The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, June 5, 1871 Page: 2 of 4
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THE REPRESENTATIVE'
Richard Nelson,
Editor and Proprietor.
Labor Association.
Last Wednesday evening this
body assembled and appointed
delegates to the Houston con-
vention. We regret that so little
interest is taken in this great
movement. The purpose of the
meeting being of interest to all,
we justly had a right to expect
a full meeting. However, those
who did attend were of the most
intelligent of the membership,
and business was conducted in
harmony. Among the speakers
we observed Judge Dodge,, Gol.
Douglass, District Clerk, Reed,
Judge DeBruhl, County Agent,
Cuney, Mr. Horn and others who
instructed, entertained and
amused the audience. After
transacting the usual business of
the Association, the following
gentlemen were put in nomina-
tion and elected to represent this
county in the Labor Convention
to assemble in Houston 011 the
8th, iust. * '
N. W. Cuney, County Agent.
Thomas Brown, Bricklayer.
Judge Samuel Dodge, Farmer.
Moses Lewis, Barber.
Henry Ballinder, Plasterer.
Geo. P. Douglas Cl'k Cr'm'l C'rt.
John DeBruhl, J. P.
James Jackson, Carpenter.
W. E. Horn, Skilled Laborer.
Richard Nelson, Editor.
Johnson Reed, Clerk Dist. Court.
J. G. Nichols, Tinner.
L. W. Stevenson, At Large.
Ephram Jordan, Drayman
J. H.Jones, Porter.
Robert Mason, Hackdriver.
C. B. Sabine, Honorary Member.
Soloman Riley, General Laborer.
The following is the credential
given to 'each delegate to take
with him to the convention.
To All Whom These Pres-
ents Shall Come.
This is to certify that A. B.
was duly elected by the Union
Labor Association of Galveston,
County, on the 31st of May 1871,
as a Delegate to a State Labor
Union Convention, to be held at
Houston, June the 8th, A. D.,
1871, at 12 m.
John DeBruhl,
Pres. U. L. A. G. C.
Attest
Richard Nelson,
Secretary.
Work and Watch.
The Republican party must
look to its trusts and its duties-
The cause of freedom and the
rights of men are entrusted to our
keeping, and we will be held re-
sponsible to the future for neg-
lect of the great duties devolving
upou us. A large portion of us
were held in ignorance and slave-
ry till the Republican principles
triumphed and shattered our
chains and made us free men.
Let us cherish a sacred venera-
tion for the principles which
wrought out for us so great a
boon. We are now entrusted
with our own freedom of thought
and action and along with this
freedom comes corresponding
obligations and responsibilities.
It is our duty to learn and teach
our children what government is
aud what relation they will sus-
tain in a very short time to the
government which protects them
in the enjoyment of freedom.
There can be no freedom from
responsibility except in abject
slavery. He who would be1 free
must accept responsibilite&' We
call upon all those, to cast
aside the thought that we can
get along and hold positions free
from responsibility. The Repub-
lican doctrine of the day calls
upon us for its support and we
should lend it a ready support.
We are surrounded with enemies
and our very existence as a par-
ty is at stake. We need not ex-
pect to succeed on the ground
that the enemy is sleeping. He
is wide awake and watching ev-
ery step, aud every false one we
make will redound to his advan-
tage.
Work for the cause of all and
success ^ill crown our efforts.
No individual preference should
distract the harmony of the great
Republican party. Individual
opinions must give way to the
good of the general cause. It-
will not do to permit the Demo-
cracy to carry a victory. In the
Third District such a thing is
impossible, unless we foolishly
cast the chances against our-
selves, by internal dissension
and personal preference. No one
man has a right to thrust himself
upon the people against the
wishes of a majority of the party
to which he belongs. An honest
party man will always yield his
own preference for the good of
the cause and to the desire of a
majority fairly ascertained
We are presented with the plat-
form and champion of the Demo-
cracy ; let us prepare and enter
the field well armed and under
the lead of one who shall be able
to cary us to victory. Throw
away no chances, nor dream of
too easy a victory. Overweening
confidence betravs too often.
Prepare for a heavy contest and
thus secure an easy victory.
Come willingly to the rescue
and the victory is half way won
at the start if properly organized.
Remember the careless lose the
victory through carelessness.
Republican Meeting in Fort Bent
At a mass meeting of the Re-
publicans of Fort Bend county,
held at the "Burton" place, on
the 6th of May, Capt. John C.
Mitcliel was called to the Chair,
and Shade Croom Esquire, acting
Secretary. Upon motion of Mr.
Burton, the Chairman, in a brief
speech, explained the object of
the meeting to be, that the Re-
publicans of Fort Bend county
express their sense of the action
of the Legislature in the passage
of a land subsidizing the South
Pacific and South Transcontinen-
tal &c., and to appoint a county
executive committee and dele-
gates to the Houston Congres-
sional Convention. Upon mo-
tion, a committee was appointed
to draft resolutions and submit
names of suitable persons to act
as delegates to the convention.
The following names were re-
turned, to wit:
W. M. Burton, Charles Head,
Austin King, Jno. C. Mitchell,
Shade Croom, Reason Buchanan,
Jeff Benedic, Milton M'Ginins,
William Moore, Allen Scales,
Isham Hughes, J. C. Williams,
aud Thos. Mathews.
The committee, returned the
following preamble and resolu-
tions :
Whereas it has been made
known through the public prints
that the Legislature of our State
are about to pass a law subsid-
izing to the enormous amount of
six millions of dollars to the
Southern Pacific and Southern
Transcontinental Railroads, to
be collected by the tax gatherers
from the private funds of citizens
of our State, and emptied in the
coffers of said railroads. Or in
lieu thereof, upon a change of
our Constitution, to donate to
said private corporations almost
an untold number of acres of our
public domain, and this too while
the Treasury of our State is so
depleted that the current expen-
ses of the Government cannot
be met.
Therefore be it resolved,
First, That we, the Republi-
cans of Fort Bend county in
mass meeting assembled, to the
number of fifteen hundred voters,
do hereby make a most solemn
protest against the enactment of
said law, believing it unconstitu-
tional, unjust, unwise and very
oppressive.
Second, That in the event of
the final passage of said la w and
the intervention of his veto pow-
er by the Governor, we hereby
enjoin our Senator and three
Representatives, as a sacred du-
ty they owe to their constituents
and to the country, to support
our wise Governor in saving the
country from the entailable ruin-
uous consequences of the enact-
ment of said law.
Third, That should our said
Senator and three Representa-
tives fail or refuse to support the
Governor to defeat the said law
they are hereby requested to re-
sign seats in the Legislature and
come home.
Third, That we heartily sup-
port Governor Davis' administra-
tion, and that we recognize him
as the great leader of the Repub-
lican party of this State.
Fourth, That we are aware of
the importance of the coming
contest for the election of Con-
gressmen in this district, and
know the great necessity of har-
mony and action on the part of
the Houston convention, and to
that end say to our delegates
who go thereto harmonize upon
a man for our candidate who will
be acceptable in every sense to
the Republican party and least
objectionable to the country at
large.
Fifth, That the gentlemen
whose names have been returned
to this meeting are here'by de-
clared the county executive com-
mittee of the Republican party,
and that they are delegated
with authority to meet the Hous-
ton convention as delegates from
said county and to do and per-
form all and everything pertain-
ing to their positions as dele-
gates.
Sixth, That we obligate our-
selves to vote .for -eaiwlidate
of said convention and to exer-
cise all our influence for his elec-
tion.
Seventh, That the proceedings
of this meeting be published in
the Houston Union, State Jour-
nal and all Republican papers in
the State favoring these resolu-
tions.
The following resolufcfon was
read and unanimously adopted :
That Capt. John C. Mitchell and
J. C. Williams are indorsed by
this meeting as staunch and un-
flinching Republicans.
John C. Mitchell, Ch'ni.
Shade Croom, Sec'y.
Gen. O. O. Howard has written
a letter to the President on the
subject of the rebel outrages in
the Southern States. In Mon-
roe Co., Mississippi, sixty schools
have been closed by Ku Klux
outrages, and the teaches driven
off. All of the schools east of
the Tombigbee in the same State,
some "thirty in number, were
broken up last month. Several
of the teachers have been shot,
others whipped and others run
out of the State. Gen. Howard
vouches for these statements as
trust worthy. The Democrats
hate free schools as the devil
hates holy water for free public
instruction destroys that dense
popular ignorance which alone
makes Democracy possible.
District Court commenced in
Kaufman on the 1st ist.
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Nelson, Richard. The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, June 5, 1871, newspaper, June 5, 1871; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth203064/m1/2/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .