The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 184
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184 'Ixas l, istokical Association Quarterly.
Harris clerk. Others from Harrisburg were Mr. Doby, George and
Isaac Iiams, James Brewster, Miss Isabella Harris, sister of the
four brothers, Lewis B. Harris and several young ladies, among
them Misses Elizabeth and Jane Earl. Mr. McDermot, the courier
who had carried the news of the battle of San Jacinto to the
Sabine River, was there. He was young, handsome, and sociable,
and was quite a hero. He was electioneering for Sam Houston and
Mirabeau Lamar. When the returns came in Houston was elected
president and Lamar, vice-president.
I had been to an election in Harrisburg in the year '33, when a
delegate was elected to represent Coahuila and Texas in the Mexi-
can Congress, but I don't remember the names of the candidates.
The next election I attended was at Mr. Dyer's, when delegates were
sent to San Felipe, in the fall of '35. W. P. Harris and C. C. Dyer
were elected at that time. That election for president and vice-pres-
ident of the Republic of Texas, September 1, 1836, was the last I
attended. There was no drinking or fighting. The ladies spent the
day quilting. The young people began dancing at three o'clock
and kept it up till next morning. ** * Mother had ripped
up an old silk and made me a ball dress. It was one she had before
she married, and it had been left in the old blue chest that was
hid in the bottom when we ran away from the Mexicans. That was
my last ball at an election. After that there was too much whisky
drunk for ladies to be present. * * *
October, 1836.--After the Ball.
We were going to school. Mother was very anxious to move, and
would have gone to the United States, if father had consented.
Congress met at Columbia the third of this month. President
David G. Burnet retired from office, and Houston and Lamar were
inaugurated.
There was a great deal of excitement among the people in regard
to General Santa Anna. He was a prisoner, and there were some
of the Texans who would have had him shot for the slaughter of
Colonel Fannin's men; while others wished him sent to Mexico,
under promise to acknowledge the independence of Texas. There
had been severe threats made against President Burnet, and he was
glad to become a private citizen. Father said that Mr. Burnet was
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