The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 12, July 1908 - April, 1909 Page: 121
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The Experiences of an Unrecognized Senator.
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habits, intelligence and integrity of a people, as well as of relative
space and population.
Texas, as a State, has large and diversified interests, both local
and general, that should be represented in the Congress of the
United States. She would be pleased to have representatives of
her own choice to speak for her there. Texas having done what
she deems to have been her duty, and still being willing to do it,
leaves the responsibility of the future upon those who have the
power to shape the destinies of the country."
The following remarks appeared in the National Intelligencer
of Washington for January 17, 1867:
CONSOLIDATION-THE PROCESS OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND ITS
PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES.
It is now evident, from the measures presented to the present
Congress, and the debates thereon, together with the response of
the press in the various parts of the country, that consolidation is
receiving a new impetus that threatens a total change of the gov-
ernment as it has heretofore existed under the Constitution of the
United States. The storm of war has passed over, but the waves
of public opinion are still dashing high, and are even now giving
token of continuing in a deep, overwhelming current of dreadful
portent. A new principle is being evolved and acted upon, which,
though it may not be formally announced, is really that which is
exciting to the destruction of State governments, the introduction
of universal suffrage of all races in all the States, and finally, the
complete identity and similarity of institutions and interests in all
of them. Under the clause of the Constitution which says that
the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
republican form of government,' an effort is being made to im-
perialize the whole country under one head, one department-the
Congress of the United States-who shall dictate the basis for the
Southern States, and ultimately for all of the States, upon which
citizenship, suffrage, and qualification for office-State and Fed-
eral-shall rest; and who, when other questions of State policy
may arise, shall draw them into the arena of national politics, and
by the decree of this central power, seek to assimilate all interests
and institutions throughout all the States; and who, to insure this
grand ultimate object, may reform, reorganize, or reconstruct the
other departments of the government-the executive and the judi-
ciary-as well as that of the States.
Should Congress perch itself on this magnificent car of state,
it will be necessary to go into perpetual session, or at least devise
agencies to effect the same object. The history of the past in other
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