| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| January 8, 1861 |
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| Secession and Railroads |
| In a late letter to the
Telegraph from New York, Mr. Cone, whose correspondence in this paper,
has done so much for the enlightening of the people regarding the
political movements and feelings in the North, the past season, makes
the following remarks: |
| "One more reason for
immediate action and I have done. The internal improvements of every
description in Texas will be facilitated if the course of the State is
definitely known. If we are determined to leave the Union, if a
Southern Confederacy is to be established the sooner it is consummated
the better, so far as railroads and our general prosperity is concerned,
but let us wait, and halt, and hesitate and doubt, and we continue the
present state of things, deplorable in every sense of the word, and
particularly in a financial view of matters." |
| The Austin Intelligencer
taking this up comments as follows: |
| We like wit and humor in
season, but solemnly protest against the cruelty of tantalizing people
thus, whose property have been already so depressed and crippled.
Secession and Rail Roads!! The joke would be a capital one if on a
subject less serious. |
| Now considering the fact that
Mr. Cone has been engaged for nearly a year on business in New York
that has thrown him into daily contact with the leading owners of
Texas railroad securities, and also with parties with whom
negotiations are pending for the future progress of roads in this
State, it is certainly but reasonable to suppose that he is quite as
well informed as to the effect which the political movements of this
State will have upon railroad building, as is the editor of the
Intelligencer. Considering also, that Mr. Gentry, with whom Mr. Cone
is deeply interested, is probably more bound up in railroad progress
in Texas than any other man in the State, and considering that he
mounted a Secession Cockade in New York city, the day after Lincoln
was elected, and has, if we are correctly informed, worn it ever
since, it is but fair to suppose that the Intelligencer has as usual,
founded its ideas upon what it supposes might be, rather than upon
what are, the facts in the case. This is not the first time that paper
has done things of this kind, and though it may yet deceive some
people, still it has lost the bulk of the influence it once had, by
just such performances. |
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