The Texas Republican

COL. WARD IN REPLY TO MR. MARSHALL.

HON. D. MARSHALL,

Pro tem Editor of the Flag.

Sir: In your issue of the 29th ult., you either do yourself and paper gross injustice, or you give me too much importance by devoting nearly two columns of your paper in replying to a brief note addressed by me to you, which note simply "requested you to discontinue my paper in the future," together with the reason which prompted the act, and it closed with a piece of well timed, and I thought, good and friendly advice, which I had no doubt you would highly esteem and profit thereby; for you may rest assured that it was a kind and friendly spirit which induced me to warn you against the hidden but dangerous rocks on which you appeared to be fast drifting from your former political status. But it seems my good intentions have not been properly met, or duly appreciated by you; on the contrary you have taken it in high dudgeon, that one of your oldest subscribers should presume to think you had changed your political position a little too often to suit him, and had exercised the right to stop his paper--and give you a parting, friendly admonition for the future, and that gratuitous, too, and for your own especial benefit. Now if this is the thanks I am to receive in future for "kind intentions," catch me doing another favor for a Know Nothing Editor, will you? You in another place you seem to repent in part for the ill turn you did me, and acknowledge that I had conferred on the Flag a substantial and lasting favor--and furnished you the best campaign document of the season. Now, if this is true, and you are uttering your candid sentiments, why call me by so many ridiculous and high sounding names, as "old Democratic Mogul Tyrant Jupiter Tonans Political Apollo, Disunionist," &c., and drag me before the public as one whom the gods had made mad, and then abandoned. Now if ingratitude is a crime, are you not guilty? If stopping the Flag is a substantial and lasting favor, you have, to my knowledge, received several such favors lately, and to whom you are still due the acknowledgment. The best political document of the season Good! I am glad you have found something to create a stir generally, for I thought for a talented editor, you were getting awful dull and prosy. And besides, if ten or fifteen lines of plain simple truths, and friendly talk will effect such wonders for your paper, and party what would be the result, if you were to publish the Democratic platform where squatter sovereignty is repudiated, and Mr. Breckinridge's late Kentucky speech? Are you in earnest or joking when you say I am the head and front the foremost man of the Douglas party in Harrison county? You are mistaken, you do me too much honor to others better known to you, and your party belong that distinct Union. If there are any disunionist in the county they are only to be found in the K.N. rank. If they have left it I am not advised. One thing I know they are not in favor of a sound constitutional democrat for President. They are among your best stampedeers and test liked you party have always given them place and position and confidence to do it through some then may tod vote yaot buals foiaa I ast botly adsted in the Flag on acuht o M Iedeeq tter soveregntyiyet y dare get 6dmiailthemdeniom tadare ho)wghteauet Igttas the mmrge thy ate seat me nth mr an a I ei even th sghAin Jaal dd rale td seide they tght tai I r paigh de smat for the -eaah whad a ald t lik tw edred sword asd nstead of pradoings takting hum nirgs coubds wnld a sr a to arnlal arp Now I kaow tall well t wil toe coh-ibred highly pre ompteous d me by some at iea-t to dare rooss sw ed with the searred eloqgent pangtnt ready witted wrd hivalr as editor I the I lag wh wra e grareotly his g dhet baplets woni thet felds an! leo sums Yet stmph justie to mya and ts the Phem tal patly whach is aea ed thrugh me requiue semet hg at my hatde eten df I sanid wreathe another garland tor y o' regel eT an B tt the mater before ds What oo earth has the patbe to de w Uo where thn Elts f the .Iag a my oi wroo lo wsthethe state whab lo aas boi cnla aed to te squae mies and more ne ree thas that a winb Iwa aro or what d thay ce aeat the tomier of bs a "r 1i s1" " nii 'rr.t'rs of ughvr ary it ull Q opine titlars .l y berr an.) to h.rt, unir.s lturs.in · Dr d ix tie, tad. Birlu y wr bunth t"arolu:n lui" ' s yis't tha thirtia i to th uf ua; yri h w.a o, d "nd puuisi tir g'orr, wili he jhe hi tui the gullen e,g, whr, h 1ry prl ned him t.n tuluuias ntnl ; qhfut wui , dij ui-na shi ig-t; .tl ca 2 pu t s..t. …r'.1 .. I]4. }.5 a ,1.:,"sw. I am I t ~iently l6:-I shi . I w" ju' hr- Rir' ni ll ywi-tid ou Wh uuniter un sut n ;, n * nrll i- i'a vainc" of " yoh,t toun plujwrts." alt th" ui rate 1.t wd, ur bear that mslier re-lireusetd on "r iy toital re sajeh. " Mume inlght b' per-onaly wiore 1' s-uiar.' musld thut the juyAilat EitiEot o4 thr Ftax u (he mcma malle ca!paign of J-if. drirute d we for the L.agis. latur by uue vute, I tnbng n: k on the d iy of theilo - trow, aid could nut excribo the lipbt yf yoltug [or myulr. had I tren m incliurd, as a dslugurlud casdidate of yaur pusty shit year disl. Iut yow may " he in (ally wy owu mpual in aay and sll the rlati s of life?"' Wluever swerted ottwrwir " On the cunlrary, lad I beo can w'tr) In th" preigiera, 1 womull huve une-Sly mimiird that )'l wote * bea..i Juoulder In yutd mr w many of the " rla. trou.Tiitse," for wtwtbrt vit d. i aw Prt. Fstitoy. Oha: tar, Lrgi-lat-r, or ivn Att.rney, ti aiy u.dling of pultt-ciad, yoy arr sus genrris, nuejua:te'l snd luuluita: llr, A. I'ort aul E-libor. ptubatiy the in-mtetlulgrut raye on )uue krtis bare Wen she dalrud, aud wtvrd t ilamlue the tuitca or many, nh;s wotuturing--in 1gthotuue r, Amdsr tueir wet How ne sm aii head coald carry all ae kuew why this model writer bas never atta ined a nationnl fame The ald Patrjot. the Marshall Meridan anp the Flag each have boene the press and smpress of his genigs: yet thr two first sikened dwinded anid ded uhder his tosterng care totwithstanding the first was osaaioniy eni vened with harming verses. dnd sonl strring national sougs One I remember comtete ing in his most happy . id c mservative strain What ' burst this gloriogs U'nion up. And gotopollioltriggers: Jut for the sake of A pasel ol ematr ipated Niggers Sam to the People." In the last number of the Me riduan, was found to be a lasting quletas to that inde pendent and literary joagnal whieh the able. learned and versatils Editor with all of his talents conld never resnseitate. The Flag. yey say Is doing a splendid haslness Now be it wo bat if it fails to give any sigus of vitality in three months from to-day unless it makes another change. don t accuse me of judging the futare by the past fot we all know it is in the hands of him whs brought Satn before the People." The Editor of the Fhag seems to th nk it was ineum bent on met show its recent vare us politacal gyra tioas its uncondhtiomal sulmission to Abolition rule 'and wherein"iteddtrines were alject. saap tall aad degrading.Now It he comstders I wil be chonking his windows with guineas" I wip give him the beuefit of the eNperiment and be is wele me to the gitteciag poud What polticat pasitons has the rag ccupued la the last six months And 1 will a k aii witshave mad it to bear witness to the act Laat a taat tene it has adv cated for Pees dent Pllm re thea I a too sext Bell a w ell a Daag ba and ia t d a rot Lae du ahd the Uubo F w the sake of thw I ni a alone ym have adopted cadopsed and hosted to yoahr masthead two B llevecett and two Douglasites the first two afi and the last two sqaatter soverelgns. therely endopsing aud advoca ting the odions doctrine of squatter sovereignty which was so loathsome to you and your party till recently. And when. I would ask. did thas county repudiate its own noainees for electors, and adopt in lien of them Paschal and Robson? I take it that these are rapid " political gyratjous" with a vengeance. But when a Southern journal. pubtished in our midst. in the largest slaveholding. county in the State, advocates a permanant and consobdated Union. by foree. in the event of the cleetion of Lincoln. the candidate of the higher law party. nnd that the South must snbmit and remain in the Union, by force of a numerical ma jority. no matter what may be their anecedents, or their sabsequence -a party whose first great leading principle enunciatct in their platform, is " afl men were created equal: that they are eadowed by their creator with certain nhaliepnble rights, that among these are life. liberty. and the pursuit of hap piness," o man who is at all conversant with the pecullar dogmas or the Biack Republican party, but fufly understands what they mcan, aad intend to ef fect nnder this broad and indetinite enuuciation ; thus endorsed and solemnly put forth for the flurat time in a
crurale stelost the Soulh, the Conrtityttop, anxd equality of the States in the Federal Union. Who, then, in the South is so abject, so degraded, se debased, to every sense of social and moral feeling. that would not prefer death or disunion, to a social. physical, and political amalgamstion with the negro! Do not their -great leaders and exponents of their principles, Seward, Sumner, Greeley. &c.. teach ana advocate the abolifion of southern slavery thecqual ity of the negro with hIs owncr- the barbarism of the South. and the amalgamation of the blacks and whites, after they have freed the former, thereby creating another Mexico.a Hayti, ora Central Amer Ica fn these now flourishlog and happy States? Is there a man in the South who knows aad under stands the causes whicb led to the Amere n Revolu tion, the history of the rebellion and secession of the Colonies from the Mother country. who cannot see and comprehend at a glance. the great difference ex isting between their then, and our present political stata- They were not a free people but a mere Colony of subects governed by Great Britaln: yet they elaimed and assumed the right to exercise and ehfoy rights and privlleges which they had never in herited nor possessed. and whis h Grent Britain had exereised over them for centuries past. The griev ances they complained of, and the tatural. legal, and political remedies they had for sedress were altogeth, er imaginary, in cotnparison to those now possessed by these free and independent States of the South. Ir the civillzed world at that day considered the Col onies had just grounds for rebellion, secession, and disru on of the political ties which bound them to the mother country. what would It say should free. sovereign. and mndependent States. whose polit-cal rights had been cemented by the blood of their fath. ers. gaaranteed by written constitutions and cnfed crated in a Inion of their own choie. for the protee tion of the especial interests rights and property of its citizens in each one of said States should they think proper to resnme such powers delegated. after they were convinced of the shability of the delegated Agent to protect their rights, or a manifest dispost thoh on the part of said Agent, or trustee to violate the letter and spirit of the compact thas formed and thereby place a mark a brand, a degradation an in famy, on one halr of the States Iu this confederacy tore hamilating and lasting than that which God placed on Cain when he banished ham from his slght a wanderer upoh earth' Every day brings gs accumu lating ntethgene, that this sectional higher law party. are gatbering strength in he North, Ea-t. and West and eobsentrating within its feti foids fa naties of every bue and grade, with the avowed aim to grasp the s eptre the purse and sw td so as to effect under the semblan e of a law fanati s Juay pass and misguided men who adore thr Union beth North and seath may approve tamely submit to snjary ih-nlt oppression and degradaten: and with boathtg sycophanoy nck the band that deighs to in flast the blow The qoet then nat raliy arises. is a g vernmeot foated by vereign states for the pro te too of tho lives and pepeaty of the citizas of cacn-and aing rom bnahiity, or deign. tty st ta jests aud designs 4 ds tramep. lenge warth pou ervdg Yos asst ad advoafe in yomr poier that ur po ainai U as i pafamoant to ar t nsttatoon on Lt a ad vdoal right aed taat the clestih af . Ds k diegdaas Pre ad at the I s boy thp pas f a aigtin daly ial wews annoaeed oy ui m ds1j1 graand- for e dd rdabich In tana d de i b id t is Jost groahds foq desulu Li u ahd that tla pe ple o the sauthern state w eld rety the fie ty tasy aheiibedtey woyld derad Lie mapess tai pateto ao esty thy wouid je Las aad d das Lact own manhood, and sarrende: Lara p tehy (oahd ta ad dnd fat were they toait qst ad do ye tatt t n tis last rist wa davep in thaur petacad da kles was i Wenid band Uam t. pvety ppeaka Ealgmy abdaatiaism Atd c4 the yi Iand simimim dotres ys a te a theravae the pjet d yout patly ot agares tat of tis Pharsiat 4 aly -erys 1. creal, dv totas sdh at4 gife ed an9i 1ihta th1 th aods sand thim liaat Bhay bave me feok tid a the th aae ahor y 6gttng th Lttks uhy, Ahe Y aaleApett hae thep ralhy caled tde t :'u's. It eai bette tat th rah kaii 1 : t4 w [r: tu syatry lp sj: yniy fylwt, biot nat are m her wad ani eenvaisrve throres a ii rend in toan the ester rt ablh cnrinb Ue s and eweo fnn the fared the rart'sad taor) 1 interminatle fres whl h lie sfoaldertng aid srin to it cntrnl chamlers aot hanss E 4 people a t the Negre of the Iire and tea delt bot aol ery bgtr hs ass ia tis L'ade heall tprra. rathe thandagie thn valam she ld be me le o the tr I hetter o garlt o the t matt atin a that a sbgle nege shoald e Laken o'th at the onent I the ownee fom taw tae of eIon held of the santh Now. in con Loafon, shonld these crude and dejolnt ed view-faruish js additenal nuts ts crask ya can cradk them at yonr convenietee you can pisk tem ishen yon hosse and digest the m at your lesr ure, for whs ther in the charas ter of Iyrant. Jopater Jonans Apctlo, Pemocratis Mogul. Presadent or simply W R D Ward Iassure ya I hase nostem ash for the feast. but had rather assiet as pall bearer at the funeral W.R. DWARD Destmu rive Fie at Foir Smim The followang letter. from Lerey Coduer, to the My Kinney Messenger, dated Sep 3oth contains an account of a destrue tis. fire at Fort Smith : Gasnkmes :-A fire oceured lere this motuing in Satton & Spring's Brick Block, three deors north of the Tumes flice, on Walnut stret It broke out in a sccond story in a Bilbard salooh trontng Garrison's Avehus The buill ing was cntirely copsumed, as also the City Hotel, Times oflice, and the entire tlock The loss of the Times fice was almost total Abont g0 fonts ot Job ty pe. out of g5o, were saved A power press, and five card and hand preses wire d stoyed. The loss is cstumated at stoo o0o Several per-ons are pyissing. and it is feared they are cohsumed in the flares It is not known whether the fire was accidental or not Garriseh Avenue is tull of goods from tho differ ent stotes " State Elections have bee n beld on are yet to be held. as tollows: Cahfor nia, on Wednesday. Sept 5 Maine, on Monday, Sept. 10 " Georgia, on Monday. Oct. 1" Misstssippt, on Monday, Oct. 1 South Caroluna, on Monday. Oet 8 PennsyIvania, on Tuesday, Oct 9. Ohio on Tuesday, Oet 9 Inidiana, on Tues dav. Oet 9 Minnesota, on Tuesday O.i 9 Iowa, on Tuesday. O.t 9 Presidentiat electton in all the Sates n Tiresday, Noveinber 6 A segto man teliarng to John. E Iae Daglasyaile tn this cuunty ated ana ber ne gro, owhed by the sane gatheman, m Saturday. the 29ih ult He was loadged m jail the day lollawing by rder of eemmytment froin the exan ming magisti ste. to await his trial at the next term of the Distriet Cout - Landen Reporter DIED, On the sth ist at her re-ideace neas "Marsbafl Mrs M ARY ANN HALL. in her 4l-t year. th wife of Col M J Hall Obitaary next week. In Marshall on Monday eveuing the sth fnstant WHLI IE ARThUR soM or Dr. J. B and MP I.V LANC ASTEK, ae4 three years and 2I days Sineerely do we sympathsge with our friends and neighbors in this sad dispensation of Providence. which has takeu from them their charming hittle boy But thugh sad the part ng h w solacing the thought that hittle Wiflte has left a world of sickness and pain, and gote to one of neverending happiness He knew no gulle. He saw only the beautiful of enrtb, aud then frit astee), Yow " He t streylur, Hh 1ynx. Wbere divinor bicrzca bow. io tn ninging. Iu Ha Jy'n( of the angel Jyrm I Kaaw."