The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, December 4, 1854 Page: 1 of 4
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llEMEMDEH
ALAMO!
VOL. 2.
ANTONIO, TEXAS, <$E€EMBE1|É4, 1854.
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aftali
THIÍ ALAMO STAR!
I* 1'i ri.lSlHU) UN KVJCRY *ATT Ur> V Y BY
J A MV.K P. NfCWCOMti.
Offiif on Solidad S! f<( I.
' I JL'JimiJI..11.'.*"* V.■ JiLUJli 11LHIM IJi-lil 1
and a wilderness befaré them. Se?enty-fo r
yours ago. t>io representatives of the old Thir-
teen Colonic, in Coi^ress assembled, thing;
l>ack dffiance to the British empire, and pro-
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.A HOME HKETClli
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The Albany^nikertiocker is ^cry happy
in itg home scenes.. Every rea4e* Will appre
cíate the trSftlifulness of what follow ;
"What is pleasanter these cool night# than
claimed themselves free and independent, -
1 cji!! that mind free which is not imprison. JJere was one of the grandest ideas that ]ias to gather with a few loved ones, aroumj ihc
in it-elf or in a M-ct, which recognize* in nil Cver had a record in the world's history, one • home-hearth, and as the hours troto Ut In-
human being* the image oK-5udand the tight* which has immortalized the American name dulge in the sweet reveries of Ilmie ? ^The
<.i his ihiiuun,^ \\\,\. h u in \iirnt. and through all time. How brief a periodm his- communion'"orthe fire-side ele vates ahd exaí^
mpathiz^h wifh nifi^ring wherever thev are , . , . .
' * U''ss than a century since, our nation
tory ! Less than a century since, our nation it exerts an influence over the heart which
travailed in blood for the existence of that gov- ^^t all the cares of the outer world can dissi-
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s with siiíh'míg wherever they are
<i- n. which cm «Jtj<• r-s pinje a<wdsJ.oth, and offers
itself njv a vvplins? viciiin to 'lie eause of man-
Knuj. ♦ * * ~ [ call that mind frc* which "trnment which is second only to great lint- "pate or destroy j it t*ths the lite in sunshine,
protect* ¡tM-lf asaoi-t the usurpation* ofyviety, ian herself in power and dominion. The en- purifying all that is foul and makj|kjbright
v filch does not cower to human opinions ergy of our i>eopto has overleaped all barriers, the places that are dark. The man ip% 0
which. Ijm-Ih it- U accountable to a tiigher law More than twenty mill lions of people repose, night like these, can retire to a -hotii<
where Love and Plenty are jgathered up, is
" Almpi i es unknown in blight sol i t ud s lie. '
t •
_.J State after State has sprung forth, Pallas-
TH V. \ i)\\ \VOKIj1>. like, from the wilderness. Cities-end back
! their busy hum. jyier broad, deep streams,
i Inn la* hi' #, whi<h rc-pecN itself too much to under one government, and yet
i c ih<'M:ive ol tie' manv or the lew.'*— nu. en w-
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in
"What great idea has ever had birth
\iuerica ? asktf Oarlyhi ; what great man has
she ever produced ? If the conceited English-
man had reflected a moment, answers to these
«{gestionis would hajie presented themselves
both from the past and the present. Give
Knglaml her due. We point with pride to
} er greatness. Her power is gigantic. Tier
in the son like a girdling
blessed indeed; llfce SyUa, heifc worthy to av
sume the title ofF«f||lO*te, and to wear it at
a crown. To rightly attuned, there
are no holier, purer enjoyments than those of
the fireside; and fireside is never brig
or more beautifjit than when the Noteml
sweeping front the snows of the north to the
tropics, are burdened with commerce. Her
inland lakes are the highways of fleets. Her"; fr0*u cume Ociifcn&hke Kden Wog
limbs are bound with a net-work of iron.— Would tlwlt all men posses
tyer canals yield up the watt^rs of the West to fire&ides. - ;
the Kast. Her nanos are reveling her wealth. . Rkugion ok thk Am^icas Pr^siOkhTS*
Her schoolhouses are nestling upon every lull- J The re ligo us belief oT the fourteen persons *ho
side. Her commerce is found in every port in have idled the Presidential chair in üie United
Christendom. Her arms are every where tri- States, as indicated by the attemmnc
km
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nee uj>oii
hedi'O of steel a-i the earth rolls around; her nmphant, and her banner of stars is known public worship and the evidence
marine darken< every ocean, and her flag. at
the mast an<\ <>a the rampart, rods out on
every breeze the wide world through. Ah!
Kngland is great, but ages have glided un
while the now hoarv fabric of her dominion
and loved wherever it floats. No, no; there their writings, may be summed up as follows:
is no land like our land, no government like j Washington, Madison, MunW, Ilam
our .government, no people like our people, no jcr anii Taylor, were Episcopalians; Je
prairióa like our prairies, no lakes like our ; ,|0tm Quincy Adams, and Fillmore
lakes,-*no rivers like our rivers, and no moún- ! Unitarians y .Mr. Van Bore was of the Duteh
tains like oor mountains, nodding to each otii- Heformect CWri'h ; and President Pierce is
er in Jffanduer from ocean, and towering up- Trinitarian CoM^^ionalist.
ward until lost in blue. — -—
___ z . • —A CcPfrrY.—The Supreme _ . _ T £
Look at America. lhe heartbeats with j 0f Warren was adjourned on Tuesday, last,^
pride, and yet her birth-tlay dates «back but | nil the business before it having been diis*
has Ihhmi rising fww the sea-girt isle to till the
world with Saxon fame. W bile Greece ilour-
(1 and fuU, while Rome was urging her
on to' tj%-C0nque.st, tho waves of the
.«(iw'eceiMfiittbil in solitude against the t , , , .. —iWt.T r.
a savatce island in the midst of the j seventy-four years! Auiong her battle-fields ¡ patched. A triendJnforms us tlu^t iome tiin*?
waters. The classic field of the one arocov- • aro llunker Hill, Saratoga and York town, of
since, dud
, Suj erior
Ige Man^^fh the C
Court Was oacMii<
movements of the globe, land ami sea, her heroism is the most brilliant
il and commerc
Warren
There are jiow eight
* We do not hlatnt the Kaglishman for being on record. Her Atftmses and Henrys have publishedjn GaUjestou, viz: 11
Jk of his C01,"tr>'' of hw wn""trw' h"r thrillc<1 thc worltl with thelr V^1W*- ,Iw I tfotlS'iSd.'Tnwá
" army and navy, her groaning Machinery, the statesmen have y ven to man the most perfect j .. |>ifpf jm Suden tier Union,' lu Oetmafh
Xamo of her statesmen, scholars, and poets, system of hunuuT government the world ha* ¡ The mimher of printing establishments, bow-
her uioss-«Dvered castles which have stood lor overseen, science, mechanic#, aud.arts, | ^ thri eof the lepers n^tned
-W . |. _ ^ r é 1^ I being prmted^t the Civilian oflico and tw#«
agei,4ier parks, green hedges, and fertile fields, she point* to stars of the fl^t magnitude. ^ Uw Zeitun^€?wl«^"^ -" • ,i*w?
Yes giveoídEngland b(nP%u©. , > ^
Now turn west\vaid where a ncqr world
has arisen. Les than four humlretT ^reiwi
* it w*a one vast emjrfre^ slumbering Hi tbfe
cñ As of barbarism. ¿1'wo handml a«l thirty
v years ago, t^Mayflew^furbd her i«1I#«i d
But weiKre digressing in the litín
of thou^it Bt^gested by CarlylM c can
sity $ftrar country ai Webster said of Massa-
cl^upetts: "Here she stands she needs no eur
logium. Famirla familiar with her history,
wi^h her state^^and (¡croes, her vast re-
s and lier f^dona destiiiy, as marked in
4 Ju 1 iua, wliatV<l«¥ MaKturmI"
^Dcr Mai^treim. Mr. Snew, is der circular
motion what gi ve WundUy of de atf*" — —
hat's der rotunity of d« arft"
nWkv the earcum$pherical twUt, cO, abich
ihfy wihd up de eqnnaxcital line. cuu't
bodder dis ehihi with atiy more of your
^oolllihnesí.^
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Newcomb, James P. The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, December 4, 1854, newspaper, December 4, 1854; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177000/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.