The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 272
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the Old South in all matters Texan by its reproduction of
New Orleans Picayune items dealing with Texans generally,
their schools, manners, entertainment, and, incidentally, the
transfer of Texas to the United States.
Constitutionalist
March 2, 1846
Copied from N. O. Picayune, Feb. 22.
By the arrival, last evening, of the steamship Alabama, Capt. Windle,
we have Galveston dates up to the 19th inst.
Verbally we learn that the revenue laws and regulations of the United
States went into operation at Galveston on the 17th inst., the Texas laws
in the matter ending the day previous. The Alabama was the first vessel
entered in Texas under the United States laws.
The public school system is about to be established in Galveston, as
we learn under favorable auspices. [N. Y. Tribune, Boston Atlas, and
New England papers generally will please notice.]
The Swiss Bell Ringers have been highly successful at Galveston,
drawing forth the warmest encomiums from the press. They had given
three concerts to full houses, and were about leaving for Houston when
the Alabama sailed.
The local intelligence is of little or no importance. The following letter,
from a friend of ours who has just landed in Texas, thinking he was
entering a country of semi-barbarians, will open the eyes of some of
those who have made it a point to decry that country upon any and
every occasion:
Galveston, Feb. 19, 1846
Friend Pic:-I freely confess that I have never been more agreeably mistaken at any
thing I have met in my travels, than I am at the society, habits, and conditions of this
city. Instead of a rough, licentious, and illiterate population, such as the Northern and
Eastern people are in the habit of describing the people of Texas, I find a more open-
hearted, hospitable set of people than any I ever met in the older States; and I will stake
my head and hat that for good breeding and general information, they equal any population
of the same number that can be scared up.
How some folks, who talk of Texas as a spot outside of civilization, would open their eyes
were they to visit the Tremont House, here, and see Capt. Seymour, the gentlemanly and
affable host, heading a table groaning under the weight of good things, and surrounded by
as fair women, and fine looking men as we can find in any city, or in any land. I have
said a good many bad things about Texas when I didn't know any thing about it; but I
recant, I take all back.
Nobody here believes the rumor about Mexican invasion, recently brought to Corpus
Christi, but think it all a ruse, to sell a large lot of mules for the use of the army-said
mules having recently arrived there.-You will hear from me again.
The Picayune gave Texas almost as complete coverage as did
the Texas papers. The following article tells of the organization
and inauguration of the new government and serves as an
excellent introduction to the copies of the addresses of Anson
Jones and James Pinckney Henderson and the Telegraph and
Texas Register editorial which follow.272
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