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.ADDRESS ON EDUCATION:
BY ASIIBEL FMITII.
ur-Lit-EitEn t ciLvrsTos.
1?jtf. The first portion ofth remark
were spcciali inlctttlcd fortlie jiupik; tht
ct)Mci2dtng portion was aiklrc wd to the
cttrzeiK.
JVie Ex3U.vitiox f She rubltcScitool
Iws jti closed; the Trustee and other
gentlemen invited lobe present at this Ex-
jtBMnftfton have liMetted witli interest to
the evidences f prefitsieticy and acholar-
stiip cxfaitadji llie pttriiis . Wehave been
idifhk gratBial: lite roault has heenltigfa-
' crsditmliie hnnoraWo toliieptipib.aad
in .the same maimer and in a proportion-
ate tlegrce to the Superintendent and in-
Btnfcfore. And this bet young lathes ami
young geHtlemca pupil s of the school
flHSEMte some itttportant reflections.
Yuan progress in your atudies your- po-
ficienBjT in kuTOBge your correct and
honorable conaHf Jiwr lofty demeanor
aaUBg persoas of virtue and good liroo-
liBgi all UicsMs redaund to tle honor of
your instructors as well as your own. If
unfortunately you are deficient in these;
if you' are idle and remain ignorant and
bcliip disorderly a portion of the dis-
credit falls on your teachers; they lose
rcpiUatioti a reputation which they prize
highly a reputation dear to them in the
uno way as tho reputation of members
of tho other learned professions is dear to
tharn. The interest then of your tcaclt-
orsikidentified with your own: yeuroed
lb their' good; your correct conduet and
aranccincnf in knowledge is their honor
and pgspcrity. Your loncliers know this;
iLjisOjpbvious and ercr-rccurrtHg a trulh
tIatthoy cannot at any tinio forgot it.
AVhat'cpnelusten thon arc we to draw
fronvlrtk feci? It is that you may be
suioJJ joung friends tliat all tho ef-
forts all the thoughts ofyour instructors
arc dirccled to your progress in knowledge-!
8n"d m good conduct. Thoydo whatever
their sars and experionco hare taught
tliom vill bj for your good. They can
lieyo no motiv.os in- opposition to Ihosc
Bdsidos. your toachora havo other motiros
and higher one& He who instructs an-
pllibVorrns to Offline exTcnt his mind the
Tojgot QrriaaKtariajng so formed is
ihciiwork.of tho-instructor.. Vo love the
-worlSofourown hands'.' -
t
" iur ulstructor3i' J6' rripntls are
.awtIng'thcmsolvcsras we liaypjust sacn"
S-
toiyourcsducation.' .JJoristliiS(all. Your
parents andfriendsespend -largcpums ofj
money for the sanfc purpose; and so im-
portant is this" Inatt&aYcrhcdSrih'at gonllt
mriLuho have no children oflhetr own
groat advantages of an education mny be
f placed within (he reach of cverv child in
this community. You perceive thon
Iidw high a value we all sot on a good ed
ucation. Wlmt then you mnyask is
Education? that something or othor which
seems so highly rutted for tho attain
ment ofwhich children are confined in a
chool-house for years for which loach-
era labor for which parents and friend
spend their money and in which all take
so great an interest as is evinced by the
examination to-day and our presence here
this evening? I might answer by stating
the usual terms what constitutes an educa-
tion rchoose now to answer in another
way by viewing tho subject in another
light. "Knowledge is pewer." A good
education by the discipline of the mind
and the stores ot Knowledge wnicli it pre
supposes or rather wherein it consists
a good education confers power; it confer
on its poecctxor respectability and real
influence. The manofintollcctual power
places the impress of his mind upon the
community in which lie lives; he thinks
for others; andstrugglc against it as seine
may his thought his wisdom in tho long
run govern to some extent their actions.
Do not imagine that I am losing sight of
tho influence of virtuous and vicious con-
duct. A good education implies a pound
moral training as much as it does storing
the mind with useful knowledge. In this
enlarged sc.nse the best educated man
that is he who possesses most knowledge
and uses it rightly is the most esteemed
and exerts the greatest influence on
cictv. Knowledge adds immensely to the
influence of wealth; it gives too; dig
nity and efficiency to labor: if tho acqui
sition of weahh is the object it multiplies
and augments the means of attaining it.
There surely may be high respectability
and influence too in society onjoyed by
persons whose education is limited but
these are greatly diminished from what
thoy would !e had these person enjoyed
the advantages of a good education. Nor
can aught else supply tlie power which
knowledge united with sound moral prut'
elides confers. Y ealtlt cannot do it.
We all we tlie worship paid to wealth.
I am not disposed to underrate the power
of riches bjt its sphere is extremely limi
ted. The rich -man of a village or small
town is an important man at home but he
is unheard of and nobody out of his own
neighborhood and when he dies no trace
of him remain. If however to weahh
there be joined a highly cultivated mind
and an active principle of benevolence its
possessor is then able to exert a witklv4
exl ended and ncntmRent influence for
gaod. It i a feet worth observation that
ainmg the thousands of names recorded
in history not ope has come down to us
M far as I can now remember for the
dV4inction of great wealth. There are
indeed two but one was a king and Ihc
other has ever been represented as adorn-
ed with a pair of ass's ears.
But I come down from the height of his-
tory lothe walk of rormnonlifc to those
matters which which arc important to
every one of you. Tlie destiny of ovcey
individual m a important to himself what
ever his Nation as if he were to dispute
the palm in hiory for military renown
with Napoleon or rival Nowtan in scien-
tific discovery. It is not probahlo any of
us will find a piece in history and yet
you for himself my young friends. It is nations are powerful ami wealthy too in
in no smaHKsamre.aKCordmgras each oue . proportion as they are well cdtieated is a
of you shall improve or neglect the oppor-j truth taught by all history. What we call
tunities now furnished by this school for . the spirit of a people and sometimes the
acquisition of knowledge. j spirit of their institutiotM is the exponent
Rut education brings in its tram iitore the representative of their education of
precious blessings still. The exercise of the discipline and development of their
tho intellectual powers is in itself a very moral ami intellectual mcuhtes; and the
real pleasure. Knowledge relieves its J physical man seems with this education
possessors from the terrors of superstition I to acquire something which enables it to
perhaps among the children before me
there may be some Newton or Franklin
some Dcmnethcnos or John Marshall.
Tto knawj? Time will toll us.
I paid a visit to the Public Schools a
low days since. There wore tho eons oil
oar most considerable citizen: there.
also were tlw sons of persons in easy
circumstances. I saw there too the sons
of those who earn thoir daily bread by
daily labor There too I saw other
children who had no fathers orphans! As-
may eye roved over them I reflected thtt
in a few years those children would oc-
cupy tho placos now occupied by us.
From these children arc to come the phy
sicians the lawyers the merchants tha
tradesmen the preachers and persons
filling the various othor callings in our
country. The inquiry naturally arose
will they fill the same stations in society
will they occupythc same social rank as
their parents rospoclivoly have done bo-
fore them? Unqiiostiohablynnt. To judge
tho future by the past the fatherless boys.
born perhaps some thousands of milos'n-
cross the ocean or the sons of parents so
parents so straitened in their circum-
stances that they would have had no in
struction in shoolbtit for the establishment
of those free shools; these children I say
bid as fair to become able lawyers elo-
quent preachers- skilful artisonsor great
marchants as do thq children-of those
who know no wanirwhich wealth tan pur-
chase. There h grcarrcalohto Tielievp
it is intjocd certain hat the rolatiyp
and the fears of ignorance. It teaches tts
our true interest and the means to attain
it. It enhghtc.-w the internal monitor so
as to enable us not merely to distinguish
moral tight ami wrong but to guide us in
that course of conduct and way of life
which may best secure happinc? Mere
and ensure a greater measure of bliss
hercafler.
Do not deceive yourselves on thts sub-
ject do not imagine that if you neglect
your youthful studies you wilt merely loc
certain positive advantages to which I have j
alluded. Your education is now going on
whether you will it or not. If you are ltot
acquiring a good education you arc as
certainly bad mental habits. If the fields
arc not sowed with good seed and atten
tively cultivated they surely grow up in
weed. The human mind has been aptly
compared to a tree; almost all depends
on the directitfbjghcn to the twig. Tlie
mind whether cultivated by study or suf
fered lo run to waste as surely grows up
takes its bent and permanent form as the
tree does. The wind docs not from its
nature k cannot remain unchanged and
unprogrcasive. You havo all probably
scenstuntedtrect scraggy fruitless trees.
They were stunted while young and will
ever remain so. There are Smiled minds.
Subsequent tudy may accm;'lih much
it judiciously pursued: bti. at e-f it can
repair only imperfectly the
early neglect or indolence I. ? no one
therefore fall into the fata! i rr .- of imag
ining that he may hereafter Income studi
ous and acquire that knon ! d v In It he
shall need through 1Kb. Tlie l-- of tune
by indolence in early youth. i a creat
loss; and yet it is the lea-f considerable.
More formidable even tnsurm untable
obstacles to great future improvement. ori
ginate in tlie formation of had habits ofi
mind in the neglect to acp.re a sound
mental dicipliac at this csirlv y eriod. A
most important part of you' hfel education
is the formation of those rr. ntal habits
which shall enable their possessor after-
wards in We to acquire easily and prompt-
ly any banches of knowledge to which he
tmay direct his attention. In early years
iteo the memory is especially active; the
tverds then learned remain engraven in
the mind through life ; and in after years
wlien tlie refiectiie and reasoning powers
are developed they bear fruits of knowl
edge.
Before leat ing this part of my subject
let me caution you my young friends
against being seduced into relying on
certain showy faculties often incorrectly
regarded as etidenecs of genius. True
genius even without labor is as useless
as gold buried m mines in the deep bosom
of the earth or asthe diamonds in the in
accessible valley of Sinbad the salior.
Poets arc said to be born such ami not to
become so by art ; and.in a qualified sense
this maxim embodies an undoubted truth.
But jve liave no instanrc on record where
any genius however great attained to a
lofty height unaided by the (labors of pre-
deceasors in a similar field. The great
actors and thinkers who have lived before
us and bequeathed to posterity their know-
ledge have enabled master spirits in suc-
ceeding times to commence in art and
wisdom where they left off. Ih the swoat
of thy brow shah thou earn thy broad"
is a true intellectual as of the physical
wants of man.
"
Ladies axd Gcxtlemen:
In the former part of my remarks those
addressed to the pupils of the school I
insisted on tho general advantages and in-
fluence in society which a good educa-
tion confers on its possessors ovor per-
sons of limited education in the same
community.in illustration of Lord Bacon's
apothegm that "Knowledge is power. "
I am afraid some of you may not have as-
santod to the opinion then expressed in its
full extent. The convenience and com-fort.-theSi
trappings of weahh aro so obvi
ous to the shallowest capacity that men t
arc apt to ovor-estimate its value. Super
positions in society of tho -children now
boorcmo-will'be greatly changed here-
after in life. "What .caus will work this
The 'causes
endure fatigue and privations.aivd perform
labors whieh the same amount of bone and
muscle in other nations is unequal lo. In
illustration of this part of mj subject I
might appeal to all history. I might cite
the petty but highly educated Grecian
states of antiquity victorious over the ar-
mies of the mighty kingdoms of Asia. I
might name the thirteen thousand Greeks
who fought at the battle of Cynaxa and
thence made safe their return home two
thousand miles over mountains covered
with eternal snows and through nations
where thoy had to fight for the bread they
ate and often for the water they drank.
This is not fabulous story. Each day's
journey was recorded by their immortal
leader Xcnophon the commander of the
J Ten Thousand; and his account has not
only come down to us tinnwtihtled but the
route was t ravelled some years since by
an English officer who verified the faith-
fulness of the narrative of the Grecian
genera) and historian. Nor did their way
lie through nations of puny savages but
of white men of the Circassian race pos-
sessing great bodily strength and of fero-
cious courage. The expedition of Alex-
ander who penettatcd to the Indus and
returned is familiar to us all. Yet the
modern Greek sunk as he is is in physi
cal form in bone ami muscle not inferior
to his sires. Need I contrast the ancient
Romans masters of the world and the
i image oflherbarian tribes then inhabiting the Seine
the Rhine and the Thames with the na-
tions now oocupying the same countries?
Learning and Science have disappeared
from the country where they once flour-
ished and hare taken up their abode in
France Germany and England which
eighteen centuries ago were hunting-
grounds for staves and gladiators for
Rome. But I come down to iron mod
ern times to our own day to facts which
have to .some extent fallen under our own
observation. A fowyeainccwe iM-held
Great Britain with a population of less
than thirty millions waging war on Chi
na which'contiuiis over three hundred mil
lions. Great Britain carried the wat to
China fought tho battles on Chme-te soil
and was victorious over that people fight
ing for their hemes. And still more re
cently in tlie East Indies they destroyed
the numerous and well-appointed armies
of the Sikhs a people of the pNire Cireas-
sianracc' white as ourselves and models
of physical beauty. But we need not ran-
sack the long-gone times of antiquity nor
roam to the distant shores of other conti-
nent' for tho illustration of this truth.
The roar of cannon and the rattle of mus-
ketry from the plains and moiintain passes
of Mexico reverberate in our ears almost
hero where wc aro sitting and attest the
superiority of the educated civilised race
over tbe uneducated half-civilized armies
that oppose ti3. Volasco the Grass Fight
the Storming ofSan Antonio Jacinto Palo
Alto the Resaca de la Paltna Monterey
Buena Vista Vera Cruz and Cerro Gor
do confirm by an-uninterrupted scries of
victories tho truth of our position. Yet
the Mexicans aro not deficient in discip
line in munitions of war norm courage:
they are fighting toofor their hemes; and
their forces havo in numbers vastly ex-
ceoded ours in every battle. When Gen-
oral Taylor said "General Taylor never
surrenders!' he uttered a truth not more
applicable to himself than to the gallant
army ho commands and to the nation
whoso efficor ho is. Ho represented the
spirit of his countrymon. Brilliant as have
been the victories of our soldiers they
havo not surprised us; we expected a
much. Have you over asked yourselves
tho cause of these victories? tho source of
this confidence wc all feel ? Have we ask-
ed ourselves the reason of that success so
uniform in fo.vor of the more educated
ever tho less educated nations? The
question answers itself. Tlie cause lies in
the higher development of the moral and
intellectual powors; in the more perfect
education of one nation which gives it
suporiortyover others. But we need not
advert to war only ; this wouhi be a most
lame result. Tho peaceful arts of lite still
prise. The roving Tartar and ComtHche JCTCoT. Van Zamk and Gn Wootf
Indian are entorprising enough but they addressed a portion of me citizentf'afVVal-
eflect nothing; it kt motion without dh-ec-j ker county in fhfa place an StUrJay feat
tiou it is activity without the guidance of Col Van Zamk spoka atom two hours
educated intellect. It k not absolutely es- and then yielded the floor with apparent
seMutl that the soldiers who fight tho bat- reraetswtee the ktaness of the hour and
ties the sailors who man tho ships or the the fact that Geo. Wood was to follow him
operatives who do the labor should be rendering Itim umrirlmg fenger fb retaitf
well educated in order to produce these
results though their efficiency would be
thereby immensely increased. But the
officers who commond.the superintendents
who direct and and still behind these the
master spirits of the nation are minds per
fectly educated; men whose moral and
intellectual powers aro developed and cul
tivated in an'eminent degree; ami though
the sailor the soldier or the operative
cannot read a word still he is animated
by the general spirit of his nation and
partakes of the character impressed on it
by 'Ob great thinkers.
Notwithstanding the length of my re
marks on this topic I cannot omit the most
pertinent fact for us in ilrastration of tbe
advantages of education to be derived
from Ihc history of our own State of Texas.
This country belonged to Spain ami Mexi-
co during a period of one hundred and fifty
years. It has been in our possession scar-
cely a tenth of the time and yet we have
accomplished more in the 15 years than the
Spanttm race did in the one hundred ft fifty
years during which they hold the country.
San Antonio and Nacogdoches were coe-
val in settlement with Philadelphia and
New York. We took this country of
Texas from their hands aitaok a wilder
ness beautiful indeed but stiH a wilder-
ness after thoir tmoscssion of it for one
hundred and fifty years. Its population
was s few raitclwros dressed in bsckakin.
who could neither read nor write; As
most important placos a few petty military
posts; its greatest almost its sole wealth
a few herds of stock cattle scattered thinly
thro' the country; the wild Indians slaugh-
tering and plundering the rancaeroa and
waylaying the traveller made the picture of
dcsolateness complete. What a change
has been wrought! This land k dotted
every where with beautiful plantationathe
abode ofintolligeat oitisens; the contttry
is scattered ovor with thriving towns; the
rivers are navigated with steamboats
where a lew years since the pun of a
steain-engino had avw been heard.
Our own harbor of Galveston formerly a
nest of pirates now receives the commerce
of the world. Many of yon follow-citi-zens
remember ten years ago there was
not a building where our beautiful city k
now rising and an unbroken prairie ex-
tended to the waters of the golf on one
side and to thosje of the bay on the other
from the spot whereon stands this church
in which we aro now assembled dedicated
lo the worship of the God of truth. And
yet we all Tool that we have scarcely com-
menced the development of the resources
of this beautiful country; that we have
yet hardly- brought forth tho first fruho of)
the power and civQmaiton we expect to
attain to. Where shall we find the explana-
tion of two series of facts so widely differ-
ing from each other? Not in the inferior-
ity of the Spanish race phistcaHy. The
Spaniard's physical organisation is deemed
as perfect as our own; but he had no
scool-hottsos he had no priming-presses
he had no education!
I am fully sensible with what inadequate
force I have presented the argument in
favor of education derived from history.
To do it justicn would require nothing
short of an entire roview of all history.
The true philosophy of history would be
to trace tho rise and greatness of all na
tions in their true source the mental cul-
tivation of the people in their education
and their decline and degeneracy in its
rneglcct.
a But tho advantages of general educa-
Ihhi would bo most incomplete were they
Kinked 'to augmenting the power and
wealth to the aggrandisement of a nation
taken as a whole. The direct and legiti-
mate tendency of the extension of educa-
tion of the diffusion of knowledge is to
bring comfort and happiness to the fire-
side of every one of its citizens even to
the uneducated.
fir-;D0ir..oi--.i.i.: .better exemplify our uoctnne. hose
.... v..v .vWMiMjtr vfvt-iatv naif tiuinjsv I
tanccofmorc woakh. But however this I conmcrco COTCK tho ocan? Wh0so
may be as between mdividual members or! manufactures and science penetrate the
tbcinocoramunUytherecAnbcnomw-'remo0tcountric3 aml ra8kc th who
t'okeas to the influence of oduca'tmn.in dnJ TO 'ributarj to. thomhringing wealth
terminine the importance and nowor-. of! comforts and luxuries from overy nook of
nations and large communities relatively cvqry continent and from tho islands ofjfhn
vent
SOMETHING NEW.
Evory ono has either soon or heard oil
Cliristfo's Magnetic Rings which aro
now so trumpeted in advertisements as a
panacea for all flic ills flesh is heir to.
They aro simply galvanic uattories on a
small scale and may havo for aught wc
know somewhat of tho effect which med
icine ascrihes' lo the galvanic shock.
it.
There were but three topics so for ae
wo remember fimhaacad inttha CohmelV
address vis: the payment of the public
debt the ilrvision of tho state and the e-
rectioa of a penitentiary. Upon the two
first mentioned he alwok with a minute-
neai and a prolixity fax axeeomng as wo
thoHght their magnitude and importance
at this time.
The greater portion of the Cofcnel'sf
speech was expended upon the payment
of Ute public debt. H spoke of five pro-
positians upon the subject as advanced
by various parties or persons in Texas
and labored to expose the faNacjr ami nu-
smndness of all except that which he
advocated. As most of these H-oposttinns
were new to as and seemed to have been
originated only for the purpose of expo-
sure we are wiNmg to admit that the Col.
effectually accemplhmed that object-
but whilst we admit 1Mb and agree with
him in the plan for the a$ustment of the
public debt we protest agninst some of
tho atgwmeats which he adduced in favor
of the measure.
Col. Van Zand Jasaerte that the nubtic
Mnin of Texan is comparatively value-
less and urges the propriety of an early
sak of k to the general government a
the stmt of fifteen millions of dollars coukl
now as he believes bo obtained for it:
fbut if the sale of it bo'sofiiBaaixt ifc-
vahieieas character must m time he as well'
known to the U. S. as k to tot and con-
seqttentljr so adrantagoota a bargain
could not be effected. We join nave tvrth
Col. Van Zandt upon th subject and
contend that the public domain k worth
the sum aSove mentioned though a largo
portion oit may be of Jnthivahic.
We know I hat at m period in tbe
United States this was a favorite argu
ment of the Whig party used for the pur
pose ot tmteating annexation but it met
with no countenance then nor will it
now.
If however Col. Van Zandt's asser-
tion bo into thaf these lands arc not
worth fifteen milhof of dottars though
the U. States may bWievc they are
where is tbe justice or the moral honesty
of hastetwag a sale of them to the U. .
in order to profit by their ignorance upon
the subject.
At the close of tho Colonel's speech
Gen Weo made somom-ief remarks in
reply though the wroiched state of hk
balh should have forhftWen the attempt
being at the time so badly salivated as to
render his remarks almost unimelligiblo.
He stated that ho was in favor of an
early liquidation of the public debt Imt
that he was opposed whilst in the state
senate to taking any actions nan tho sub
ject believing that tho dimmil of ascer-
..n...g im iuuwitH. oi innaatftoness and
tho various classes of Kafeilflie would pre-
vent any settlomont of it at that time which
would bo dqullahle and satisfactory. Wo
could not perceive in tha main that there
was any material variance in their politic-
al viej v .. .
Pfis speech on thk occasion was high
ly mterosting am elevor barsmg only a
few state anecdotes of doubtful morality
which socmed to our judement. as IiU
suited to tbe taste of an intelligent audi-
enco as to tno illustration of political ten-
ets. To speak well in public k always an
evidence of talent; but a man's inability
to speak well is no proof of his want of
talent since there is not more than one
perhaps out of every ten sensible men)
who possess thk gift; and as a gift ft
must be regarded; "the orator liko the po-
et being "born not made." The histo-
ry ofovery lectsbtive body will show that
hvhifet the fine speakers get a reputation
anu.a namo it is to tno more humble and
unaspiring members that wc must look
for labor and drudgery and for all that is
valuable in logklatistf. '
ThU has boon the caso in thk country
wc believe since the days ofthecontinoif-
tal Congress. Washington Jaflhrsen "
and Franklin were net lino spankers nor
woro thoy over known to speak longer
than thirty minutes a period sufficiently
long as it would seem to us for a sensible
man to express hi3 views unon.nnr sub
ject of ordinary interest if ha would btit
study brevity and avoid that difTuso and
rambling stylo which most public speakers
regard as. tho chief excellence oforatorr.
Gen. Wood is not a fine speaker accor-
ding to tho common accentien ofthat term:
but he k what wc regard as ofmuohmoro-
tmportanco a scnstblo speaker? sneak
ing but rarely and always "with brevity
anu to tno point.
great change?"
Ttmonc themselves. I hero nso ific word e Sreat scas? V Pnt at once to the
cducatioujn its largest ensc to embrace ) h"islily-lucatcd nations of Western Eu-
tho disoiplino tho training and develop- jnipoaiid o our own country on this con-
. r..n .i. ...?- ...... ..'. tmont. t -
hiuiu ui an tuts uiuuiues moral pnystcat
and intellectual of man
Wchavejustctwithanowaprdjcationl Jt ia no nccossarj. a g.vornor
of thapnnciplc. A slip of zmo ami onoLdonld be an orator: public spookingjforms
of ooppcr placed in contact around eithor no part of hkoflieial duties. .
or ornamental trees k saW to pre-' "e commenced our support ordon.
' . . i . j- .i i W. from a thorough conviction of his. fit-
all mscctafroin ascending them. '... .: . j..:m r.i- ";4'
Tho moment tho insect touches tho batte- conviction derived from a knowledge of
Iry it reccivos a. galvanic shook and is hi character both-public and private-
killed or-falls to tho omund. Tbi. aaiinn I He has cfcr beau so fortunate as l
iwtt'lnnniil finlnm! ll..n .... 1.. .. -2 ll. I ia ?. : I. ..AT TWWCIMQ lh(- IStPPITI Stin Mnfinnitn .fll....
ere there can' -..-. -. . ' ... ;. - .. "' .. " -! imve Itnm l.im iw t.. .-
are now at i -A w.m xtj. . t i vague somciinag wnicn wc acnue enter- cicnuy powcnui in citiicr ory or wci - "". """
(JIT "-" m ibcnOoOUOt.. Here the remarks Tonrnrlv O . - ; i ..i . .1 . m. l tl.osunnfo in tlif ririm a. nlh. .1
m willin5 Cta lrf. in -k. 0d i ta hand f ch . .nrf mtrm utf5ciUon. TOa' -.c.fc..WEcMh W..IS-&X Plto -iWr '
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De Morse, Charles. The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 18, 1847, newspaper, September 18, 1847; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80658/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.