The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918 Page: 132
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
announcements and comments scattered through the volume. The
prospectus announced that the Gazette would be "dedicated to
political and miscellaneous intelligence," chronicling "events as
they transpire, within our own country, or may come to us from
foreign parts"; it would be "the advocate of the national and
state constitutions, and of harmony and Union"; it would in-
dulge in no personalities or abuse-a policy carried out with re-
markable fidelity; it would try to obtain and publish good trans-
lations of laws and other important government documents,
"which'the want of a press has heretofore rendered it difficult to
procure"; and from time to time would publish information use-
ful to immigrants. News from the interior of Mexico-particu-
larly important then because of the renewed Spanish invasion-
the editor would try to obtain by regular correspondence with
New Orleans. Subscriptions, "payable at any time after the first
number has been issued," would be acceptable "in cash or Pro-
duce." Advertisements of not more than ten lines would be pub-
lished for one dollar for the first and fifty cents for each subse-
quent insertion.
In the issue of August 21, 1830, Cotten announced that he
had been troubled with applications to print statements concern-
ing the character of private citizens, but "our press shall never
be made the vehicle of accusations against the private character
of any individual whatever." Public men, for public acts, he
says, are responsible and may be investigated in the press, but
not so with private cases. In the issue of September 6 he prints
the bare news item that Seth Ingram, H. H. League, and J. G.
Holtham had a "rencontre" on September 2, that Holtham was
killed by "a pistol ball passing through his body," and that In-
gram and League were in confinement and the case under inves-
tigation by the proper authority-"we forbear making any com-
ments; but so soon as the trial is over we intend publishing the
evidence etc. in pamphlet form." The preceding issue had car-
ried the news of the escape of Hiram Friley, recently tried at
Gonzales for the murder of Fielding Porter; the Gazette had said
nothing about the trial of Friley "through what we conceive to
be editorial propriety." But this has a modern tone: "It is to
be hoped, that the civil authority will immediately adopt such132
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918, periodical, 1918; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101073/m1/138/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.