed with heaven's dircctcst care,
«Chains the shadows to the water,
Making cool the summer air;
Aud a tiny church, its steeple
Piercing through a bower of leaves,
Is a sure and sacred refuge
Whero the wren her carol weaves.
—2V. V. Sunday Times.
espe-
s its
i t is
sanction
Menage of Governor Wise. .
We have thought proper to make an
extract or two from Gov. Wise's Message,
to show the position he occupies towards
Übe-A%Ife
oníelí. '~T4:e^IMvernolrB of Georgia, Ala-
bama and South Carolina have expressed
similar sentiments. The Message is lopg,
elaborate,-aijd very decided in its tone aud
the positions which it takes r
" Sudden, surprising^ shocking as this
invasion has been, it is not more so than
the rapidity and rancor of the causes
.-j|SOCMJ|fliaSi(s of hatred to w
oáh-sfftve in.the United Statés;
not upon slavery elsewhere, or
holders in any other country,
eially malignant and vindictiyi
own country, for the very reaso
bound to them by tho fi
of a confederate law. To set up that
to it is to enrage it by the sight of thelawj
because it is hfttwifiljgi it " tv has been
táught by the Atheism of a "higher law"
than that of a regular government bound
by Constitutions and statutes. It has been
made to believe in the doctrino of absolute
individual rights, independent of all rela-
tions of man to man in a conventional and
social form; and that each man for himself
has the prerogative to set up his conscience,
his will and his judgment over and above
all legal enactmp.nts and social institutions.
It has beeu inflamed by prostituted teach-
ers and preachers and presses, to do and
dare any crime and its consequences which
may set up its individual supremacy over
law and order. It has been taught from
the Senate chamber to trust in the fatality
of an " irrepressible conflict," into which
it is bound to plunge. Its anti-Christ
pulpit has breathed naught but insurrec1
tionary wrath into servants against their
masters, and have denounced our national
Union as a covenant with death for recog-
nizing property in slaves, and guaranteeing
to it the protection of law. It has raised
contributions in churches to fbrnish arms
and money |o such Criminals as these, to
make war for empire of settlempnt in our
new Territories. It has trained them, on
the frontier, and there taught 'them lhe
skill of the Indian in savage warfare, and
then turned them back'upon the oldest and
largest slave-holding State to surpriáe one
of its strongholds. It has organized in
Canada and traversed and corresponded
thence to New Orleans, and from Boston
to Iowa. It has established spies every-
where, and ha9 secret agenta in the heart
of every slave State, and lias secret assó-
*nr? on<ÍB^¡
A«f A «* /L. rt O ( n t a f 4 ^ S1 — A5.. Í.1 . - - -
the present participators in its outrages,
Causo3 and influences lie behind it more
potent far than the little band of despera-
does who were sent ahead to kindle the
sparks of a geneial conflagration; and the
event, sad as it is, would deserve but little
comment, if the condign punishment of
the immediate perpetrators of the felonies
committed would for'the future secure the
peace which has been disturbed, aud guar-
antee the safety which it threatened. In-
deed, if the miserable convicts were the
only conspirators against our peace and
safety, we might have forgiven their of-
fences, and constrained them only by the
grace of pardon. But an entire social and
sectional sympathy has incited their crimes,
and now rises in rebellion and insurrection
to tho height of sustaining and justifying
their enormity.
u It would be pusillanimous to shut our
eyes and to affect not to see certain facts of
fearffcd import which stare us in the face,
and of which I must speak plainly to you,
with the firm and manly purpose of meet-
ing danger, and with oo weak and wicked
design of exciting agitation. That danger
exists, of serious magnitude, there can be
no doubt in the minds of the most calm
and reflecting, and the way to avert in all
cases is to march up to it and meet it front
to front. If it has not grown too great
already, it will retire from collision ; and
if it has grown strong enough already for
tho encounter, it had better bo met at
once, for it will not dimiuish by delay. I
believe, in truth, that the very policy of the
prime promoters of this apparently mad
movement is purely tentative : to try whe-
ther we will face the danger which is now
sealed in blood. ^ If we " take the dare,"
the aggression will become moro aud more
insolent; and if we do not, that it will
either truckle or meet us in open conflict
to be subdued ; and, iu either event, our
safety and the national peace will be best
secured by a direct settlement at once—the
sooner tho better.
" For a series of years social and sec-
tional diflerenco8 have been growing up,
unhappily, between tho States of our Union
and their people. An evil spirit of fanati-
cism has seized upon negro slavery as the
ono subject of social reform, aud tho ono
idea of its abolition has seemed to madden
whole masses of one entire section of our
country. It enters into their religion, their
education, their politics and pravers, into
their courts of justice, into their "business,
into their Legislatures, into all classes of
ae mi
sses and
ien am
It'i
cliildhoo'
hoáséé,
ildren,'of all _
ined three genera-* refere
in moral, gnd l!';
lsl
every free State. It enlists influence a
money at home and abroad. It has sent
comforters and counselors and sympathv,
and .would have sent rescue to these assas-
sins, robbers, murderers and traitors, whom
it sent to felons' graves. It has openly
and secretly threatened vengeance on the
execution of our laws. And since their
^«iso volimtaf i
Ü
uff|tr$Sme* action is tak
him. It tfill be seen
letter was also sent to
Intelligencer.
COPY OF THE LETTEEL
Ausfix, Texas, Dec. 4, 18£
The fyesufcn t cfii
SiBr-Having recently ofaerved, front
the papers which hate reached this distant"
region, that the discovery of the corree
pondence of John Brown has disclosed,mjr ^
former connection with him as Secretary i
of State, under the u Provisional Constittf-
t:on," adopted at Chatham, C. W., May
10,1858,1 have thought it my duty Jo
state to yon 1 hat, whilst I have had no
connection either with Brown or any ol >
his party since tho beginning of June,
1858, and no knowledge of the resuscita-
tion of the orgina'iott which died iont at
(the period of, and in consequence of my • >•
defection therefrom, aud although I, lifcfe,
since my return from Europe in Aprr! last) k
resided wholly in tho Southern Stales,; ,
acquitting myself as a law-abiding citizen,
I yet am perfectly willing, (by reason of
my conviction that the organization and
tbe insurrection were alike cruelly wicked)
to surrender myself either to the authori. =
ties of tbe United States, or "of the State
of Virginia, in order, if it be nece&ftry, to
suffer the penalty of my egregious folly .
I have, since the date of the inaurjee
tion, been once or twice dj§Sauded ^from
offering myself as a witness, On the groun& '' f' '
that the violated majesty of the law wai v - '
being amplv and fully vindicated.
By reason, however,, of . the recently
disclosed facf that the insurrection occurred
tinder the auspices of the "Provisional
Constitution," I have -determlé """"
count of the possibility thit my <
with "the'dissolved or|
g mmt •" - ~
violation, it has defiantly proclaimed aloud
which have prompted and put it in. motion., JLhat " insurrection is the lesson of the hour11
It is not confined to the parties who were •—cot of slaves only, but all are to be free
to rise up against fixed Government, and
no Government is to be allowed except
" theaterage common sense of the masses
and noT protection is to bo permitted against
that power."
After an elaborate discussion of the
whole subject, the following distinctive
positions are set forth in the latter part of
the Message:
"I repeat:
" 1st. Organize and arm.
" 2d. Demand of each State in the
Union what position she means to maintain
for the future in respect to slavery and the
provisions of the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and the provisions of
State laws for its protection in our Federal
relations; and be governed according to
the manner in which the demand shall be
answered. Let us defend our own position,
or yield it at once. Let us have action, and
not resolves—definitive settlement, and no
more temporizing the Constitution, and no
more compromise."
Prayers for tiiit President.—A prayer
for tbe President of the United States has
been introduced into the English Church
at Geneva, Switzerland. It seems that the
English chapel is tbe only Church in Ge-
neva in which service is conducted in the
English language. In this church, there-
fore, the resident Americans and Ameri-
can boys at the school in the city repair
for worship. An account states that the
pastor, Rev. Mh Dawnton, is appoiuted by
'he Bishop of London, and has always, in
the beautiful service of his church, prayed
for the reigning family of England, and
the public authorities of Switzerland. A
request was lately made to him by the
American Consul at Geneva, to include in
the prayers of the public service on the
Sabbath, the name of the President of the
United States of America. To this re-
quest Mr. Dawnton replied that he would
do so with great pleasure, if he conld get
the consent of th'e Bishop of London.
The enlightened and liberal prelate gave
his consent, and now, on every Sabbath, a
hearty " Ameu " goes up from many a
heart to the prayer for the President of
the United States of America!
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m
wr
'M
i- -ft
to expiate,, to the last degree, the conse-
quences of ray atrocious blunder. ~Foc
this reason : that, whereas, when an Abo-
litionisi, I would have died in defence of
my convictions, so, now, that, I aiS «ft Son*
thenef, I am also willing to die in proof of
the sincerity of my present principles. I¿
therefore, the etror of tbe past involve*
mo in present punishment, I am content to
redeem such error by suffering such
rshraect.
I reside in this city, from which I shall
not absent myself until you hatr
nicated your desires or decision in
matter. i
I have the honor to íemain, sir,
Your Exceller.cy'8 obi.
A verbatim copy óf the i
been mailed to Gov. Wise,
JOHN T. ALEXANDER.
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A Lusus Nature. — The Richmond
(Va.) Inquirer has the feUowipg:
A lusus naturae of an apple has been
sent us by a gentleman of Abingdon, Va„
just as it bad been plnfcked from the appia
tree in the garden of Mr. Jos. Canton, of
Washington county. It rtsembles a ta-
man face of the long kind, such as those
we see in pictures of " Old Brown.? Tha-
face thereon is a remarkable feattfte, friUl
eyes, Roman nose, mouth and flowing '
beard strangely marked thereon. We fre
assured by the sender that Nature alona
(so fruitful in her fancies) was the
artist that designed this htiman
apple. Whether the limb on which this
curiosity; grew was a grafting irom Hha
" tree of life," or of human nature, we cao.- ,
not determine.
A Goon Reason.—In the a
of post-masters for the State
one of the appointees décf
reasons set forth below :
Dear Sir : Although T acknowledge i
honor of my appointment^ I regret
say that I have yet an unexpired- tern* w
five years to serve in the Penitentiary,
which compels me to decline your flatter*
ing offer.
rj
afj
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bo°f
New Haven, Ct., triumphantly defeated
the Republican candidates for city oflices
last week, and by a handsome majority.
This has usually been a stronghold !>f the
Opposition,
Thert'u fn San Francisco a man of
considerable ability, named Norton, wb<
in 1850, was one of the wealthy men
California, but who ia now reduced la
poverty and insanity. Ilis hallucination
ia quite harmless, however and l«a*U him -
to imagine himself the Emperor 6f the
United States. Every few days he issues
a manifesto through the press, and tha
fact that none of t^em are heeded bv bis
subjects seems not to discourage him ia .
tho least. • •
u Be content with whai you have," _
the rat said to the trap when he saw thai
he had left ono half of his tail in it.
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J.D. Baker & Bros. The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1859, newspaper, December 22, 1859; Columbus, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177591/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.