Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 25, 1852 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS -STATE GAZETTE
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H? . BREW8TER' Editor: J. W. HA11PTON Asnciciato Editor.
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ELEOTOItS FOR THE 8TATE AT LARGE
i' :IiCMcl D. EvaBS of Harrison. GHy M. Bryan o Brazoria.
DISTHICT ELECTORS :
' Cearfe W. Sytkj Jitter. Robert S. Neighbors of Bexar.
siSF" In & notice of tho People's lino of stages lately estab-
Jte ' lished bottyecn tliis city and Houston wo mentioned incidentally that
tho freight was "juotha)f that chargedon the mail line." At the time
wewore correct but wo are now informed by the ngent in this city
that tho price of freight on tho mail lino has been reduced to tho old
rates six cents per pound Wo arc pleased to learn also that tins
lino is in a first-rate condition godd horses magnificent coaches so-
ber and experienced drivers with agents vigilantly alivo to the com-
fortantUintcrest of travelers ; delays will bo unusual and failures im-
possible. JggT Tho reador's special attention is directed to the arti.
clea on tho fourth and fifth pages of to-day's paper. After
reading tho extracts from tho speech of that noted fanatic
Ttiad.' Stevens and tho sensible and patriotic articlo from the
Herald of ihd Union if thoro bo a "whig who can then go and
vote for Scott ho is certainly a hard case whoso patriotism or
lnnacymust bo the subject of serious doubt.
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ESP "Wo greet with a cordial welcome Messrs. Crawford
lab of tho Lone S(ar at Washington and Mr. Howard of tho San
' Antonio Ledger who havo been in our city for some days past. They
look as if tho labors of tho profession rested lightly upon them and
nuiy they long live and prosper.
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The District Court is yet in sessibn in this city and
wiirprobably continue throughout the next week. A larger
amount of business has been disposed of than has probably
ever been dispatched in this county in tho samo length of time'
nco its organization. One person has been 6ent to tho Poni-
ttcntiury John Franks for larceny ono year; and a large
itiiumbor of convictions have been made ior gaming and other
offences. Another court or two under tho administration of
Judge Hancock aided by such a Grand Jury as that which
has just dispersed cannot but produce results in our commu-
nity highly gratifying to overy lovor of peace and good order.
BCgT The reader's attention is directed to the alteration in
tho commercial card of Messrs. Gordon McCamloy & Co. at
Matagorda. And wo ask pardon of that firm for not sooner
making tho alteration desired ; it has been delayed by tho un-
avoidable absence from tho ofllco of the partner who attends to
that branch of tho business.
Whig Eltcttri Tho Journal of yesterday presents tho names of Judge
Caruthers of Travis and Col Kirby.of Austin ns Whig Electors for tho Wes-
tcrrt'Dhtrlct of this Stato. Theso gentlemen hnvt been selected by the Whig
Centra! Committee to till tho places of Cols. Ashe and Reily who decline ac-
ting in that capacity.
Col Ashe wo learned 6omo time ago would uot pupport General
Scott this wo suppose has induced him to withdraw. Is it ditto of
Col. Iteily 1 Can the Journal who is fond of asking questions tell us 1
B3gTOur whig cotemporaries labor hard to conceal tho fact
that Mr Webster and President Fillmoro areot heart opposed to Gen.
Scott on account of his titter destitution of nil tho qualities of a
statesman as well as for tho corrupt influences by which his nomina-
tion was secured. That such is tho fact however all who are not
wilfully blind must see. The Scott leaders are rancorously hostile to
Mr". Webster especially and openly ; thoir hostility to Mr. Fillmore
The Calerade.
Tho River and Harbor Bill has become a law ono of the items of
which is an appropriation of $20000 for the Colorado river. Al-
though we arc opposed to the principles of this bill ahd disgusted with
tho sectional unfairness of its provisions wo hope that a prompt ap-
plication of this money may bo made to tho ir..provcmcutof our river
Judiciously applied it will ensure to a portion of the' people of this
valley decided and permanent benefits. Tho removal of the raft will
render tho Colorado at all times navigable to Columbus a distance
of near ono hundred miles from the coast aild will afford facilities to
a rich and by far tho most productive portion of tho valley for the
transportation to market of their productions. The idea of rendering
the Colorado navigable to this point has become so unpopular as to be
well nigh abandoned without however wc think sufficient reason.
Tho opinion of every ono who has had experience in river boating
is that it can bo made navigable to this place for the larger portion' of
the year the quantity of water being greater than that in many rivers
which are riow navigable daily. This opinion is fortified by a scien-
tific survey maj.le under the authority of the General Government by
her own engineers" universally acknowledged to be able and which
in addition designates the work necessarry to be done and the money
necessary to do it. Tho unsuccessful attempt of the steamboat Colo-
rado to navigate our river has done more to impair confidence in it
practicability than if an attempt had never been mnde; yet this was
anything but a fair experiment and no reflecting man can regard it as
a test by which to determine the practicability of navigntiug our
river. Tho ' Colorado" is in no respects adapted to the river as she
draws fully two feet more water than a boat should to run success-
fully her draft being fully four feet. It will be time enough to aban-
don all hope of our river when the experiment is made with a proper
boat and after a few thousand dollars is expended in improving it not
before. For the last year a properly constructed boat could have run
the river almost daily and it would be an uncommon year that it
could not do so for at least six months; wo see no reason therefore
to depair of making it a safe certain ond expeditious medium of trans-
portation to tho coast especially when it will not cost the one-fortieth
of what a railroad must and can be done in one-fourth the lime.
It takes labor time and money to build a railroad and we shall be
most agreeably disappointed if a road is commenced to this place in
three years and still more so if it is finished in six. The process of
getting money subscribed or stock taken for a railroad is a slow ono
and the process of building one is still more so; it is so in countries
where there is an abundance of surplus labor how much more so
must it be here where the reverse is the fact. We do not wish to be
regarded as opposed to railroads and feasible railroad enterprises but
we regret to see our people so exclusively taken up with them as to
neglect and overlook other cheaper and more immediate advantages.
Let iho discussion in relation to railroads go on let interest and even
enthusiasm bo excited if possible for the real work must be preceded
by a year or two or three of this kind of talk. In the meantime let
us experiment upon a somewhat smaller scale improve our natural
facilities and make the most of them before we cut Providence and
set up for ourselves. We kuow there are some fast men with whom
rivers have become an obsolete idea an effete notion except for the
purposo of watering stock and breeding fish but we have not yet
caught up with such tratiscendant idiosyncrasies and live in the mod-
est hope of seeing the successful navigation of the Colorado if in the
furor of enthusiasm its bed bo not filled up to make tho track of a rail-
way. We hope the people of tho Colorado valley will not give over
this enterprise until they have fairly tested its merits. With an ap-
propriation of $40000 by the State in addition to tho $20000 by the
General Government' we are well assured that the Colorado can be
made navigable for small boats which the wants of trade will always
supply in sufficient numbers. Let them address themselves earnestly
to the work and not slight the favors of fortune- by running off after
every gaudy butterfly theory which flits across their path and in five
years they will have realized money enough to build a railroad along
its banks if thev desire it.
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foro and sinco his nomination and bv his wliolo course m lus own
Slate in opposing and overthrowing tho abolitionists and frecsoilers at
all points and in every contest. His nomination by tho united voto of
tho Southern delegates nt Baltimore mid his acceptance of tho plat-
form then adopted liecauso " it meets his cordial approval" and the
bitterness of the frecsoilers everywhere in their opposition to his elec-
tion all go to prove that ho will make a safo Presidunt for tho whole
country and especially for the South.
Mr. Bryan concluded by courteously introducing Judge Caruthers
to his nudience who he said had intimated his purpose to follow in
the discussion. The Judge after a somewhat lengthy exordium in
which lis descanted upon tho glory and grandeur of our government
the power and greatness of the namo of an American citizen the ex-
alted office of Pr?siden and the lovo and veneration entertained for
Washington our first President camo up rather .reluctantly wo
thought to the matters in discussion. He claimed much glory for
Gen. Scott as a military chieftain and in reply to the charge of hit
want of civil qualifications 6aid ho had rendered signal services to
the country in settling the nullification excitement in 1832 (an honor
attributed solely to Mr. Clay by whigs while he was living) and alto
in settling tho Canadian difficulties in 1837. He then declared very
emphatically that all tho old whig hobbies a national bank a protco-
tiVo tariff internal improvements distribution the abolition of the
veto power from tho constitution &c were obsolete ideas were dead
buried and forgotten abandoned by his party; that the people having
decided against them at tho ballot-boK tho whigs were such good
democrats that they at once gave them all up. We arc satisfied that
Judge Caruthers is honest and sincere in this declaration but wo opine
that his brother whigs at the North and indeed in all the old States
will hardly agree with him in this wholesale abandonment of all their
cherished measures all that has heretofore given to whigery an iden-
tity and an existence as a party. Such u course would dissolve the
party in the South and at the North convert it into a mob of ranting
freesoilers and crazy abolitionists a party fit to be led by such men as
Seward Greely and Fred Douglass. And such in truth is very
nearly the present coudition of the whig party and Judge Caruthen
is to be praised for his manliness in making the declaration though we
aro at a loss to account for the position ho occupies in advocating
the claims of a man representing stick a party. The Judge next no-
ticed the position of Gen. Scott on the slavery question and after
floundering through the awkward predicament in which he finds his
caudidate upon this delicate subject he concluded by summing up the
whole that Gen. Scott is at least as sound on this question as is
Gen. Pierce and that either would adorn tho office for 'which they
are rival candidates.
Mr. Bryan made a short rejoiuder to that portion of Judge Caruth-
ers' argument in which he attempted to prove that Gen Scott is as
sound on tho slavery question as is Gen. Pierce and suid that he could
prove from the record that Gen. P. is a sound southern man that he
has always been such ; while there is no lecord which proves any-
thing of the sort for Gen. Scott ; but on the contrary every act and
every declaration of his on the subject those who nominated him and
those who are his chief supporters all go to prove that tho South
cannot trust him and that our people should regard his election as the
greatest calamity that could befal the countiy. Tho rejoinder was
powerful clear and overwhelming and elicited prolonged and repeated
applause.
After a few remarks from Judge Caruthers tho discussion which
had been conducted throughout with the utmost courtesy and good
feeling by both gentlemen closed. The democracy hove just cause
to feel proud of their champion on this occasion ; we have often heard
Mr. Bryan with pleasure in our Legislature but on no occasion havo
we listened to a more able and eloquent defence of tho principles of
our party than he delivered on Thursday evening.
3Jir There was a very interesting political discussion at the
Capitol on Thursday evening last between the Hon. Guy M. Bryan
and tho Hon. B. F. Caruthers democratic and whig electors for the
State at Targe. There was in attendance quite a large number of our
citizens anxious to witness this the first formal discussion in our city
forprndeitial considerations is a little more disguised. This bitter- of the merits of tho two candidates for the Presidency and the prin-
fcess was evinced by Mr. Senator Mangum the conscience-keeper of
Scott whigery in tho South in a violent attack upon Mr. Webster
just before tho adjournment for appointing the Wilmington Com-
mercial in North Carolina and tho Knoxvillc ( 1 V.) Wnig both
violent anti-Scott papers to publish the laws; and Mr. Mangum
might havo included as a part of his " bill of complaints " against
the administration tho appointment of tho Hon. John B. Asho as col-
lector of customs at Galveston on able and decided anti-Scott whig
who has declined serving on tho Scott electoral ticket.
'dgp The President has appointed tho lion. Samuol D. Hub-
bard of Connecticut Postmaster-General in place of Hon. N. K.
HalLappohued United States Judge in New York The Senate has
confirmed bouYnppointments. A whig President will never place that
mightiest engine of our government the Postofike establishment in
.the bauds of a Southern man ; this of itself shows tho anti-southern
'tendency of whiggery
S3ET Wo learn Irom tho lion. Guy M. Bryan that thn cot-
ton crop in Brazoria andjho adjoining counties has been con-
siderably damaged by Ihb'wprm but tho Bugar cane will yield
an unusually largo crop
.'The Hon. D m. Stapp who has been iu our city for soveral
days past informs us that the cotton in Mission "Valley Vic-
toria county has been almost totally destroyed by tho army
worm. SoujQ.of tho planters will motjattompt to gather any-
thing from their fields bo complete hashoen tho work of des-
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ciples of tho parties they represent. The discussion was opened by
Mr. Bryan who in his introductoryremarks stated that as the whigs
in their platform had abandoned all the old issues between the two
parties the only question now necessary to be discussed and examin-
ed into was that of slavery. He then after giving to Gen. Scott all
the credit claimed for him by his advocates as a military chieftain
showed in a striking light tho danger of elevating to tho Presidency a
man whose solo claim to distinction is derived from military exploits
and who like Gen. Scott possesses no civil qualifications for that ex-
alted station. Ho then reviewed in a clear and forcible maimer the
influences and circumstances under which Gen. Scott was nominated
the prominent whigs of tho North who are advocating his election
and the whis ofthe South who refuse to support him and gave
their reasons therefor. No other conclusion could bo drawn said tho
speaker from all these well lecorded facts than that Gen. Scott would
make an unsafe President for tho South and the country nominated
as he was by frecsoilers and abandoned by many of the leading
southern whigs relying upon freesoilers mainly for his support lit
rau6t of necessity if not from choice be nlmost exclusively under the
tufluenco and control of this dangerous an unprincipled faction. Mr.
Bryan then reviewed the position and character of Gen Pierce. A
man o brilliant talents spotless private character and great experi-
ence in civil affairs having served a term of thirteen yeais in the
State and National Legislatures but ubove all that which should ren-
der him most acceptable to Southern men js his consistency as an ad-
vocate of Southern .rights his entire soundness ou tho slavery ques-
tion as evidenced not only by nil thepnte'eedents of his past life by his
speeches ond votoaiiujCongresSj-biitbyebiBflettofs on 'tho subiecftie
J3T" The members of Metropolitan Division of tho SonB of
Temperance are to celebrate their tenth anniversary at the
Presbyterian Church in this city on Wednesday evening next
the 29th instant. The ladie3 in particular and citizens genu
rally are invited to attend.
Correspondence of the Texus State Gazette.
Gonzales September 12th 1852
Editors State Gazette: In looking over your valuable paper 1
saw an article of yours in reply to Mr. Smith the editor of the Jour
rial. I was truly pleased with the tone of your remarks and with
the way in which you ' took him down." I havo long noticed the
extreme activity that tho editor ot the Journal was taking in this
election and the marvelous caro with which he watched over tho in-
terests of this State and I havo often thought that he was at least
suspicious " The last place we over forsake is our native land ; the
last lesson wo ever forget is that taught us around the fireside." Then
the editor's coure in this Stale is somewhat excusable ; knowing ub
we do that he hailed from that laud that gave birth to those hideout
monsters freesoilism and abolitionism. With this knowledge of the
editor's histoiy wc ceaso to wonder at his untiring energy and activity
in this election. We admire his devotion to General Scott and ex-
cuse the slang that ho heaps upon the head of Mr Pierce; inasmuch
as General Scott was the clioico of that party at the North who op-
posed the fugitive slave law (the whigs) and was nominated by tb
votes of the abolitionists in tho convention and Mr. Pierce was tho
choice of the Southern people and the law-abiding Northern men.
'" The editor of the Journal strives to make tho people of the South
believe that General Scott is tho champion of southern .rights and
that Mr. Pierce is the choice of tho abolitionists; but tho people ot
Texas have too often been duped by the Yankees of the North to be-
lieve his story and every thiust the editor makes only teuds to con-
firm tho opinion of the peopiu thot " there is something rotten in Ieu-
mark" especially among that class of individuals who believe that
the editor is anyways related to Solomon either by affinity or other-
wise. In evidence of tho fact thot Scott is the choico of the abolitionists
wo need but refer to the names of those who nominntcd him for that
hiah and responsible office. General Scott was the regular nominee
of the whig party of tho North and by leference to tho Journals of
Congress it will be found that only three Northern whigs voted for
the fugitive slave law while fifty-seven voted ngainst it. Thus it i
evident that this great war horso has been put on tho track by North-
ern whigs believing that tho South would bo duped by his military
glory. But'this is u-mistako. The timo has parsed when tho South-
crn'peoplo can bo duped bytheso' Northern tricks. They can no lon-
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Brewster, H. P. & Hampton, J. W. Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 25, 1852, newspaper, September 25, 1852; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth81050/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.