Tri-Weekly Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1869 Page: 2 of 4
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to
Whig, to any other
I but, be being turned
anxiety being felt
of some sort and an
( avoidance of military rule, for the sake
old times, (rone. perhaps of peace and re-union, they are willing
return, the pfopie Tecte'd thai republicans shall reorganise the
State, and as Jack Hamilton and his
friends have exhibited the most moder-
ation of conduct and the more friendly
disposition, they are naturally inclined
tiie"peo- to support them rather than Davis and
bis set, who did their level best to dis-
and members óf Con-
of the Legislatures,
the Senators to
that all
these were to trul;
pie, who -elected them. So our gov
ernment was called a representative
government, and the representative of
the people were called the servants of
, in turn,
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[District.
S Wli. R
r ot JITsvu
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Disirkl Court.
to snneunoe
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e certainty of an election, the
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tímmm
aSBMKm
to announce
wjStKSj¡& ■. .■JflM
has already been announc-
tbis county, and now
Mr. Wm. R. Baker, mone
" , and cteves to
ie should not be the Sheriff
county of Travis.
ar Woad* E. A,.Smith,
~*r*w
wpHP
ly votes, as we have none,
generous Congress, we
all to friend Bob on
>unds.
irk of the District Court, th t
tried hand, Mr. Frank Brown,
HI '(v/tif.j lí.tííiJ^'Siífisíf w$Ép$¿u,i]
District, Ferg.
.... «oñ of pur oíd
Claiborne Kyle, still bears his
aloft inonr. paper. lie .was in
day, looking in fine
order % a long race. ' c-íffKÉfVj
itative of this District,
jam, of illiamion.
srs know that
its to come in fore-
► of the race.
first on our an-
il wmjjm candidates
and Varoell,
When • man
was a candidate for any office, say for
Governor or member of Congress, the
question was never asked—is the Pres-
ident for him f WiH he be acceptable
to Congress ? Our predecessors would
have been horrified at such inquiries.
A Governor waíHected to «present
the people of the State, not a President
of the United States. What had a
President to do with a Governor?
What did it matter whether the Presi-
dent was for or against him ? A ma-
jority of the people, without interfer-
ence from Washington, elected the
main Whom they thought the best for
the station, and no one dreamed of
calling their right to do so in question.
So of members of Congress, they were
chosen to represent tho people of their
respective districts, without regard to
the wishes of members of Congress
from Massachusetts or Michigan, or
the good or bad people of those States.
What had they to do with the matter f
It was none of their business. These
tnembeí ■«•««• «hnaan to
" IÜ
franchise nearly half the conservatives
of the State. But, because of this,
the "red hot" radicals say that Hamil-
■! ton fe. democrat, and we ' presume
they will oWH him a rebel soon, and that
be witi not suit Grant or Boutwell or
Wendell Phillips—that Ihey are for Dar
vis—and, therefore, we must all vete
for Davis and Ruby and Parson Bryant.
We say Again, it is of no consequence
bow these men are—which side they
are on or whom they are for—let the
people go on and elect their represen-
tatives as if they were once moro free-
men, and let the radical Congress in-
terfere with a fair election and an hon-
est reconstruction, if they dare.
PÉ'íy: ^
Shortly after 1 wrote you from Ma-
con, I "pulled up staked and migrar
ted to the land of " swampaeed" and
ilvalry." On my way here. I pa ,
through Charleston. The last time
id seen the city was several years
previous to the war, when she was in
in the hey-day of her commercial pros-
perity, and I was particularly struck
with the contrast presented by the pre-
sent aspect of affairs there. Business
was exceeding doll and an air oí stag-
nation ana decay brooded over tho
place. The beleagured city bad not
recovered from the effects of the " late
unpleasantness," as rapidly as Macon,
Atlanta, and other Citet' of Georgia.
The latter city especially has risen
like a Phoenix from her ashes. When
1 last saw it, just at the close of the
war, it was a heap of smouldering black-
ened ruin«-4*carcely u house in the
place that was not more or less injured
by fire and bomb-shells. Not a vestige
of these rains BOW remains to tell of
the devastation of war, for they have
and baridi
iks, the tl
102 and 103 in
than that of any of
the Mississippi, We
there
...
but then the nights
ave it |
during
in to ?enr
i'ney ro prek'eii'te J ñ te recta
" ;
coi
• i out and
are not closed. The
wishes of the people, Who elected them,
or else a representative government
would he a farce.
How is it now ? - We feel humiliated
as we write the answer. Now, when
we are allowed to hold a election,
which is even considered a great favor,
and men are candidates for the diff<
ent offices, or talked of for such, the
question is askeel, as if it were of vital
importauc«J|| Grant for Smith or
Brown, for Toplofty or Muggins Í In
the name of wonder, what is it to
Grant, if he be President f It is none
of Grants business, if the people pre-
fer Smith to Brown for Governor of
their State, and yet this is said to be>
the great thing to be considered, ah
most the only thing.
The newspapers, small and big,
North and South, are now seriously
mooting the point, whother Grant is
for his brother-in-law, Dent, for Gover#
or of Mississippi, or for th it magnifi-
cent scalawag, Allcob or Alicorn, said
tobe the favorito of the subterráneas
radicals of that once proud and noble
supposed to Mettle ihe matter—if foi
Alcorn, or or some other red hot under-
ground radical—-that settles it, too,
aiifff.and- so it must be. In other words,
ppuit is. in effect, to appoint the South*
era Governors, and the elections are to
be mere shams. ^So, also, in Texas, a
dispute is now going on between the
two wings of the republican party, the
moderates and the destructives, wheth-
er Grant is for Hamilton or Davi„ for
had
ed individ
with it.
for being a
V'"?" A* f V
Hamilton Stuart tor the Slate
Senate.
The 12th Senatorial District, as laid
off by the late Convention, consists of
the counties of Galveston, Brasoria
and Matagorda. It is said the radicals
of this District will run the pretended
negro, Ruby, as their candidate for
Senator. It would be a great misfor-
tune and disgrace to the State for this
man to be elected. In this emergency
the Dispatch calls upon llamiltou
tuart, the talented, experienced and
. j-i . .. p. ... TTiniiiif ori'i
Stuart, to consoló be fue Conserva-
tive candidate. The Dispatch sayss
The Senator from Galveston shouli
be a man competent to consult with
our leading merchants upon the wants
of immediate legislation, to make the
Island City the great sea-port of the
Gulf.
We cannot and should not elect G,
T. Ruby, even if it defeated reconstrtic-
(ion. We must oppose him, then, with
another candidate, who will defeat him
and we nominate for Senator from Gal-
veston, that stern, honest, inflexible,
intelligent and appreciated citisea,
Hamilton Stuart, of the Civilian, who,
in a life long labor iu this city, has
earned the respect of the whole com-
munity and will be acknowledged b
all, white and black, to be the most !
man for that honorable positiou.
Mr. Stuart was a Union man before
the war, and if a(|ges ary, can take thu
test oath with a pure couscience. Mr.
Stuart may object to be a candidate,
but this fg no timo for trivial excuses.
Let the people with one accord call
upon him to become a candidate. Bwry
honest white man will vote for him,
and the freedmen of Galveston, who,
for years have seen and known him,
fully appreciate his superiority.
w We therefore nominate Hamilton
oiuart for the Senate and call on the
people, white aud black, to echo back
the nomination, until the 80th day of
November, when his minority in this
Senatorial District will forever put „
quietus upon tho fanaticism of Radical-
ism. 7 V, l;
We hope Mr. Stuart, however dis-
agreeable it may be to him in these
times and under present circumstances,
to become a candidate, will forego ali
hut patriotic considerations and give
his consent to this movement.
We know of no man we could more
warmly welcome to the capítol, and no
man with Whom the best inlere ts of
the State could be so safely intrusted.
With ¿ clear head iwid a sound heart,
be is the very man to be in the Legis-
all been cleared away, and handsome,
substantial buildings erected upon th sir
sites. I reached Charleston just in
time to miss the weekly packet plying
between thero and Georgetown, S. C.,
my temporary destination. 1 had no
alternative therefore but to remain In
Cutti'cowVii a Week, or take the «. K.
Railroad to Kingstree, and thence a
little two-horse hack to Georgetown.
When 1 left Kingstree, my head was
aching badly and the jolting of the
vehicle increased it so much, that at
length the torture was more than "hu-
man nature" could endure; I there-
fore politely requested the driver to
put mo out under a tree by the way-
side. The fellow evidently thought I
was crazy. " What f" said he, " you
certainly don't intend to camp out here
cool aud comfortable." i ^1
of one thing—takfuir th« ^
round that there Is raor,. ®lfl¡
agreeable weather in Texas t
found any where else.
po 'SSiy.
plete stagnation just now íml
truobulous waters of politic* i
ciined to think, however that I
ere long will be followed |iy a
that a dyke or a dam will „ivi,t
somewhere, aud th it a "crevLI>>
be formed which will require V
skill and engineering of
tinkers to stop up elfccinaily
Whonever I can pick up a ty
think will be amusi.jg 0r iiitere^
■ Yours, &c..
VVeudett PiitUi >.
I From tho BsUiawieSto
ips. m one ci
commuaications to the Aati-SU
Standard, expresses toe onbiuo t
he "would rather be any kuavit
Robert E. Lee"—even such a kna,,
we suppose, as Wen Jell flu
Well, that is a sulject on whnhe
ions may differ. Most «y*
rather be knaves of the £,36 I,
heroic, virtuous, beuevo.eni auá "i
naniinous, than miserable «tieik-t
like Wendell Philips. _ „
mouthed Thermites need not «w
inth
times,
black, ii
uliar and dangerous
man, white
it, would vote
tó that hybrid
ali night (it was about ten o'clock) by his readiness to be anykjaver,!
yourself under a tree." " Why not," than the greatest and best maaf
said I, "1 have camped out by myself the country has produced.
hundreds of nights iu the woods and already, by nature anil hibit,at
prairies, and no fatal resnlt ever follow- ant, unworthy, io tho quatities of ^
ed such terrible exposure yet*—at any manhood at least, to beep
rate," said 1, " 1 shall tike the chances with Dick Turpi or 0 t¡>t ú i ¿ii jl
again rather than suffer the torments i The prominence and i.ttlo?iéij''
I nave undergone for the Inst four or this fellow b*s ati-*i.ii5a-jtatnoag-lttj
five hours in you ' dug out.' And so ¡Mfoci, a taw iiiu^iraiiu.). -d jj;
one©, lii spite 'of the ideas of exoelleuce. If ami in
" >er; Tliefel-
ww ^xmorn-'
aud us one that would
probably fdr.iish a subject for a coro-
net's inquest in the next tweafy-four
hours. However, I did not notice all
this par.icularly at the time. I laid
W ÉM ■' I
•smart," it matters !
■ W 5o.; ;lr W
tongue, a id can month oa:tt h ruii<
philanthropic phrases, -it mtttetH a
Whether In* has a pliilarithr >p c
ment or ever,does a «eJf-Je.yi.g
The ppsBOsshw of a heart thvye
nidor rather an evidence oí wcé
Phillip is a fine example of a h
demigod. He professed to be ag
abolitioaist, and being i
myself down under a thick tree, with my
over-coat, under my bead for a pillow.
In a little while my head ache left me
in a measure. I went to sleep and the
next morning when I awoke the sun ' tune, he h*d an opportotii
was already up. I never slept better his faith by his works. "
in my life. 1 walked on some four or a ferociou* Union ma-i
five mílés to a house where I got break- (before, he co.iSiJ re I tho
fast, and then ¡uto Georgetown. The a covenant Vith lioll ■'
great solicitude of the driver on my extermi iaie all rebels,
account, however, w;ie explained, wheu any evidj .ee that he o
on mentioning the circumstance of biv-, for the liberation or
ouacing in the woods the night previous
to the landlord of the hotel where 1
stopped, he informen] me t'iat strangers
pasKing even one uight in the vicinity
■ ^ ^ . n mi - HjH|' 11 -
negro, or that he evor
ment, one comptny, or
Save "the life of the nafi
never heard ©fit. O. cot
wte new plantations, were almost offered his ,$*jh i-ivalaibi^
the country fever, and , services in tf g Bold. Ifl"11"
of the
uWiW ver^ a^1 fc0 prove fatal. If ¡ as warlike iu actiou as
had known my dangerous proximity : might have became a
to>those fatal rice plantations, 1 rather But he was no' ambili
think I should have endured the jolting of preform on t. He u«'
ol the cart a while longer. But you hearing of the roar
know the old song says, " There is a ; this in u, bo truculent and
little cherub th.it aits up alolt" to in speech, his the heart
guard " P.,or Jack" from the da .gore ¡ He is afraid of Ais o
of the deep, and I snppuso on the «ante has mved to bo. $|Nor
principle there m a coon or a 'poKsum. i frier,¡Js look ao-' - '
or some oiber "varmint" that sits up to bis reputation.
in the tops of the trees to protect old sidor cowardice a
Texans tiom the dangers of the "howl- blemish, it is perhaps a
ng wilderness.'* At any rato no fatal* ~ ' '
result has followed my imprn lent ex-
posure as yet. Georgetown is a queer
>ld place. With a population of per^
taps only two or three thousand, it oc-
cupies as much space as the city of
Cincinnati. At one tim.!, I,am told, it
was a place of considerable business,
but afiar a while it was overshadowed
in that way by the city of Charleston,
t it /I at •«, i*. V w
a man. But «jven if he
i lea, he ought to :
tiou for men who
niture With this peculii
Grant and the other
the world were
helpft.'^Ve m ist iri
«ven for Grant on *
as w® like him, for t
«i 1 * 1 *' '
General Loe requ
from the assaultb of
ribald to&j
most pe
and at present, saving the exportation been attacke l
of lumber from its two steam saw-mills, ■
and a local trade, there is no business
doing there; But even for a fog time
after the loss of hor commercial pros-
perity, Georgetown was the headquar-
ters of the elite and fashion of the
bfftat1°- He™ ^h® wealthy rice planters
of the Pedee aud Wackamaer had their
town residence , where
during the winter and
numerous tH
profuse and
acteristic of (be
the good oW
residences
t> shade
of
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Josselyn, Robert. Tri-Weekly Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1869, newspaper, August 11, 1869; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181439/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.