The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 27, 1872 Page: 2 of 4
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RICHA.RD NELSON,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
For President In 1872.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Subject t«i the nomination of the National
Republican Convention.
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1872.
Our Weekly.—Our weekly
issue contains the editorials on
many subjects, entertaining
items, and various political and
miscellaneous articles, all of
which make the paper, we hope,
interesting- and acceptable to
our readers.
The Columbus, (Ga.) Sun says
that ex-President Jefferson
Davis has removed to Baltimore,
and that he will in future make
that city his home. He is said
to be preparing a " vindication
of liis administration" while
President of the Confederate
States.
George C. Mahan, of Memphis,
in company Avith Mr. Emerson,
lias just invented a steam canal
boat, the model of which cost
$12,000. They are candidates
for a $100,000 prize offered by
the State of New York for a boat
of that kind.
The following lines are dedi-
cated to the editors of those
journals who have lately prosti-
tuted journalism by slandering
and vilifying the editor of this
paper " before he was placed on
trial upon the trumped up
charges" of which he has been
declared guiltless by a jury of
his peers:
He who traduces " because lie can
With safty to himself," is not a man.
The Democratic party, like all
people in difficulty, is ready to
seek any allies from the disinfec-
tants of all parties, irrespective
of color, religion or nationality.
Let us read from the Jefferson
Weekly Times:
We want the black and colored
people to read the few words we
have to say to them this morn-
ing. We will have many more
facts and arguments to present
to them.
We are inclined to believe that
the time is close at hand when
the black people of this country
_ will begin to think and act for
themselves, and that they will
conclude that they must co-oper-
ate with the intelligent white
people, if they desire ultimate
prosperity. Times are too hard
and wages too low. Radical
rule want do. The best informed
black people, like the whites,
have had enough of it. They
are tired and sick of enriching
carpet-baggers and scalawags,
who are picking up their thou-
sands to spend elsewhere.
None as regard the radical
portion of our community, they
are fast wearing out, for extremes
meet, and by an irresistible law
of motion and force destroy one
another. The Republican doc-
trine of equal, political privili-
ges is universal in its application,
and the very foundation of the
structure stone of the American
Capital of freedom. The scent
of the old democratic party still
stinks in the nostrils of the peo-
ple, and its blatant leaders are
still howling through the land,
and crying come to us ye colored
brethren, and we will give you
rest, profit and office, but promi-
ses are bad words and worse
logic then they are believed as
uttered for the benefit of our side
only. We want proof of your
sincerety Messrs. Democrats be-
fore we can trust, and until you
show more respect for our race
and color, you must abide the
issue and accept the results
without complaining. No doubt
the extreme rads have not acted
on the square with us in many
instances, but the Republican
party, to which in truth and fact
we belong, would rather you
would give some better evidence
of your good feeling toward our
race than you have as yet mani-
fested, and then, and not till
then, will your demand for as-
sistance be complied with.
A telegraphic dispatch just re-
ceived from Brenham, informs
us that L. D. Miller, the colored
Democratic orator, will reach
here this afternoon, and speak
here to-night.—Houston Age.
We copy the above from the
Age to show to our patrons the
great changes of the present.
Who would have expected to
hear a leading Democratic jour-
nal heralding the approach of a
negro speaker, who being so de-
praved, so utterly aject and in-
sane as to forget the lash, whose
stripes still mark his back, and
to assist in inaugurating a new
slavery, if such we might call
the result of Democratic victory,
and the enactment of another
series of laws similar to those of
'66. WTe say depraved, because
we deem it depravity to argue
and rush forward .to active oppo-
siton to our own interests.
Yet, we presume that L. D.
Miller thinks it is smart to steal
capital by such a course. We
hear of brigands, who were
clever because they were swift
at their murderous profession,
while on the other hand, we
know Democracy cannot place
any confidence in such a person
farther than subserves their in-
terest. Yet, their arms are open,
like the robbers of Mexico, to all
and any, 110 matter their past,
only their present is of interest.
The Car Question.
How do affairs stand in regard to
personal rights of freedom in the
this and other Southern States.
Take as an illustration of the ap-
plication of the law of the spirit
of the Civil Rights Bill, the case
ofCuney, whose admission in the
car, at Houston, was refused by
the entrance guard of the ladies
car, and for what, why, and
wherefore ? Only on account of
his color. The News is sharp as
a paragraphist, but a dead lock
011 a sound, lengthy article.
True, the article to which we re-
fer is witty, but that has little to
do with the case in question.
Either Cuney had, or had not a
right to a seat in ladies car with
his wife, or he had no right
Politically, it must be conceded
his claim were good, and from
no other basis can his case be
viewed. He is known to the
law, and recognized in all parts
of the State as a citizen thereof;
why, wherefore refuse him a seat
on account of color H The Hous
ton road, though a monopoly, is
a public corporation, living off
the public, is protected in its
corporate rights by the strong-
arm of the law, which presses
with equal force upon both white
and black. The person in charge
of the car was afraid of offending
public reputation, or his timidity
extended to the limit of being
expelled from his position, by
the directors of the road. Mr.
Cuney contended for his rights,
simply as a citizen. And if he
had law, reason and Christianity
on his side, certainly he possess-
ed some personal considerations
from the employees of the Hous-
ton Company, and if he feels
agrieved at the treatment he has
received on this occasion, it is no
more than might be expected
from the peculiar incidents con-
nected with the insult upon his
race and color. It may be pos-
sible that a jury of his country-
men may be called upon to de-
cide upon the case at issue, and
tb them we confidently rely for
justice under the law, both as a
person and citizen, whose wrongs
the law is able to redress, and
whose rights of person and
property a jury is able to pro-
tect and vindicate.
Sumner, Trumbul, Schurtz,
et. al.
Mr. Sumner remains in doubt
as to his course in the coining
election. He is very reticent on
the subject, and he doubts the
success of any party opposed to
Grant; he manifests his caution
by making no demonstration
which can be used against him
in future. The fact is personal
pique, and most ambitious mo-
tives have influenced their con-
duct in their action towards the
President; and the people are
aware of this fact, and now they
want to use the disjointed fac-
tions of the Democratic party,
and make tools of its* leaders, to
carry out their vindictive policy
against Grant. But ranting,
slandering,abuse and speeches,for
buncomb, will little avail these
disappointed aspirants for office,
and their chagrim will only be
rendered the more intense and
venemous, when they find, in
November, that all their efforts
have proved in vain, and that
truth and justice are mighty, and
faithfull enough to reward na
tional worth and patriotism.
[ COMMUNICATIONS. ]
Republican Mass Meeting:.
The Republicans of Galveston county
are hereby requested to meet in mass
meeting at the A. M. E. Church, on
Broadway, on Wednesday, May 1st, at
7i o'clock, a m., for the purpose of
electing their Deligates to the State
Convention, called at Houston, on the
second Tuesday of May for the ensuing
year, and for such other business as
may properly come before the meeting
N. W. Cuney,
Chairman Executive Committee,
Galveston County
REPUBLICANS OF LTBERTYCOUNTY.
Editor of Representative.
Pursuant to a call of the Republican
State Executive Committee, for a State
Convention, to assemble in the city of
Houston on the 2d Tuesday o£ May
next. The undersigued, in behalf of
the Republican voters of this county,
do hereby call a County Convention of
the aforesaid voters, to convene in the
town of Liberty on Saturday, the 21st
day of April, 1872, at 12 o'clock, a-
in the district school house. And it is
respectfully urged and suggested that
not less than three attend from each
precinct.
Fellow-citizens of Liberty county it
is of the most vital importance that
you take immediate action in this mat-
ter. Select the best representative
men of your party, and see that they do
not fail to attend. Come, resolve to
exercise your rights of suffrage in favor
of none, who do not pledge themselves
to support the great and fundamental
principles of the present Administra-
tion, viz: Equal rights to all, irres-
pective of race, color, or former de-
gree of servitude.
Wm. H. Reynolds,
Chr'm Rep. Co. Ex. Committee.
P. A. Venablh, Secretary.
* Value of imports at New York
last week, $7,434,437.
The present has been the
coldest March for a hundred
years.
Governor Clafiin, of Massa-
chusetts, indorses Grant for a
re-nomination.
Deaths in New York last week,
700; marriages, 109; births,380.
The British Atlantic naval
squadron has arrived at Annap-
olis, Maryland.
National Prize Fight in Dun-
dee.
On Saturday afternoon, a
prize fight came off on the level
space on the west side of the
Law, the combatants being a
Scotchman about twenty years
of age, hailing from the Ilawk-
hill district, and an Irishman of
about the same age, who resides
in one of the well-known recesses
of the Seouringburn. " Scotty "
has, it appears, for some time
back, in addition to his Other
functions, discharged those of
" Professor of the noble art of
self-defence," his lessons being
dispensed in a garret in Park
Wynd. In the course of his
professional career, he has turn-
ed out several pupils, who have
profited so little by their scien-
tific pugilistic education, that
they fell easy victims to the
strong arm of Pat, who had oc-
casion to " wallop" a whole lot
of them within a few weeks.
Constant victory has turned the
heads of greater men than the
young Irishman, who, from his
repeated successes among the
pupils of the Scot, began to con
ceive the idea of conquering
" Scotty " himself, and to brag-
that this would be an easy mat-
ter. This big talk soon reached
the Professor's ears, who, burn-
ing to revenge the repeated in-
sult heaped upon him through
his chicken-hearted pupils,
challenged "Pat" to have a
friendly fight on the law 011
Saturday. The combatants
having stripped, it was observed
that the " Scot" was encased in
tights, whil e a Kirkcalky strip
was Pat's nether garment. Be-
fore commencing operations, the
mother of the " Professor" again
implored her son not to fight,
but at a signal giving, she was
lifted out of the ring, and the
work began in earnest. It was
soon apparent that the " Pro-
fessor's" knowledge of the" art"
gave him a decided advantage
over Pat, into whose soul the
tights also appeared to strike
terror. After some pretty se-
vere hitting, Pat was ultimately
seized round the waist and
thrown violently to the ground.
This terminated round first, and
after a short breathing space the
same performance was rehearsed
with little variation for several
rounds. At last all Pat's pa-
tience got exliaused, and while
the "Professor" was standing in
his corner of the ring during
breathing time, Pat made a rush
at him and planted a well di-
rected blow 011 what in elegant
sporting phraseology would be
called " Scotty's" mug. This
the latter received with becoming
meekness and humility, and
without making any attempt to
retaliate, he deeming it better to
suffer than to break the sacred
rules of the P. R., and thus set a
bad example to his pupils, many
of whom were present. In the
next round, however, he did not
neglect to repay his debt, and
after pommelling poor Pat's face
very severely, he at last, to
finish the round, landed him
right in the heart of a whim
bush, from which he was extri-
cated by his seconds. The mill,
however, was cut short. A cry
was raised that the bobbies
were approaching, and poor Pat
snatched up his clothing and
bolted off with his battered car-
cass as fast as his legs would
carry him. The policemen, con-
tent with stopping the fight, did
not push matters further. We
have not heard who has been de-
clared victor.—Dundee Courier.
Not long ago, when the Kan-
sas Legislative charges against
Senator Caldwell came to Wash-
ington, that gentleman indulged
in a great deal of spirited " hur-
ling." That he did not, at the
same time, ask for a full investi-
gation by a committee empower-
ed to send for persons and pa-
pers may have been a sheer in-
advertence. lie has now an op-
portunity to supply that omis-
sion, since the Hon. Sidney
Clarke of Kansas has restated
the gravest of the allegations
made against Mr. Caldwell in a
letter addressed to the Chairman
of the Senate Committee on
Privileges. Mr. Clarke revives
the frightful stories of Mr. Cald-
well's having bought up the
Legislature which elected hiiii to
the Senate of the United States,
and asks that he (Clarke) have a
chance to prove this iniquity be-
fore the Committee. After an
impeachment like this, of course,
Senator Caldwell will ask for the
most searching investigation
possi bl e.— Tribu ne.
Value of Greenbacks Now and Then.
When Geu. Grant was elected Presi-
dent the premium 011 gold was forty
cents 011 a dollar ; that is, a gold dol-
lar was worth §1 40 in greenbacks. A
greenback dollar was therefore worth
only seventy cents. Since his election
the premium on gold has been steadity
falling until now it is only ten cents
011 a dollar. I11 other words paper
money has been gradually improving
in value until there is now only ten
cents difference between that and gold
and a dollar of it will sell for niuety
cents.
Every dollar in greenbacks the peo-
ple hold is therefore worth just twenty
cents, or about twenty-nine per cent,
more now than wben he was first elec-
ted, and we may truthfully say—be-
eause he was elected! As there are
$399,874,805 (38—in round number
$400,000,000 in greenbacks and fraction-
al currency—the people who hold and
own it are worth eight millions of dol-
lars more than then, for that is the ap-
preciation in the value of our paper
currency. Every man who has had
$100 in greenbacks laid away for three
years and a half can sell it for twenty
dollars more than it vas worth then.
And the same is true in regard to our
bonds. They have been constantly
increasing in value, at the same time
the people who hold them have been
receiving an annual interest in gold of
six dollars on everv hundred.
Do the soreheaded bolters hope or
expect, by aiding to restore the cor-
rupt rebel Democracy to power, to do
better than this ? The people, having
thus enjoyed a practical benefit in
dollars arc! cents from Gen. Grant's
administration, Avill demand his ser-
vices another term, let office-beggars
do what they will and go where they
may. They will be very sure not to
o-ive up a patriot and an honest man
for a selfish and corrupt adventurer
and demagogue.—[National Era.
A little boy in Morgan county
in this State was lisping his
prayers with his twin brother at,
his mothers's knee, when he
came to "give us this day our
daily bread," he was astonished
so to hear a fraternal whisper,
"Ask for cake, Johnny, ask for
cake."
A Missouri lady was the other
day hugged to death. Another
proof of the immense power of
the press.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
EXCHANGE HOTEL—
Late Island City Hotel,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
JOHN SUMMERS, - Proprietor.
Free Buss at all Trains and Boats.
SONNENTHEIL BROS. & WENlv,
DRY GODS,
LADIES' & GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS'
EMBROIDERIES, LACES, GLOVES,
SHOES, BOOTS, TRUNKS, &c.
157,150 and 161 Market Street,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
ISLAND CITY SHOE STORE.
Edwin Belcher. John F. Quarles. E- R. Belcher
Belcher, Quarles & Belcler,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HAMBURG, S. C.
Prompt Attention Given to the Collection
of Claims.
OFFICE IN THE BANK.
apl3-tf.
HVCOTsTIEY LOCUST IE ID 03ST
All articles of value, by JACOB RUDY
Agent, at 108 Post Office Street,
Galveston, Texas.
Unredeemed articles for sale.
LEGAL CAE DH.
T. J. LEAGUE.
ATTORNEY &. COUNCELLOR AT LAW
Hundley Buildings,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
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C. B. SAB1N,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Office; Corner Strand and Tremont strelit.
Eutrance No. 10j Strand and 5« Tremont wt.
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W. 1". li.VLLl.NUKK TI10S. JI. JACK SI. F. SIOTT
BALLINGER, JACK & MOTT,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
No. Postoffice st.,
<; ALYESTON TEXAS.
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