Texas Centinel. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 3, 1841 Page: 3 of 4
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Council deemed it expedient to pass a law commanding
them to leave their territory which the Kick'upoos re
cused to do but assembled their tribe numbering: twelve
hundred w.irriors determined to resist the Choctaw law.
They luve in addition to this sent the war hatchet to
the nmn'rous wild and savagestnbes who inhabit the
extensive tract of country lying between the Choctaw
line and the llocky Mountains.
It is also said that all the traders who had been resid
ing amougthe Indians were Busily engaged in removing
their goods to the vicinity of Fort Jowson forprotec
tion.
lis and the Txians: By Hery S. Foote."
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-VTMHtve peeu laviuuu uy uie umiiui wiui a uiiiy iu.
thlSTWork'.iu-t lSbiied from the press of 1 Immas Lo-
perthwaite & Co- of Philadelphia; printed and bound
m the moitelejr.uit stvle. It embraces two large duo
decimo volumes containing upwards of 700 pages and
the history will be completed in another volume of a
like size. We confess we had but a most imperlect
knowledge of Texas until we read Gen. Footes vol
limes lie traces in a graphic but rapid manner the
different efforts made by the anglo-American race to
settle that country. '1 be work possesses all the force
of history and all the feeling and fascination of a popu
lar romance. It contains a mass ot valuable historical
information; andwe venture to predict that it will have
a m re popular run than any work of the kind that ev-
er issued from the American press. On another occa
sion we will present our readers with some of the thril
ling narrative and pregnant scenes with whtch "Texas
and the 1 exians ' abouuds. Vicksburg Sentinel.
A N. York correspondent of the N. Orleans Bulletin
holds forth as follows:
"The money market shows the regular quarterly
cramp a disease we -are all subject to in this Sodom ol
America. Every man renting a house is busy dun
ning his creditors and putting the small payments bv
to be ready for the first day of May. That day by the
bye will be very famous this year. Nearly half the
town will be moving. Great folks take moderate hou-
ses; moderate people take small houses; and small peo-
ple take sheds and tea-rooms; and the tea-room people
must take to .the Park and the Battery. Economy is the
order of'ibe dav.-juy f "wurbe practised to a veryHarse
extent in tins community." As for the loafers who for
merly luvuriatedfon the benches and grass of the Battp
ry unfortunate individuals they will be compelled to
roll over into thewater. or hang upon sloops or wood
piles on ihe wharves. We are a poor poverty stricken
race up in these northern parts; and unless we have a
war and a chance to Mist Heaven only knows where
we shall fetch up next year. In the mean time we
think Texas will be strongly populated from these parts
during the summer."
TEXAS CENTIN EL.
"VERITAS VINCI T."
AUSTIN THURSDAY JUNE 3.
FOR PRESIDENT
DAVID G. BURNET-
Capt. M. B. Lewis with his company has arrived
in town having scoured the country for two hundred
miles above this city and away to the west toward the
headwaters of the Nueces. He discovered but few In-
di ms in his route a hunting party or so. One of these
parties consisting of five Indians one white man and a
squaw be fell in with a little above San Antonio all
of which were killed except the squaw; she was taken
priso'njjl and brought in.
A company of surveyors a few days since discover-
ed an Indian encampment on the headwaters of the Na
vosoto of aboat two hundred supposed to be Chero-
kees who seemed to be preparing to settle and plant
corn. The alarm was immediately given to the settle
rmnts in Robertson county ; when the company of
"Minute Men" under command of Capt. Eli Chand
ler immediately repaired to the camp attacked it and
put the whole to route withthe exception of five In
dians which were killed on the ground. In the camp
were found various farming utensils amongst which
were some two dozen Collins's axes. ' From this fact it
is evident that the Indians were preparing to make a
permanent settlement at least for the growings season;
and also that they were northern Indians; and this lat
ter is more apparent from their beingdressed in' citizens'
clothing. There -were about fifty' American horses'
taken. The whole of t heplunder taken on the
occasion was sold by auction at the town ef Franklin
the proceeds of which moantl to about thrwi .thoa-
ortMpondents
little ad
dicted to fibbing continue like croaking frogs to harp
upon the letters of tfublius.' In his last number he
attempts to identify Publius' and 'Austin!' Vf
non m irnmtr innr iniuso turn nrriton rt Iho I -ai1llnala
entirely distinct and separate persons and we believe
we are authorized to say that they have had no commu-
nication with each other in relation to Iheir respective
productions. But we also feel confident that neither
Publius nor Austin is afraid or ashamed to be known;
for both are or ought to be conscious of having asserted
nothing but what is true and can be proven to be true
and that if their strictures have been a little severe they
ire justified by the facts and are wel adapted to the
circumstauces to which Jhey relate.
But it don't happen to suit the designs of the Gazette
or the friends of Sam Houston to enter into a strict in
vestigation of fads they prefer generalities as more
congenial to the fictitious reputation and better adapted
to the declamatory style of their would-be hero. This
is very natural conscious that their hero has really
done nothing either here or elsewhere to merit the
title but that the very reverse of it may and would by
a strict enquiry into fads be fastened upon him they
carefully eschew investigation and rely upon the con
tinuance of a fraud which peculiar circumstances have
palmed upon the public mind but which unfortunately
for them daily developements are contributing to re
move. We will venture to assert that there is not a
single respectable man officer or soldier of the army ol
'36 who will seriously and deliberately say that he be
lieves Gen. Sam Houston to be a brave man much less
a general in the eminent sense of that term. That he
had the title and the commission of a general is not
doubted. The army of '36 knew and deplored that
fact and the desolated West has still abundant reason
10 remember and lament it. Could Travis and bis im
mortal baud speak from their ashes they would testify
in accents of horror to the fact. Could Fannin and
his massacred host teiMKeithe groans which lingered
on their dyingliisfibyioo1 would repeat the melan
choly truth that Sam Houston was the general-in
chief in '36! I
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But will any decent man bear testimony to his capaA
city as a general or 10 ms cnivairy as a man t opiiir
sycophant seeking for office may do so ; but he like
the Gazette and its correspondents must resort to gene
raliiies for he cannot fiud air instancein' point of either.
Fiction fable fraud are the origin. thefoundatFojarand
the superstructure of jail Gen. Houstqn' fame at
least of all that port'ionfofcit uTat a decent man would
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desire. For he has a fame; rwell-acquired infamous
notoriety which his most servile friends cannot conceal
nor his enemies well exaggerate. Time will confirm
ithistory will record it and the next generation in
Texas when the little schemes of our present political
speculators shall have passed away will blush and bej
aggrieved at the recollection of it.
But why does the Gazette continually harp upon the
letters of 'Publius V Or rather why does not the
editor or his correspondents undertake to refute some
of the statements of that writer? It is of little conse
auence to the public who wrote those letters. The
more important inquiry is are they true ? Do they
contain facts and nothing but facts? 1 they are not
true in all their facts let the errors be exposed; and ifl
the writer has committed one wilful unmerited asper
sion on the good name of any man let him also be ex
posed and receive the chastisement due to his wicked
ness. But if he has written nothing but the truth and
has commented with even a little too much severity on
thft truth I can see no good reason for this constant
harping like the croakings of the mudpool upon the
general theme of Publius. i
Let the editor of the Gazette or its sapient contribu
tors refute some of the statements of Publius and then
we shall have some evidence of their right to designate
ind denounce the author tboM letters. "If we recol-
ect aright Publius hMklfSAM Houston .was a
cpmmon'.&runkardprMBfcthlnff to- thMAeffecV This
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fafselioo; we will chee-
of the Gazette both in rt-
aaltr denunciations of the famous letters
her C44ht' But let us have the conlradic-
ments.'i
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fully concarjhth thfrMitbr of the Gazette both in rt-
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and the authc
hon positive firstJand'then look out for the proofs; and
if they don't come; wo is unto Publius. But if haply
the proofs should come and the charge be made clear
as the noon day sun. (and we believe it can be establish-
ed ill-a COUrt of iuslice. or anvwhere else where rpnenn.
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ante menaeciae upon reasonable testimony) we do hope
the s editor of the Gazette will cease his everlasting
lamentations about Publius.'
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'anon;
The two eloquent Jones. A public meeting was
held in San Felipe a few weeks since and Oliver Jmes
mas called to the chair when it appeared the object of
the meeting was to nominate Dr. Anson Jmes ns a can-
Udalefur the office of Vice Presid'iit which was accord
ingly effected; there being only thre dissenting voices.
Whether the meeting consisted of a half dozen or dozen
persons does not appear from the minutes of the pro
ceedings. The nomination it appears was made by
a citizen of Brazoria county. Whether the eloquence
of the honorable chairman secured the approbation of
the audience to the nomin ition we have not ascertain
ed we leave this to be divulged by the Austin Gazette
which was the first to herald to the world the important
information that these orators existed. We can vouch
for the fact that they are peculiarly eloquent in trum-
peting each other's praises.
The United States seem to be full of counterfeiters
and forgers. We hardly onen a paper from the North.
South East or West but something in this- line meets
our eyes. What surprizes us mo-t is that the people
will allow themselves to be imposed upon almost for
the hundredth time apparently wi'hout any exertions
to detect the imposition until it is too late. We Texians
should keep our eyes skinned or we too may possibly
suffer from the professional operations of these accom
plished rascals. The five million loan may attract
their cupidity and prompt them to visit us.
Mr. Kaufman denies through the San Augustine
paper tie btatement. wbicjiivil be recollected we
made sometime since that this gentleman while
Speaker of the House of Representatives last winter
ordered the enrolling clerk to strike out the preamble
to the law 'to exempt slaves from execution' which bill
was introduced by Mr. Matfield. We made the as
sertion at the express request of this latter gentleman
and thought we could rely upon its correctness. But
as it is we cheerfully make the correction and hope
not to be imposed upon in this way again.
Judge Webb says the Civilian of the 19th tilt. left
Galveston yesterday for Vera Cruz as Minister to
Mexico. He was taken by the war schooner San Ber
nard Lieut. Crisp commanding.
The crops of the country as far as we have heard
are highly promising and much more extensive than
those of any past year. They are now so far advanced
as to be beyond the danger of injury from dry weather.
Civilian.
The recent letters which have passed between tha
Governor of New York and Virginia in which the
subject of reclaiming fugitives Irom justice from the
respective states is renewed seems to be regarded with
interest in these states. This lat correspondence ori-
ginated in the demand of New York for a white man
guilty of forgery. He was given up by Viiginia but
the request was renewed by that slate tor the delivery
by New York of a person charged with negro stealing
in Virginia. The Governor of New York admits the
right of Virginia to reclaim absconding slaves as persons
held to labor or sprvicc under the constitution of the
United States; but still denies the right of another state
to demand a person to be tried and punished lor an act
negro stealing for instance which is not a crime
according to the laws of New York. We fear that the
question is one which will hereafter cause a good deal
of trouble between the different states.
SALE of Farm md Town lot in Victorian-Then will be sold
at auction on tha 8th day of July next a large portion of the a.
bore property ofthe Corporation of Victoria. v
The clearing out of the Guadalupe river for its navigation to this
place is now in progress and will be completed in a few months; there
is at this time a steamboat a few miles below the town which safely
entered and passed up thus far proving the practicability of the en-
terprise. " V
With an unobstructed navigation from ibis place to Passo Caballo it
a avirfxnt that tha r.nmmfireial intatconna between the Upper settle--
rLeotoof d.Hnr Colorado and: the San Antonio- will be througk.
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Texas Centinel. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 3, 1841, newspaper, June 3, 1841; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80052/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.