The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, July 1930 - April, 1931 Page: 148
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
since night, the broad full moon have [has?] just risen above the
low range of eastern hills, tower, turet, and battlement, flood, field,
and plane, are bathed in an ocean of silver light, along the Almeda
here a gap groop, are moving to and frow enjoying the balmy
breese which sturing the branches of the tall trees above us is
causing the moon beams to fall in every varying chequers, from
whence comes that strane of bold martial music; now bold and
clear, now dying away in fitful cadence, as the night wind lulls.
It is from Alamo, see through its wide portals, and along the
arched gallery, the masqueraders in their quaint garbs, are noisely
gliding, now glancing beneath the light of those glaring torches,
now disappearing in the dark shadow of the stately columns, be-
neath yon grove of china trees whose modest purple flowers, are
loading the air with delicious fragrance, the young of both sexes,
are enjoyed [engaged] in their favorite pastime of dancing. There,
"Galy sounds the castinette
"Keeping time to merry feet."
Listen ! hear you not from yonder clump of orange trees, by the
river side, that soft and plaintive strain, some cavalier has stolen
away, guitar in hand, to pour forth his passion in music, his theam
the darkeyed maid who has tremblingly and breathlessly stolen to
her lattice above to catch one glance of her troubadore.
This was San Antonio, all was life, gaiety, and happyness, what
now is San Antonio, echo answers what? What has produced this
change, has an Angell of desolation been commissioned to ruin
this once fair spot and make it thus desolate, yes, and point a skele-
ton finger to these ruins, and pronounces his dred name - would
you know it? 'Tis war! The scourge of nations, the parent of
misery, the destroyer of Gods works, the defacer of his image, the
school of vice, the enemy of heaven born peace, the severer of the
ties most dear, the foe of virtue, the cousin german of hell.
18th Oct. With a few general remarks on Texas, I will close
this long and I fear tedious letter, it is totally destitute of exciting
incidents and pleasing discriptions which is to a letter or journal,
what caane [cayenne] peper is to a Mexicans dinner, the northern
portions of Texas is but indifferantly wattered pine and oake
barans, not two broken for agriculture, were the soil any other
than a light vegetable loam and sand, but such as it is, it is soon148
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, July 1930 - April, 1931, periodical, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101091/m1/158/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.