The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 144
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
merce and Trade, rather than the pride of Dominion, controls the
policy of Nations, makes War and contracts Peace.
In conclusion, Gentlemen, again suffer me to entreat you to view
our Status and that of the Enemy, not in the light of our hopes
and wishes, but devoid of feeling and with a clear and unprejudiced
eye; not for the purpose of generating despondency and abating our
exertions, but rather to excite, if possible, to still more vigorous
measures and to bring into play more potent agencies. It is true
that Texas, as yet, has not felt the oppression of this War at her
own doors. It is true that the fire and sword of the Enemy, and
the devastation of contending armies, has not yet spread havoc and
ruin throughout her borders, as in other States less favourably cir-
cumstanced. It is true that heretofore she had been the market
of supplies for our Service in Beef and Oxen, horses and mules,
adding to her wealth in reality; and that she is now becoming the
beneficient granary, and the chief dealer in Cotton, in the line of
wants of the Government, receiving much money justly in return.
But thousands of her brave Sons have already fallen upon the battle-
fields of Arkansas, and Louisiana, and Missouri, and Mississippi,
and Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Virginia, where the sword has
reeked itself in blood; where fire has consumed the family roof-
tree; where innumerable farms, once verdant in culture, have been
ravaged and left desolate; and from whence thousands upon thou-
sands of patriotic hearts beating in the breasts of Southern Wives
and Mothers, and grey-haired Sires, and pratling Infancy, have
been driven out and exiled sooner than submit to the Invader.
From these States the wail of suffering is heard, even now, through-
out the length and breadth of Texas, along all of her thoroughfares,
appealing not only for an asylum, but for sterner and more effective
resistence, and retributive Justice to the foe. Every where the
War is pressing upon our subsistance. Every where the War is
exhausting our male population; and, I pray God, that its worst
calamities, felt elsewhei e, may be averted, forever, from Texas.
But how is it with the N.'orth ? Their land is still full of supplies,
and still swarms with a superabundant population drawn from the
teeming womb of Europe, converting their armies into Hydra-
headed Monsters so that as fast as the head of one is crushed in
another springs out to avenge its loss and inflict its deadly wounds.
The waste of the battle-field is scarcely felt or cared for there. The
Commercial, Manufacturing, and Mercantile Classes at the North,
wielding the indigent masses of both Hemispheres concentrated
there, and controlling the Government to suit themselves, feel not
the War save in the increase of their gains through unlimited Army
and Navy Contracts for grain, for flour, for sugar, for Coffee, for
blankets, for Tents, for clothing, for medicines, for Hospitals and
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911, periodical, 1911; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101054/m1/158/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.