Firm Blows in the Deep South
By a Janus Correspondent from Janus 163 Texas is one of those parts of the world which never enjoyed the benefit of British rule. There were no European settlements at all there until 1685, and it was only in 1836 that independence was won from Mexico and a republic established. Nine years later Texas became the twenty-eighth of the United States, only to secede again at the outbreak of the American Civil War and then re-join at its conclusion. On this side of the Atlantic, things have been somewhat different. Ever since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, through union with Scotland in the eighteenth century and with Ireland in the nineteenth, our system of government has remained the same. The contrast is a salutary one. Happily, life in Texas today shows all the signs of a stable civilisation — even some signs that have passed away from our own country. Texan high school pupils, for example, are not permitted simply to do as the...