Una storia completa del Texas per le scuole, i college e l'uso generale. Nuova era All'Inizio dell'aistoria del Texas. A partire da quella data sono stati ripristinati i metodi di ^^^^governo ordinato, politiche stabili e buona pross-ress, così a lungo interrotto dagli eventi preoccupanti della Guerra civile e della ricostruzione. È universalmente vero che gli annali di una terra pacifica e pro-perosa sono semplici e pochi. Il flusso scorre senza intoppi e così veloce che, come un rier di cui Cesarparla nella sua storia delle guerre galliche, possiamo scarcelytell in quale direzione scorre. Sono stati inaugurati i nuovi ufficiali di Stato

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A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . new era in the Beginning of ahistory of Texas. From that date the methods of ^^ ^^^orderly government, stable policies, and healthy prog-ress—so long interrupted by the troublous events ofthe Civil War and Reconstruction—were restored. It isuniversally true that the annals of a peaceful and pros-perous land are simple and few. The stream runs sosmoothly and so swift that, like a rier of which Caesarspeaks in his story of the Gallic Wars, we may scarcelytell in which direction it flows. The new State officers were inaugurated at mid-night, January 15, 1874. The scene was dramatic andmemorable. The Representative Hall was filled withthe two houses of the legislature and assembled citizens ;the corridors without were thronged with the volunteermilitary company of Austin, —beardless boys in gay uni-forms, with glittering muskets, —while among them moved afew stern and grizzled warriors, whose bravery had been testedon many a bloody field of the Civil War ; below stairs, in the 389. Richard Coke. )90 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period III. Second Period of Statkhood 1874to 1897 The Four-teenth Legislature dim hallways of the old capitol, was a motley mass of negroes, State police, and desperate politicians, muttering defiance, butcowed by the certainty of disaster ; while on the rocky slopesof Capitol Hill, in the starlit night, sentinels stood in silentwatchfulness, as messengers of good or evil tidings came andwent in the darkness. But the critical moment passed in peace, and the government of the people claimed and held its own. The new legislature went to work with energy and intel-ligence. They found the State burdened with a debt of neftrlyfive millions of dollars, and taxes at two dollars and thirty centson the hundred. The corrupt Twelfth Legislature had votedthe International and Great Northern Railroad a money subsidyof ten thousand dollars per mile for six hundred miles of road, secured

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