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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
April, and during the dull months a semi-weekly and weekly were
published. By 1858-59 the circulation of the weekly had grown
to some 2,500 or 3,000 copies. In January, 1858, Major Brown
retired, and in January, 1860, Mr. Durnett's interest was acquired
by Mr. Adolf Menard, who became the junior editor.
Mr. Stuart had always been a consistent Democrat, had strongly
opposed "native Americanism" or Know-Nothingism in 1856,
when it made some headway in Texas, and had been a Union man,
opposing secession, although without sympathy with the Republi-
cans or Abolitionists of the North. In 1861, after Governor Hous-
ton had been deposed by the action of the secession convention,
his Secretary of State, Major E. W. Cave, who also had been
ousted, became one of the owners and editors of the paper, and
they were among the "old guard" who accompanied General Hous-
ton when he made his celebrated speech from the east gallery of
the old Tremont House in spite of the threat made that he should
not be heard."
In 1862, in consequence of the blockade of the port of Galves-
ton, the Civilian was suspended, and Mr. Stuart temporarily re-
tired to a farm in Chambers county, returning to Galveston in
1864.
With the close of the Civil War he was forced to begin life
anew in the place where he had started as a young man in 1838,
and in July, 1865, revived the paper. In his salutatory, among
other things, he said:
Government, society, industry, morals, religion have suffered
such damage as was never inflicted on life and property by a great
tempest from the skies. In this work of repairing damages there
is sufficient employment for all, and we propose to recommence
our humble part where we began in 1838, and assist to the full
extent of our poor powers, and with all the means within our con-
trol, to promote the cause of civil liberty, of order and law; to
discourage intolerance, violence and mob. law, now and hereafter,
as heretofore; to disseminate useful information, promote industry
and encourage such discussions in regard to the proper functions
of government, and the duties of citizens as may tend to restrain
the one within its proper limits and inculcate in the other a
proper sense of their obligations to themselves and others. They
5The circumstances attending the delivery of this speech are given in
the interview referred to in note 3 a,bove.-T-IE EDITORS.386
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