Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910 Page: 35
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and by supplicating his aid in the most important duty before
him, announce thus to his own followers that Austin was a greater
man than any of them. If that thing had happened in this
era of machine politics, Houston would have been denounced as
ungrateful to his own partisans, and Austin as a servile sycophant.
But in the light of history, their names shine like twin
stars seen between lifted clouds at midnight. What an object
lessen to those who, regardless of public interest, can see no virtue
in a partisan opponent and bestow favors only on the parasites
who elevate them!
AS A DIPLOMAT AND CITIZEN.
Never until the lamented Garrison published the diplomatic
correspondence of the Republic of Texas did this generation
know the great ability of Austin as a diplomat. He armed Wharton,
the Texas envoy at Washington, not only with convincing
arguments for a recognition of independence, but for annexation
to the Union. But there was to be no cringing supplication, for
he made it plain that when Texas entered the Union it must be
as a co-equal sovereign, retaining full ownership of all her territory,
and that it should remain as the Constitution adopted eight
months before had dictated-one-half for the people and theother
half for the education of their posterity forever. That was
the first keynote to all the future policy of Texas, which has
kept her one and undivided from the Sabine to the Rio Grande,
and from the Panhandle to the gulf.
To speak of this man in the language of undeserved eulogy
would be unjust to him, and his own character would condemn;
yet we can truly affirm that such was his intellectual organism,
his self-poise amid difficulties and the purity of his private life,
that few men in ancient and modern times have equaled him. I
have examined his public and private correspondence now in
our State University, and for years enjoyed the friendship of
his trusted friend and companion, Col. Frank Johnson, who
loved and almost idolized him. His colonists loved him as their
friend and benefactor. They named their children for him, and
their families rejoiced when he came. He had a welcome in
every cabin-and he who never knew the comforts of home with
wife and his own children, lavished the affections of his noble
nature on the children of his colonists. The purity of his life
which was revealed in his face softened his habitual dignity, and
deprived it of austerity. No ambitious warrior was he, animated
by a love of conquest-he struck only in defense of home-no
knight errant, seeking fame through adventure; his greatest tri
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Bryan, Guy M., Jr. Account of the Removal of the Remains of Stephen F. Austin from Peach Point Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas to State Cemetery, Austin, Texas, October 18 to 20, 1910, book, 1911; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38129/m1/39/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.