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Oen. Houston’s Advent.Mrs* it*. Editur* : The Civilian of yesterday, »pe»-, king of Gen. Hou»ton‘s tUi* and probable address to t our eltlneni, hopes that whatever may be our feel-i Ing*, “we will listen with due consideration to the 1 j view* of our long tried public servant,'1 Now,’ would 11 not be well to hint to the fst'hful “public ! servant” how indecorous it ii to oppose himself to | the will of the people who by the unanimous voice of atl parties, have proclaimed their determined opposition to Black Republican rule and their determination not to submit to It. We have a right to expect from Oov. Houston a “due consideration, which so far he has not shown.No man of sente supposes that recollection of past service*' can for a moment weigh against present factious opposition. Gen.,Houston has taken a course different from every other Oovernor of a Southern State, and we can promise him that the “recollections of 8an .lacluto” will not shield him from tha animadversion* his unpatriotic and antl-Southern course has merited.Now, when Black Republican rule is about to be Inaugurated, doc* It become an “uld and long tried public servant'* of the people not only to undertake, as he ha« done, to prevent Ids “ masters “ from expressing their sentiments upon the present crisis through their legally constituted representatives but also to claim for hlms«lf a privilege, that he doe, not accord to them, of exptasiimt his own sentiment* lu direct opposition to what, he U well aware, are the sentiments of the people whose “ servant he “pro. fsises,11’ but w-hofy “ ruler “ he Would “ like,*’ to be. tn other words, will the people of Texas submit to the d.etation of one mao, In the present crisis, and | acquiesces In bis “submission’' doctrines while he—! the Kxeuiive of our State—virtually contemning the wishes of those who raised him to power, will not permit the representative branch of the dtate government to coho the resistant voice of the people ?; I pause for a reply. CIV 18.
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Galveston News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 08, 1860
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