From the Houston Telegraph |
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March 26, 1861 |
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Removal of the Capital |
Our Austin correspondent
mentions a proposition to remove the seat of government. Should this
proposition be carried into effect, the new locality should be
selected with a view to accessibility, and also to an immediate, if
not a present connection by rail and telegraph with the other
Confederate States. |
There is no point now in Texas
as accessible to every other point as the city of Houston. Its
railroads extend in every direction. In a year or two more, scarcely
any person in the State will need to travel more than seventy-five or
a hundred miles to get to a railroad terminating in this city. The {Houston
Tap &} Brazoria road already reaches the heart of the lower
country. The B. B. B. & C. {Buffalo Bayou,
Brazos & Colorado} Road, pointing to San Antonio, is now
within striking distance of the whole West. The Washington county
road, pointing to the centre of the State, can be reached by all
Northern Texas between the Brazos and Colorado, while the {Houston
& Texas} Central is rapidly progressing to the heart of
Northern Texas, affording facilities to all between the Brazos and
Trinity. The Houston{, Trinity} &
Tyler road will give us a connection with all the counties East, and
bordering on the Trinity, while the Sabine Pass and Nacogdoches road {Eastern
RR}, via the {Texas &} New
Orleans road, will open all the balance of the East to us. It will
also, in a year or two, be the depot for all foreign travel, having
the only road that will connect Texas with New Orleans, the emporium
of the South. |
If the seat of government is
to be changed, the city of Houston is by all means the proper
locality, and we invite the attention of the people to the facts as
they exist. |
But, should this be done, we
must ask for a constitutional provision, prohibiting any of the broken
down politicians of Austin from practicing politics in the new
capital. Let the capital be removed away from them, and if they follow
it, let them come, pledged to abjure politics, on pain of banishment
forever. |
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