The Semi-Weekly Star. (Washington, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 1850 Page: 2 of 4
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chives of our division : and will, in faiore. refer to
this day and vr>o, and quote froui these Üacred i ,
Pages: •• And the spirit and the bride say, Come. | m®y deem usetul or interesting,
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thxt is «'hirst Come ; and whosoever will, lei him i paper, and most earnestly solicit com-
from lime to lime, we design making
copious extracts, of such matters as we
And
ink* of the water* of life freely.*'
THE L.ONE STAR
W. B. M'LELAN, Esq of Lagrange, is an
authorized agent of the Lone Star.
We are authorized to.aniuMjuce ASA M.
LEWIS Esq asa candidate for the office of Al
torney General of the Slate>
We are authorized to announce JOSIAH F.
CROSBY Esq as a candidate for the office of 1 ,course
ibta'sS U""Uud,ei" D,i,"C1 °f pursued. Personalities of ail kiii.ThsTl
We are authorized to announce JOHN H- be excluded from our columns, And
•DAY «9 a candidate for the office of Sheriff oí beliéving as we do, that the welfare of
Washington county. ;he gtal0 ¡g enhanced by every public
We ere authorized to announce JOHN B.
munications upon those importan; mat-
ters, from all who may choose to favor
us with their views.
To those who may feel an interest in
the past history of our beautiful £iste,
we would promise, from time to time,
to regale litem with sugli iirterests in ihe
eventful chapter of the past, as we may
ibink interesting. And we would here
mention, that although not oue of the
Old Royal Threehundred,' we are nve-
ertheless, sufficiently ancient to have
seen many things, which may interest
our readers.
Jn our intercourse with corpse JSdi-
torial, we can give no better earnest of
what we will do, than is to be found in
which we have heretofore
work, which may be undertaken fine
carried out, we shall advocate interna
improvement in our State, irrespective
of localities.
We have adopted a semi-weekly is-
ue, at least until a new office, for which
the publisher is now absent in New
York, shall arrive. When it is our pur-
pose to discontinue our semLweekly,
and publish one among the largest sheets,
now published in the State. However,
should the requirements of our town,
demand a more frequent issue, we will
We -are authorized to announce JOHN B I still continue the Semi-Weekly Star in
DUPUY as a candidate for county Treasurer. connection with a weekly sheet. Jn the
We are authorised to announce Mr. JAMES | cage of ^ eVent, the price of our week.
NUNN as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of
Washington County.
We are authorized to anuounce DORSON D
CRUMPLER as a candidate for the office of
Clerk ol the District Court of Washington
County
We are authorized to announceSAM LUSK
as a candidate fur the office of Clerk of the
County Court of Washington county.
We are authorized to announce WILLIAM
NORRIS as a candidate for the office of Tax
Assessor and Collector of Washington Coun*
ty.
We are authorized to annuuee E. D. LITTE
as a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor and
Collector uf Washington county
ly wil^pe three dollars per annum in
advance, the semi-weekly four dollars.
But if we continue our present emission
JOHNSON, as a candidate for the office of Dis.
t-iict Clerk at the August election.
We are are authorized to annonnce A. J.
HAMILTON, asa candidate for the office of
HIG. I ?•%. «• «■'« «««•arrives' °°th-
GINS, tnepiesent incumbent, as a candidate for tng extra Will be charged.
the office of Chief Justice ol thecounty of Wash- To those who may patronise us, either
ington, at the August election. 4 by subscription, advertising or job print-
We are authorized to announce Hugh C. Mc . J r .
INTYRE, the present incumbent, as I candidate ,ng. can .oo1J P^mtse them in advance
Jbr the office of County Treasurer, at the August of our gratitude, our oest endeavors to
election. j meet their kind favors.
We are authorized tn announce Mr D. PAR-
KER, as a candidate for the office of County
Surveyor of Washinnlon county, at the August
■election.
TO OUR PATRONS.
With feelings of unfeigned gratitude,
vre acknowledge oiir many obligations
to those kind friends, who fijjfet reach'd to
ue the helping hand. jl) tkfe feeljkblUh-
inent of our liitiepaper at JBrenham, to
their aid and assistance, we are indebt
ed for-what of success that has so far. .. .
crowned our efforts, end it is with feel- f ,r "• ' ,har" a r le-
ing. nf poignant regret, that we have 1 ' A,°ta "<" Om«a-.he beimmnx and *
severed ourself from their opmmunity,
But. circumstances, which we-have been
led to view, as highly beneficial to us,
in a pecuniary manner, and a stern ne
oesity which compels us, to consult -that
interest, must furnish our excuse.
When we first conceived the idea of
establishing the Lone Star at Brenham,
we must confess, that it was with many I farced upon our determination. We
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.
The Compromise with Fbee Sch.ism —Tex-
as appears to be in a fair way to duplicate the
history of brave, but unhappy Poiand. To grat*
ify the rapacity, and subserve the interests of her
despotic neighbors : to preserve the ' balance of
power" io the cold-blooded touncils ofEtfrspean
a- 'me latter was ¿at up, ah(TfiórlÍoi$3 bm
between Russia. Prussia, and Austria ¡—and, for
similar pnrposes, the former appears to be in a
The
Alpha and Omega—the beginning and the end-
ing," of every proposition to settle the present
difficulty, is some dismemberment of our territo-
ry—some triple division of our peerless -empire,
which shall suit Freesoilism, on the one hand, and
the North and the South on the other. It is time,
high time,perhaps, that we shoad make op our
minds to some definite conrs'e^f action, upon
the important -questions, whio will soon be
ean the
misgivings as to its success. But 'the I surrender ©Tone moiety of our irrifory, and the
liberality of our-patrons, has long siace subdivision of the balauce into jballer states.—
more than renumerated us. By our re- At no time, since tho Declarafcn of slndepen-
mo val, we hope to be better able in fu- dence.has Texas been m so «• fiht a place," as
lure to merit a continuance of their pat** at this moment. -Still, strange «it may appear,
ronage. The -Star in its change agtocrilapnihy scenu 10 prfewlj and we are
places, will change -nothing but its-local* I folding our arms, and sleepini>ver a volcano
Hy and publisher. ^ which may explode, at any moint, andscattej
The same zeal which has heretofore
«narked its course, in the great «ause of
«lemosracy, shall continue unabated.—
The same abiding love, ofthe pure doc
trios of States' Jfights, shall stiU mark
its future pages, and the sane untiring,
invkoraté and all absorbing hostility to
free soilism ia the the South or West,
"will breathe through every line and eve-
ry number of its future issues. Believing as we do,
That it is the policy of Texas, to keep
undivided her territory, and to preserve I cai forTctio^ on our part,
unsullied from the grasping clutches of the Compromise Commute*
our best interest, and those -of cjposterity. to the
winds. Asa faithful sentinel,fcpon one of the
watch-towers of the country, ^ should be re-
creant to our duty, did we faillraise a warning
voice at this time of peril and (danger, and to
call upon the people I© shake I a fatal and de-
ceitful reposé, and to come uto toe rescue o'
their'rights and their liberties bw threatened by
enemies both from within andllhout!
The first question in the cafgae, which will
>e proposition of
the sale and sur«
iaries, on aline,
\ Grande, 20 miles
it on Red River*
kngitnde cresses it
38^, and tha
rth latitudes and
Northern fanatic a, the sovereignty of reader of ^ 8o|, abd aowtnly of two fifths of
•very inch of her fair domain, we shall OBf pre8entteiritt ryi and tf estahHshaient of
«ver be found in the ranks of those who
oppose a transfer, or division.
To the reader, seeking information in
relation to our S'.ate, its climate, soil
productions, either vegetable, animal
or mineral, we can say, that we have
secured the correspondence of gentlemen
in almost every section of the State,
whose personal knowledge of the eoun*
try of which they write, will enable them
to furuish information, not only essen
lially useful to the strangers and emi-
grant, but from the character of the au-
thor. such intelligence as may be im-
plicitly relied upon. Our determina-
tion being, to publish nothing in rela.
Uon to the production* or natural ad-
vantages of the State, but that for which
we ean vouch for fta veracity.
To the Agriculturas, Horticulturist,
or tho grower of fine stock, we would
aay, that our Exchange list will be well
supplied with all the leading periodi-
cals which treats npon those
tont subjects. That from thoae
our northern and western?
drawn from a point oa the
from El P«so, East to a
where the 100th parallel o
Tho former being a little
latter, in aboat 35° 50*
this, with the absolute cerfcty, that the termo-
ty so yielded, is to be, fortlithi erected into a
non slav >holding Slain oétttes. Accoráh^ to
an official estimate of dw °f 'his sec
lion, communicated to tSe\TI A ®,h Congressi
^.*7.120 "
by President Polk i it oon
of land. Bat u <h T«"
...a.,.. or asm *n
. . ... give360.300 iu are
M wP®írlP *"¡iSpro^Wkj rt. that lb.
oiIm a. the tree UIUW'UI than
section pro—
86,000,000
edmrai
res* The question present*
Urge territory, sufficient to
of the aggregate sise of Ohjp,
■ad Kentucky, may be viewed, ei-
questioaof dolUrs and cenls, osas a
ion of Southern policy, or a question pe-
rl/ of Stats policy. It suet, of coarse, be
considered in all these particulars, before a cor
rec*. determination can be formed; and the ad-
vantages and disadvantages to arise in all these
respects must be estimated, and the issua de-
cided according to the aggregate of good and
evil these may be found to contain. It is oUj.
present purpose, in this.number, to look at the
pecuniary interest involved, or, in other words,
to consider the question as one of $'s ¿Lets.—
At an other limp, we shall take occasion to treat
somewhat at large upon the qoeslionsof State
policy, and Southern policy, which, independen1
of mere pecuniary interests, are involved in tbi*
great issue about to be thrust npon us, under
the specious and deceitful name ol " Compro-
mise."
We have estimated the section to be sold, up.
on authentic data, at 86,000,000 of acres ; and,
-upposing six of these to have been disposed of
by the former governments of Spain and Mexi*
co,-it leaves, in round numbers, bO,000.000 o'
acres of unappropriated domain. At the United
Stales minimum government price, which is
$-1 25 per acre, this would amount to $100,000,,
000; and, allowing one-half for expenses or
survey and sale, it would leave a net amount of
$50,009.000. Taking however the price a*, which
Texas offers the land to her creditors, or fifty
cents, it would amount to $40,000,000- And-
supposing our public debt, both foreign and do-
mestic, to ne $I0,0C0,000, it would require only
twenty of those eig'v millions of acres to pay
this debt, and leave sixty millions of acres as the
unincumbered property of the State, worth, at
*5 same rate, $30,000,000.
,ijow for this immense territory, the mineral
resources af which are supposed to be ao valua
ble, what are we offered 1 Payment of our f r*
eign creditors to the exclusion of our domestic
ones. Payment to the greedy and remorseless
speculator, who has purchased our liabilities at
from 3 to 10 or Incents on the dollar—payment
to him atjpar \ while our citizens, who bore "the
burthern and the heat of the day," and the brunt
of war,-arelo remain unpaid for their services,
and for their property, which was either furn-
ished, taken or destroyed, in the struggle for In
dependence ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it no1
in the streets of Askelon !—but it is nevertheless
true—and if any one is so weak as to suppose
that the -government or people of Texas wil
eAer see a dollar of the " purchase money," pro.
posed to be given for this territory—should we
accept the proposal—he will find himself most
egregiously mistaken. No! the gentlemen are
in waiting in Philadelphia, NewYoik and Bos
ton—the " preferred creditors" of Texas— tlw
holders of her old red^baefcs, and § or 10 per cent
bonds, ''f >r the payment of vhich, her resource
were pledged." to " lick up" and absorb every
dollar offered to us, <bjr this Famous—or rather
infamous—Compromise Bill. The calculation
has been made, the amount held ic these Free-soi]
cities has been ascertained, and the sum to be
offered us for territory enough to make three
fiist*rate'sized "Free.soil States," will exactly
and nicely fit this amount! The balance over'
will not suffice to purchase "a nigger's supper*
To the proof, the law and the testimony.
• We[qnote from Mr. Clay's celebrated speech,
out of wfaich this so-called Compromise Proposi
tion has grown. After going into a long argument
*o prove ihat Texas has no tegal or just claim
even under the treaty of Annexation, to the ter-
ritory in question. Mr. Chw finds an excuse to
purchase it, in an «implied obligation on the part
of the United State* to pay that portion of the
public debt of Texas, for which " the revenue
arising from her customs" were pledged. This
was an ingenious device to fit the case of our
foreign creditors, to 'the exclusion of our domestic
ones. To pay the speculator and let the war>
worn veteran starve or beg! And, after propon-
ing to extend our boundary from the Nueces to
the Rio Grande, below the line of New Mexico,
Mr. Clay saysi
But, sir, that is not all we propose to give. —
The Second Resolution proposes to pay a ckk-
taut amount of the debt of Texas. Independent
of this most liberal and generous boundary, ten-
dered to Texas, we propose to offer by this se-
cond resolution a sum which the worthy sena-
tor from Texa , in my «ye, thinks will not be
'.ess than about three millions of dollars—the exact
amount neither he nor I yet possess the requisite
mateiials to ascertain. Well, you get this large
boundary and three millions of y oar debt
paid."
After an argument to explain his views upon
tae obligation of the United States to pay this
debt, Mr. Clay proceeds as follows)
_ " This m the foundation npon which I ar*
rived at tha conclusion embraced in that resolu-
tion. The United States having apptopriated to
herself, the duties arising from importa which
had been pledged to the creditors of Texas, as an
honorable and great power, ought -nsiw to pay the
debt, lor which those duties were solemnly pledg-
ed, by a power independent aad competent to
make Um pledge."
Here w« have a direct fore shadowing of a
parpóse whicw subsequent evento have more fully
developed* The km0unt fiXed is three millions
•Mellara, and ia the ore, definite sum ws have
yet seen named, by responsive authority, in con*
nezion with this Compromise. New-Papers,
indeed, have named five and seVen and a-half
millions as the amount which would be ¿Tared
but this, as yet, is mere rumor.
Tho neat thing in order^ and in our chain of
proof, is the report of the Committee of Thirteen
of ths Senate, or Mr. Foote • Compromise
Committee. This repeats and adopts the semi-
meats of Mr. Clay, in substance, as above cx>
prcsieu, ouiy tnat the sum proposed lu be otfcred
to Texas i« left a blank. l:ui the most pregnai t
circumstance is, that neatly oveiy dollar of ih¡
species of tbe debt proposed to lie paid, hts been
bought up, and is now owned by influential cape
taláis ai the North ; and that agents are now in
Texas, picking up what¡1.tile tr.fling amonnts
may be afl jal here. One of ihe conditions of ihe
Bill, constitutes the United Stale* ugent nf lhe*e
creditors, and their rlaims arrjirtl to be allowed
snd paid. Our own governmum has adopted a
scale ofequitable adjustment for.ihe payment of
those liabilities, and proposes to redeem them a1
the value for which they were issued ; and she
certainly never will and never onght to redeem
them at the value expressed on their face- But
will the United states pay any attentbn to thi*
scaling' of our debt! We say, No J It r true,
hey repudiated their revolutionary debt: bn*
ihey have a holy horror of repudiation in any
body else, and will not allow any thing that
should savor ol it, in the least, in their settle*
ment with the "preferred" creditors of Texas*—'
SOj according to the Hudibraetic rule, they
" Compound for sins ihey are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to !"
Anil thus, ata very cheap rate, will be ebte to sef
up a pretence to honesty and good faith, in pay.
ing a portion of the debt of Texas from the purse
of Texas!
There are many more prnoft which go to cor,
roborate the proofs which we have now given-
but it is unnecessary to name them, as the intel*
ligent reader will have already anticipated them*
We know not how these facts will strike others
but to us they certainly appear to afford " con.
firmation strong as proof ol Holy Writ'" of what
we have stated. We therefore condense the
pecuniary inducements held ont by our good
siep-moiher, the United States, into these plain
and simple term--:—A proposition, to sntisfy, at
par, the claims of (he foreign creditors oj 'Jtzas,
the/peculators in her debt. Jor the soil and sote
rcignity of enough of her territoiy to make three
Free-soil States, of the aggregate size of A'tto*
York, Ohio and Kentucky. VV e think there can
not be uuoubt how the people of this State wilt
respond to this offer. Lsau sold oul-*-under sim*
ilsr circumstances—bis birth-right for a mess of
potlage, but Texas will not.
At an early opportunity we shall- pursue this
subject farther,, and give onr views of the policy
of tins measure, in respeci to other interests of
Texas, and oi the South generally, as connected
with their domestic instutions. 1-f we are cor*
rect in the opinion we have lormed, it will not be
found more advantageous or desirable, viewed as
a question of Southern policy, than in the aspect
we have already presented it. " Compromise
and Ui'ien* are very specious words, but can be
much perverted'; and one mcf mean "robbery,"
and the other "oppression,*' according to tne
eircnmstances in which ihey are used¡ In their
just and fair interpretations, no one can be more
m favor of then than we are. We would con.
sent to almost any compromise, which would cer*
taiuly bring up present peace and ikture securi-
ty } and would cheerfully sacrifice every thing to
preserve the (Jniod except those sacred rights for
which the Union was established to maintain and
protect But we have no sympathy with the cola,
blooded wretch whe would first betray, and tben
seek to bide hi recreancy to Texas and ihe
Sooth, in a specions^ hypercitical bluster for—-
rrConipromise and theUnimi." If the Consti.
twtioHMS to be virtually destroyed—our liberties
cloven down, and our rights swept away by
brute majorities, we preler that the onslaught
upon these and us,, should be heralded to the
Soeih by «"Garter King at Arms," and the open*
mouibed trumpet, rather than by some drivell.
ing traitor, and the nasal twang of canting hy*
pocrwy. 11 we are destined to fall, we preler
sinking under the blows of open enemies to bee
ing undermined by the treachery of felon 'friends
or made the subject of carter and aale, by reck?
less aud aspiring demagogues!
The anniversary of St John Ou Baptist.—'This
celebration of their patron saint, by me Masonic
fraterni-tv of our Town and county, came off on •
■Monday lasr The weather with the exception of
the heat (it was intensly warmj was fine, ¿te
very early hour our streets were thronged, and'
long ere eleven o'clock, one of the largest as^-
semblages that had visited our town for'some
time had coHgrtgaled to wi'ness the I est. vi ties on
thia occasion. At ten o'clock the fraternity as-
sembled in their Hall, and accompanied by fine
music marched down Ferry 6treot to its junctioe-
with Preston thence ap Preston to Gay, thence
down Gajr st. to the Presbyterian Church,-
where- a large concourse of the beauty and fash*
ion af our place and county, had assembled for-
the purpose of hearing the oration. The lodge
was called to order by Henry R. Cartmelle Esq.
P.M. and a very appropriate petition to the
throne ef Grace was offered up by &ev. Mr.
John. Chaplain lo the Lodge ; after which the
band, as au interlude to the eeremoay,Mroek ep
a delightful air. When iheoiusic had ceased,
Mr. H- B. Hulbert, the talented superintendent
of the Washington Academy, addressed the as*
sembled multitude in a neat, chaste, and classic
discourse—much to the creditor the orator and
to the great satisfaction of the Audience. The
Hon. Wm. Scurry, being loudly called upon for,
an address yielded to the wishe* of his friends,
and in bis usual felicituous and able manner
entertained the assembly for a short time.
The cerimonies at the etureh being over, the
fraternity attended by their families, repaired lo
the grura.at the Academy, where ■ sumptuoue
o Pp.1 PrePared by that prince of culinesto A.
B. r leury Esq was spread before them. At an
early hour in tbe evening, the company disperse
ed. peace harmony and sociability having dehghtr
ed them throughout the entire day.,
At night, decorated by the fair hand
of beauty and reaplendenily illuminated
the .Academy was thrown open for the
votaries of the feir godess, Terpsichore,
and well might the maid of *the many
twinkliog feet* be proud of tbe meee of
beauty, lovelioess and fashion, which
assembled tn do homage at her shrine*
Comparisons, where each waa an em
bodiment of all that ia lovely atd fair,
would be invideousr W bee lock was
most beautifully represented in the fair
arson of the elegant and accompliabed
'in K« Independence loo, sent bev
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