Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-05-07
MARTINsBURG VIRGINIA, THURSDAY MORNING.
GEN. HOUSTON.


GEN HousToy, twice President Of the Re-
public Of Texas, has taken his seat in the Sen
ate of the United States as one Of the Senators
of the State Of Texas
The history Of this parsonage is full Of re-
markable events Of these his appearance at
Washington, at this time, under the circum-
stances Of the case, is not the least remarkable
Twelve years ago SAMUEL. HoUsToS stood at
the bar OF the House Of Representatives Of the
United States to be repriInanded by the Spea-
ker. Since thai ne has dismeInbered o nation.
achieved revolution, organized an indepen-
dent sovereignty ard now crowned with the
glory ola conqueror anda Statesman, he returns
with his trophies to the capitol having brought
TO this Republic territory large enough to
form what would be considered in Europe an
Empire. Fortunate in acquisition, he has
been none the less so in surrender vict cedGl-
do.
While the career Of Gen. HousroS has midi
Gated him to be something more than an ordina-
ry man, the representatives Of his enemies have
held him up as enc OF the vilest. All quail
ties of greatness have been denied him-even
courage the most common, though the most
indispensable characteristic Of manhood. The
faculty Of approprlating 10 himself the credit
of other mems merits, Of reaping the results Of
other mems labors. is the only gift of intellect
in which he is allowed to be distinguished
But such accusations as these disproye them
selves--as guns overloaded to destroy an enc.
my burst in the discharge and STAY those that
| hold them. Under all the circumstances Of
his difficult service in Texas, during the war
and afterwards, Gen. HoUsToN invariably
possessed the confidence of the Texan people
| The world looks at results. No man can lead
people through the blood and fire Of reyolu-
| ton, signalling the way by battles and victo-
ries, unless he have IN himself the faculty of
command; he cannot establish liberated peo-
pie in freedom and independence, unless he
have in himself a genius TO govern. To con-
troll such elements as made up the mass Of The
/ Texan population when Houston led on the
movement against the Mexican authority
fierce, in,ractable spirits, wiful, impatient of
restraint-was not thing for an ordinary ad-
venturer to do; it required heroism even TO dare
10 undertake it.
| Having been drawn on thus far to speak Of
! Gen. Houston, on the occasion of his entrance
into the Senate of the United States, we can
not omit to mention the surmise which has
been thrown out here and there in the news.
papers, that among the most prominent con-
! petitors for the Presidency Of the Union. the
The politicians, in power and out, may find
matter for speculation in this conjecture.-Bal
! tiplre american.
A Texan correspondent of the New York
Tribune, furnishes the following items in the
history Of Gen. Houston, who is now III
Washington. as Senator from Texas:
''An anecdote of Houston has been told me
by man, who IN his own person witnessed
the truth of it. While Houston was with the
Cherokee Indians at the time he abandoned
his wife, and turned his back, as he said, upon
civilization. he was married TO a daughter Of
one of the Chiefs of the Nation. In his suen
| pride he discharged the robes of civilized life,
and covered his nakedness with skins and
| blankets. He visited the trading houses with
the Indians, and refused to hold any inter
course with the whites. except through an in
terpreter. When addressed in his native Ian
guage, he would grunt out some Indian gut
teral, with as much grave simplicity ms an In
dian himself; and then he would sit wrapped
in buffalo rug, and hold long conversations
through an Interpreter. In one OF his visits 10
the trading houses, he, like the other Indians,
drank too deeply Of the fire agaier. While I'M
der the influence of liquor he committed an
offence, which seriously offended his spouse
The consequence was a blow up, in the NOR
ming, and this child of the woods revenged up
on him the wrongs of her white predecessor,
who waited his return in the sad silence her
deserted home. Houston then left Arkansas,
and moved to the Red Lands of Texas, and
there associated himself with another branch
ofthe same natcn. From among these, he
took unto himself another wife, in the enjoy
ment of whose charms he forgot his recent
sorrows and misfortunes. At the breaking
out Of the war he emerged from his semi-bar
barious state, TO head the armies Of Texas"