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THE STAR STATE PATRIOT
" .'i < ■■
BY J. W. BARRETT,
absence of j. marshall. J
Texas . . . No?. 13. 1851
. B. PALMER the American Newspaper
ta the only authorized Agent for this paper
in the cities or Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
" " empowered to 'take advertisements and
at the rates as required by ns. His
igafded as payments. His Offices
lay's Building; NEW YORK
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>t in New Orleans, to receive sub-
cards, and collect accounts due this
paper
IT S. E. Cohén, General Newspaper Agent,
Parchar Buildings No,.12, Philadelphia, Pa.; willLs easily and readily reply to
act «a the Agent of this paper, in tho city of Phil*- . . r ,,
• • . . ■ aiifili /t/tmmnlflAalmno tvoiiln a
delphia.
GOVERNOR IN 1853.
_ •. *r-'i ■ ■ .
HOS. WILLIAM B. OCHILTREE,
Subject to the 'decision of a State Convention.
Judge of Sixth Judicial District.
fl3*We are authorized to announce W. W.
MORRIS as a candidate for Juctge of thé District
Court of the Sixth Judicial District, at the ensuing
election.
U*We are requested to announce that CHAS.
A. FRA.^ER is a candidate for the office of Judge
ot the Sixth Judicial District Court.
^ W'Otif number of this,week will close the
* iseup of the " Campaign Patriot," and we shall
to receive the names of (hose who have
■ ^ been taking the campaign_paper, as permanent
subscribers. Regardless of cost and personal
sacrifice, we have stuck to our colors, aud battled
fo? our party throughout the canvass ; and trust
that we shall now be sustained in our renewed
efforts to make our paper worthy of extended
patronage, by making it more widely useful as a
journal of news, and more varied in-its contents,
thus giving for every man'smoney " his money's
worth." We would piso request that all those
p- who kindly undertook th%receiving names and
subscriptions for the campaign, wolild forward
the respectivB amounts in their hands, with.as
as possible, to the office.
JL0*
OCT We hate^eceived a file of New Orleans
papers from oyr old frifend, Captain Martin, of
the Cleona, through the hands of our fellow,
citizen, Mr. T. G . Fferce. We ¿re blad to find
tpé Cleona at her post, and trust that, as she
to have a longer, so she .will have also
successful season than the last. Capt.
always obliging and attentive, deserves
fll of all shippers on Red river, both because
of his regularity and his efforts to meet their
wants, spijtf of the ever varying state of the
$ difficulties of the navigation.—
that Mr. Pierce h&s just
Orleans With a large and
ent of Fall and Winter Dry
iies and gentlemen'would do
. call, añd examiné fbr them*
s, as he can suit them all.
[■* Our readers will find in another column
of the address delivered by Judge Pas-
tN to the students of the Bastrop Male and
Academy. The trustees have published
pamphlet form, and we wish we could give
it is well worth an attentive perusal,
worthy judge, after giving an interesting
account of the éarly settlement of Bastrop and
its neighborhood, gives a sketch of the different
¿seminaries for learning established in Texas,
and-pays a high and well-merited compliment
to the Marshall University; we could have
wished, bowever, that the taiented speaker, had
not omitted our Female Academy, which, under
'—ices of the Masonic fraternity, does
>r to them and the town which so well
There can be no surer omen for
it and prospective prosperity, than the
suéeessful maiwtenance of such institutions in
our midst.
WHAT TEXAS CAN DO.
All is not lost. If wc have lost the presiden,
tial election, and we are pretty well decided to
give that up, there is yet something left
Texas to make her boast about. She
the world at raising *• taturs." l^gKf our
planters and farmers wish toJ^HEpPf&t, by
¿ng at our officé they eyes}
ling to feast tjjaftppetite ourselves}
specimens of the
yam potato we haye ever seen. It was grown
on the plantation of Mr. Í. N. Lasiter, about five
miles north of Marshall, weighs 9$ pounds, and
measures 25 inches in circumferenco.
This potato has the appearance of not having
reached its full perfection, and was "grabbled
from the ground, so that Mr. L. fully anticipates
finding many such, if not even larger, when he
romes to plough them up. When we last saw
Mr. Lasiter, be had a chip upon bis shoulder.
Who can take H off?
To our Healers.
Now that the campaign is ended, and the
noise and excitement of party strife* has ceased,
it is with no little pleasure and relief we return to
our former course, and again endeavor to make
our columns more varied and generally interest-
ing in their contents. We specially desire to
make our paper interesting to the community
amongst whom we circulate—the planters and
farmers of the country; and in order to attain
this the more effectually, we would remind them
that they must feel a personal interest hi the
matter. There is scarcely a farmer in the
country who has not some experience worth
imparting to his fellow-laborers on the soil, and
hardly one who would not be thankful if he
could learn the results of the constant expert
ments of his neighbors.
Now, what better or more fitting" means could
be employed than a journal coming weekly in
yogr midst, and anxious to be the medium for
such communications? How many are there
who have little simple matters they wish to en-
quire about, and which others could «and would
i? The nature of
Bm
POTATOES EXTRAORDINARY.
The astonishing yield of a single potato, under
the culture of Major J. M. Lyell, of our town, (it
producing thirteen bushels of fine table roots),
is proof sufficient , aside from the experience of
others of our most practical planters, that the
largest and best of the crop, in this commodity,
as well as others, should invariably be carefully
selected for seedlings. The plan usually adopted
in bedding the large yam in Spring, to obtain
drawings to transplant, is to split the potato in
reto turn the s] plit side down. By
the one half will always produce as
as the whole would, it undivided.
such communications would also be a guide to
us in selecting our articles from other works
and papers, enabling us to select such as would
be most generally useful. •
Again, how few planters' wives and house-
keepers are there, but could impart good and
valuable: information to those who are more
.recently settled in their midst, and who are put
to many shifts and inconveniences, and even
submit to many privations, which such informa-
tion would relieve them of ?
And lastly, we are of opinion that the young
of every country should lie made acquainted
thoroughly with the history of the land of their
boyhood and their homes. Much of the history
of so young a country as Texas must be tradi*
tionary; and it would be well that ere our sires
pass away, and the place that has known them,
know them no more for ever, they should impart
the little scraps .of history that each possesses,
to the youth around. This can be done in no
other way than through the press ; and in this
way, our paper would become valuable, and
would be looked for every week as a companion,
a kind of vade mecum, which coul¿) not well be
spared from the family firseide.
We do not think a public newspaper was ever
intended tobe the medium between the mind of
the editor, alone, and his hundreds of readers;
he cannot be expected* to hav&all knowledge, or
to know the wants and tastes of all his readers.—
and such a system would instruct him as well as
them.
But while asking for this interchange of
thought, the editor's privilege of selection and
rejection, of alteration or curtailment, must not
be infringed upon. His duty, as well a; his
interests, requires this.-
*
'•ln4 Eten Texas.''
Such are the closing words of an article on
our -first page, copied from the Cotton Plant, a
journal established at Washington,
for the development, protection and encourage-
ment of Southern interests and Southern com-
merce. ' So, then, it appears the North and
West are slowly and gradually waking up; they
have looked into the map of America, and dis-
covered that there is such a far-off country as
Texas! and they have possibly peeped into some
commercial statistics, and found that she has
some produce to dispose of, and some money to
lay out for necessary importations! And anon,
they come to the conclusion that it may possibly
be worth while to establish coastwise communi-
cation, even with Texas !
Such an admission is something for Texas to
have obtained from folks living in the North,
though they may have gone there from the
Soutb, to protect their Southern brethren. But
are the people of Texas so supine and indiffer-
ent, so ignorant of their own interests, so little
conscious of any pride of emulation, and so little
desirous of taking that place in the great con
federacy which her varied climate, her
ant soil, her immense territory, her increasing
population, and her geogrfl49|p^pwítion, as
the grt«.t highway of theJph-M,—the true me
<lium of cGnypunwyüpS'Tjjetween Europe and
the Northern¿4§at^g, and China and all the
we say^ht^indifTerent as to allow
thus the prizelfcc. which others are
ve and struggle, and whose Vjiefits others
are to enjoy? We trust not. We belfe^anot.
Surely such expressions as these are calculated
to arjuse Texans, and show them that they
must be up and doings that talking aiid meeting
together never yet, of themselves, accomplished
anything, and never will; that they must, by a
combined, vigorous and immediate system ol
internal improvements, secure to themselves the
valued prize for which others are contending.
Her railways must be built, and that at once.
This is all she needs. A good transportation
fbr the immense amount of produce she is capa-
ré of supplying, and the markets and the cash
are Waiting for her.
What has become of the Yicksburg, Shreve-
port and Texas Railway ? What is the practical
result of our late barbecue ? Is the deep and
settled conviction that we want a railway, all the
result of that meeting ? We look in vain, each
week," in the papers, for any evidence of action
in the matter. If Texas is ever to be benefited
by railways, it must be now, while the people
are here, ready to cultivate, ready to lay out
their capital,—while the markets are open to
her, and prices are good, not when other States
shall have shot ahead of her—taken advantage
of her indifference — secured the prize, and
drawn off our waiting, wanting population, to
enjoy its rich fruition..
i Difficulty Amicably Settled, without the
Intervention of Friends.
In this day of progress and intervention, there
.is scarcely a question arises, either between
national parties or individual aspirants for politi-
cal or judicial honors, that must not undergo or
submit to the modern formula of a caucus, con-
vention, compromise or adjustment, under what-
ever name you please, of those who are (nume*
rously to be found) more than willing to serve
their friends for the good of the country.
Upon the arrival of the proclamation of his
honor, P. Hansborough Bell, ordering an election
to fill the vacancy of District Judge, occasioned
by the resignation of the Hon. L. D. Evans, the
aforesaid disinterested self-sacrificing disposition
was apparently to be seen slicking out a feet, to
the most unobserving; and the question was
passed round, from one to another, Whom shall
we place before the majesty of the sovereign
people for this high distinction? And two of
our worthy fellow-citizens having, on former
occasions, signified a willingness to forego the
pleasures of their domestic circles, in order to
serve their constituents in this capacity, were
conspicuously hauled before the mind of gossip,
at least for a day or two; and we, amongOthe
other philanthropic neighbors, were willing to
shoulder a fraction ot the responsibility, in say-
ing who, in this emergency, should be, to use
an English phrase, placed upon the wool sack.
But how vain and transitory, how visionary
and fleeting, are all temporal joys and expecta
lions, in this instance, remain to be chronicled.
And now for the history: meeting with Judge
Lane, he told us, with others, that he, like Hans
Von Schnypezer Wanger, in his contemplated
visit to California during the prevalence of the
gold fever in that region, had thought the matter
over two or three times, and had finally con.
eluded that, for the present, be had no further
aspirations than the tranquil enjoyment of his
own quiet domicil in Marshall.
Our readers will notice that W. W. Morris,
Esq., of Rusk county, who is known doubtless to
most of our readers, is a candidate to fill the
vacancy spoken of. He will get, we are in-
formed, a fine support in his own county. He
called on. us a few days since, and said he had
just dropped in to have a brief legal conversa*
tion, and we take pleasure in assuring the Colo-
nel that it was very agreeable on our part. A
candidato that downs with ihe dust for his an-
nouncement, will always be popular with the
press ; neither will the devil gainsay him.
But we must not neglect C. A. Frazer, for he,
too, casually dropped in and dropped a few ot
the mint drops. These are the only candidates
of whom we are authorized to speak at this office,
at present, and perhaps all that will enter the
contest; and if so, we think the contest will be
close. Mr. Frazer is very paular here, and
wjll scarcely lose a vote in this county : and his
popularity does not stop here—it is co-extensive
with his acquaintance, which ii, in the district,
not at all limited.
ftjrNacogdoches gave Ochiltree 160, and
Miller 60 votes, for the Senate. Ochiltree is
believed to be elected, but by " a very tight
squeeze."—San Augustine Herald.
OUR EXCHANGES.
We have at length received another number
of Graham's Magazine—for November—and
its rich and varied contents majce us regret the
more that some numbers have tiissed us. The
exquisite engraving of "Agatha." and the beau-
tiful tale of the " Step-Mother," are alone worth
the money. There is also a ing by Charles
Mackay, the music by Bishop.
De Bow's Review, for Novenber, is also on
our table, containing a lengthy alíele on " Hun-
gary in 1852;" also on the lacific Islands,
Emigration, Commercial Independence of the
South, It contains, also, some valuable
railroad statistics.
A number of the Scientific American is also
before us, containing a well and superiorly exe>
cuted engraving of the New York Crystal
lace for 1853. This is a paperwhjpir ftO-Amet
rican artizan who has the leasüjesire for know-
ledge, or to be madoj&S^l^srlvith the various
scientii¡^ip!p£$!$rneuts of ha day-, should be
whilst its moderate ptice, considering
its illustrations, (only $2 per ainum), places it
within the reach of all.
And lastly, we have the first lumber of a new-
weekly family newspaper, published at Phila
delphia, under the happy title of the People's
Omnibus. There are now so tiany competitors
in this field of usefulnessjor the press, that we
know not to whom to give the jalm. From the
varied contents of the Omniljus, it seems to
carry out fully the idea contained >n its tif? and
t&contain something of interestto e.'-vn ;><...¡v.
Latest European lutetlig-c
BY THE NIAGARA, OCT' -
England.—It is reported thi >
ministry contemplate the extans ■
chise by means of an hipóme laA ui, wages.
Under this law, it is $vd ¡hat a tax is to be
laid on all incomes, as wa^s, exceeding one
pound sterling, and only tax ptty^rs are to have
the right of suffrage.
A strong organization is being bffi cted of
those in favor of voting by bajlot at all ejections
in Great Britain,^nd it is expected to be com-
plete by the time for the meeting of parliament.
Lord Combermere has been appointed lord
high constable of the tower qlf London.
Lord Derby has been elected chancellor of
the University of Oxford.
France.—Louis Napoleqh's reception has, so
far, been dazzling. His B irdeaux speech was
received with enthusiasm, and is placarded
throughout the streets of Pa is.
The first measures look id for from the new
emperor are, titles of high lability to be granted
to his ministers, and a general amnesty for po-
litical offences.
The new emperoi was jo enter Paris in tri-
umph on the 16th of October.
Spain.—There is nothing of special interest
from this countty. The jubscriptioiis for the
relief of the families of those who were killed in
Cuba during the Lopez invasions, amounted to
281,000 piastres.
State Policy. ,
At the late whig convention at Tyler; the
delegates of that body were unanimously of
opinion that, owing to the restrictions in our
Constitution, as relates to banking and internal
improvements, we were kept far in the back
ground of other States, over which we possess
in a pre-eminent degree many natural and local
advantages.
They, therefore, passed resolutions, to urge,
in future, the speedy amendment of that instru-
ment. During the presidential canvass, State
policy was by us to s ome extent neglected, and
for the obvious reason that, unfortunately, there
are but few whig papers in the State, hence the
greater necessity for energetic action.
We say, it is unfortunate, and we most can-
didly and conscientiously think what we say,
and for reasons we think apparent. There is
not a whig in the State, nor in the United
States, if living here, that would remain quiet
under the present state of affairs in Texas.
And the influence of the press is very great,
perhaps greater than is generally supposed ; for
this reason, we need more whig papers, and it
is to be hoped we shall have them. The im-
mense democratic majority in the State has
hitherto, and, it is to be feared, will still prevent
the introduction and establishment of as many
presses, above time serving, as the wants of the
country demand. Notwithstanding the (Majority
and array of democratic papers, it is no assump-
tion to say, there is at this time in the State a
large majority in favor of amending the Consti-
tution, and that speedily. There are liberal
minded' democrats enough, who will cheerfully
unite with the whigs, who make no small item
in the account, to carry the State upon this
question at any time when we can get the ques-
tion placed before the people for their action.
Many democrats have expressed themselves
upon this subject, as not only willing but anx-
iously in favor of throwing off the shackles that
have ruined our commerce, and thereby carried
its deteriorating influence into every department
of industry known to the country.
When we contemplate the rich inheritance
we have in this country ; the virgin soil, in ex-
tent large enough for an empire, its genial cli-
mate, its rivers, lakes, forests, mineral resources,
its adaptation to the growth of every product to
supply man, not only with the necessaries of
lile, but with every luxury knorn to the most
refined pteople on earth ; its adaptation to inter-
nal improvement, and the practicability of the
enjoyment of all ihese advantages vouchsafed to
the oldest man in the State, with proper and
energetic action on the part of her citiz -ns.
The mind, the illimitable mind, that annihi-
lates distance, can hardly keep pace with our
grand destiny, with such promptings.
Where, we ask, is theState in such abject de-
pendence as Texas, when she, like the Mock of
marble in the quarry, only needs the polishing
Tiand of art to show forth,the inimitable beauties
of nature.
Let her people, with" unity of purpose, act,
and a position first in the galaxy of States is
ours. The transí tion would be so rapid, that it
would astonish the actors upon the stage, and
remind them more of the fabled influences of
talismanic wands, than authentic history.
We propose now to ask a few questions, and
to reason a little, about matters upon which men
have ever beenrather sensitive, since a rule of
action for their protection has been enforced.
In the first place, why,are we, farmátaf, me-
chanics, and a majority of merch(int8, fi|rd up
for means to transact our ordinary business ?
This is not owing, as is aboveawflytf, to the
sterility of the soil nor to th#iolviubrity of the
climate, nor is jfrowing to the extravagance or
want oLaCaeigy on the part of our population.
ien let us inquire for the cause that produces
the evil, and that carries its baneful effects
throughout all the ramifications of business life,
and if possible expel the desolating monster
from the land he has already infested too long.
We trust we shall be pardoned for here stating,
what is a known fact to many, and thousands o|
others can, by impartially examining their own
breasts, have the witness, without looking
abroad, viz., that political predominance with
many is paramount, instead of the principles
that would redound to the profit, prosperity and
happiness of the sovereign people. In taking
this position, we know v;e will incur the dis-
pleasure of many that would conceal as much as
possible the vote saving disposition among those
that don't want office, and above tbem, (not in
moral honest)', would we bo understood) the
office seekers themselves.
There are those among us w'ho, with might
and main, oppose internal improvement; they
evt n oppose one in Harrison count)', to the
Louisiana line. The same class oppose the
exercise of banking privileges. And what are
the arguments employed by them, to sustain
their position ? Why, they would tell you, that
the former depends mainly on the latter, and the
latter tends to the building up of monopolies, and
that, by their introduction, the country would, in
'Hss than no time, be deluged with spurious mo.
ney^iterally bankrupt and ruined.
No\\let us examine the condition of those
who, asiá&vfrom office seeking demagogues, who
never fail to advertise the country how dearly
and sacredly tlifcy hold the rights of the good
people, and see how ^rell it comports with their
humane professions. "Thi* clans, fortunately, is
confined to the few; but, owing to the capital
they employ, they are not without influence.
Now for a few questions to our neighbors of
this county, and if they can stiH remain silent,
and vote for men to the next Legislature who
oppose an amendment of the Constitution, we
shall have, done our duty, and they will justly de-
serve all the evils under which they labor.
Do you, or not, once a year, we mean those
of you who can't command the meaus to go to a
distant market to buy your year's supply, pay to
some house in Shreveport or Marshall the mos*
ruinous prices. And who of you that has ship-
ped from five to ten bales of cotton to New Or*
leans, that has not, by so doing, lost money that
might have been realized, by selling under all
the disadvantages under which we labor at
home ? And right here, a word in relation to
the swindlers of New Orleans, and their ma-
chine. Where is the city or town over which
the stars and stripes wave, this excepted, that1 a
man is denied the right of vending his own pro-
duce. Where is your redress for the most fla-
grant abuse of power? Why, they would
answer, the law is a sufficient guarantee fbr the
faithful performance of their trust, and that thé
violation of it would be followed by the incarce-
ration of the perperator in the penitentiary. All
this sounds well and, moreover, looks well in
theory, particularly on paper.
Let us see how it will piove in practice. Sup-
pose you send ten bales of cotton to New Or-
leans, and this is all the disposable effects of
which you are possessed, and the commission
merchant should take a notion to appropriate it,
sacks aud all, to his own use, (and this has fre-
quently been the case) and you, upon such
information, apply to your home merchant, who
has such an adhorrence of monopolies, for,mo-
ney enough to pay expensed in the investigation
of this matter, would you expect to get it?
Why, der sir, he would laugh at you, would tell
you it was good enough for you, that you ought
in the first place to have come to him, and he
would have done the thing up right, and that
now there was no use in spending money, when
you had to borrow it, in a doubtful enterprise.
' We have been charged with harping upon
this subject, and will still extend our remarks.
Suppose a man to live in Marshall; Henderson,
even as remote from navigation as Dallas, and
controls a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and
that, from experience, he well knows that once
a year he can, with his customers, make his
own terms, and that his capital had annually in
creased, in the ratio of one hundred per cent,
would he, if he wished to continue the skinning
business, become the advocate of either bank-
ing or internal improvement ? We think not.
For by encouraging the former, he would
increase the chances of a railway, thereby
encouraging competition, giving young men
with a thousand dollars an almost equal chance
with the capitalist, owing to the increased facili-
ties of travel andiapid transition of merchandise.
We have noticed, with admiration, the in-
creasing interest manifested by our citizens
upon (he subject of internal improvements, and
the warmth and zeal with which they battle
against, as it were, wind and tide, deserve high
commendation. This county is able, by indi-
vidual enterprise, to tneet our friends of Caddo
at the line, and it will be done. We will con-
tinue our remarks upon the policy of the State,
at some future time, as relates to internal im-
provement.
Election Returns.
We are indebted, piiottiarity. to the South
Western for the following statement of the elec-
tion reti
Texas—Gone for Pierce.
Arkansas—Gone fbr Pierce.
achusetts—Gone for Scott, by over 8000
ew York—The city gave Pierce 11,000
majority. The democrats elected their candi-
dates to congress, the legislature, and mayor and
aldermen. Supposed to have carried the State
by*20,000.
Pennsylvania—Pierce's majority in 4he city
and county of Philadelphia is 17 >0—Lancaster
gave Scott 5300 majority ; York 353 majority>
State reported to have gone for Pierce.
\ irginia—Richmond gave Scott 850 majori-
ty ; Alexandria 64 do. Petersburg gave Pierce
245 majority; Fredericksburg 44 do. State
gone for Pierce.
Tennessee—Gone for Scott.
Kentucky—Louisville : Scott 2723, Pierce
2795. In Franklin, Scott had 72 majority; in
Fayette, 500 do.; in Mason, ovgr 500. State
gone for Scott.
Vermont—rGone for Scott.
Delaware—Gone for Scott.
New Jersey—Reported to be democratic by
1000 majority.
Rhode Island—Pierce 1000 majority.
Ohio—Green gave Scott 937 majority;
Richland, Pierce 1100 majority.
Indiana—Jeffersonville, Pierce 155 majority;
Lawrenceburg, 111 do. Vincennes gave Scott
247 majority.
Missouri—Pierce had 1053 majority in St.
Louis.
Maine—Gone for Pierce.
Iowa—Dubuque gave Pierce 253 majority.
Wisconsin—Milwaukie, Pierce 863 majori-
ty ; Kanosha, 9 do.
Illinois—Gone for Pierce.
Michigan—Detroit, Pierce 500 majority. *
Connecticut—29 towns give Pierce 1500
majority ; and 14 other towns, Scott a plurality
of 1342. Hartford: Scott 5632 ; Pierce 5986;
Hale 38.
South Carolina—The legislature has given
thé electoral vote to Pierce.
Mississippi.—Gone for Pierce.
Louisiana—Believed to he gone for Pierce.
The new constitution has in all probability been
accepted.
OCT"'tor neighbors and citizens will see, by
the advertisement, that Banks' Arcade Hotel, iti
Magazine street, New Orleans, has changed
hands- Those intending to visit the city could
not do better than to patronize this old establish-
ed house, known alike by its conveniently cen-
tral position and its unifbrm attention to the
comfort of its boarders. J
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A
Judge Paschal's Address.
Ladies and Gentlemen :—Three years before
the close of the last century, the Baron de Bas-
trop, an enterprising Hollander, owing to the*
troubles which the French Revolution had
caused throughout Europe, solicited the author*
ities of Spain, having the government of Louisi.
ana, for a district of country on the Oauchita
river, whereon to establish an asylum for a num-
ber of his exiled countrymen.
The petition was granted, and some initiatory
steps taken by the Government to forward the
enterprise. It was however destined to defeat.
For the same sanguinary revolution which con-
kvulsed all Europe and shook the low countries
to their centre, involved Spain in a war with the
mighty Corsican, who in his brilliant career
dealt out Kingdoms and crowns to monarchs of
bis own creation. The fair fields of Andalusia
rán#pith the blood of her brave hidalgos; the
Peninsula wars shook the sceptre of an
monarch in his trembling
protect his possessions at
Castile relinquished to
(who ceded the same t
vast country from the
Mississippi river—Ike
which hafe since been
ereign States, and a
aborigines.
The inhabitants who before
ral allegiance to distant
"God save the King" no matter
crown, were, by this act ofci
clared citizens of the independent
public.
Whether or not our free
tions were, distasteful to the ti
he foresaw in the change of
tothe speculations which oth
tempted in his name, it is certain
rule of the Spanish Viceroy to
the American Eagle. For
obtained from the Spanish ai
nio de Bexar a fconcession for fc
land jnst where a gushing
water bursts from the -mountain
springs swell into a torrent—and
the blue ether, tumble into the
ful and swift flowing Guadaloupe
And it is a coincidence then
ken of the adventurous
20.000 acres of land thus
Ouachita river, fbr wheat growing
as a pasture fbr Mexican herds and
should, in less than two score y<
have been selected by a number of
man princes as the BraunféU fbr their
men in the new Anglo American
the centre of South western America
At a later period the footsteps of the
Bastrop preceded thosmarrh of
Tn 1820, the first pioneer
views. Moses Austin, traversed
from Nachitoches, in Louisian
de Bexar. Passing over the
sloping hills, the ocean prairies.
by the wild buffalo and mustang, and
wilder masters,, the unconquered
able prairie Indians, he beholds, after days
foil, the ancient city of San Antonio risins he.
f^re him like an oasis in the midst ^>fthe desert.
He enters this only seat of tottering Spanish
power east of the Rio Grande, and explained
his object to establish a colonv of Americttlis
within these vast uninhabited wilds.
The Spanish Governor, the "little lord of all
he surveyed," for want of a passport always so
necessary in the lands of absolute de'spotian, or
dered Austin immediately to depart from the
country. * * •
Austin had known Bastrop for' twenty years
before, in the land of their mutoaljadoptionj and
his influence J he first emp
the foundation of the colonial system,
after yeSf#^so much controlled the
Texas.
The heroic part
revolution which sepai
the many officers, state a
ed under the government, his
been given to the service
his name to a more i
was ever conferred by the
Republic. To the Texi
fill, was lefithe'honor ofi
pality of Mina into the country
giving to the beautiful city, on
beautiful Colorado, the same
a name which characterizes it
as a pioneer which leads
ments. The praiseworthy
8titutIon have erected a
more durable than changi
a seat of learning which may
Mater of some historian' who
fading fugitive materials of «country
ful than any other
as is that country.
It is so, whether viewed at the
already alluded to; or when less
sou's threwloff the j"
declared their independence, and
standard and flag oT the ! .one Star
among the nations of the. ei
voluntary civil revolution, ti
light, but moved forward in the"
came one in tint firmament
confederacy. Curing the short
brotherhood, the light of the star of
not been dimmed or obscured. Her*
was sufficiently important to pr
which gave new glory and lustre to 1
can arms, extended the^írea rif I
shores of the Pacific, wrested from I
two territories which contain the
Dorado of the age. brought the 1
within our commercial grasp,j¡md. in a
marked a new era in the history of civilization.
Nor has it dimmed the well-earned glory of
Texas, that when contending factions hi
shaken the integrity of the government, t
ments of discord lowered in a threatens
zon, and brother was jnst rea
brother, Texas nobly offered a part of I
tory on the altar of peace ; and the
of her boundary became a link' in the
mise measures, the observance «if wbi
bind stronger and stronger the fraternal ties of
our glorious union.
***•* :
When xv« consider the precocious growth of
our wide-spread country, Over which a popula-,
tion from every dime is spapelv scat
have reason to congratulate ourselves that the.se
necessary advantages to youth hps* not I teen
wholly neglectod. From tht> Gulf shore to the
borders of Louisiana^and Arkansas, firm S;
Antonio to Nacogdoches, ih country schfl
house often (but ah! too seMom) greets the «
of the traveler. And in the fi.mduig at
ising schools of H5p higSor ordrr,
passed any other wwiítcte.
The ancient Mission <>P fnSIiW:
the monopolizers of l arwii|r dnri-tg"
ase. the nrrVr of F.tn
donated to tn friends of pd¡;.-
the indefatigable Prenbyterinr
Jfllory high school is already in
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Marshall, J. The State Patriot (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 13, 1852, newspaper, November 13, 1852; Marshall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180401/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Harrison+County%22: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.