Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-11-02

desired as soon as can prepare it. You, gentle
men, will please present my kindest regards {,
tho Association and directors for the cstimat
they place upon my effort of yesterday. and yOr
gentlemen, will please also receive my kndes
wishes for the very polite and complimentary
manner in which you have communicated to me
the wishes Of the Directory.
Very respectfully &c,
WM. B. MooREs.
Address.
Ladies and Gentlemen -
| am but little accustomed to public speaking
and less accustomed to addressing such n con-
course of people are here congregated, and less
still accustomed to discourse upon such an occa-
sion. Should my remarks therefore be desultory.
and if as a speaker should be wanting in those
oratorical graces which fscinate and please,
your charity will doubtless excuse the ef-
fort when assure you that feel as deep and as
an abiding interest in your exhibition as the
most gifted orator could feel.
Had the oratorcal skill Of Burke it should
willingly he exhibited if might, even in small
degree, aid the great cause of production. Had
| the persuasive powers of an Everett, or Ban
croft they should all be mashaled in favor of the
interests of the farmer and mechanic. Had the
logical acumen of locke the argumentative
pyFrTs ~. '',rH. rt the pTJtCuud erUdinoH Of
81 Nuwtuu r.. should c ar4aypd on the side OF
. iIlE.tt V'.b iDllYNNtl iiNh 7'a'SN hlG va w
progress that tine 10 AN era Of improvement Is
as patent os The simplest axiom in mathematics.
Your Fair, Uu this occasion affords proof OF the
truth oG this proposition. iew years since, no
village, no tnrmy. no ONE residences. no church.
es no schoY,-hDusaa were here. Me- BGslh.ghie.
no tourl-h,ase iu. the ssiu0i5yu,i.A OF Ws:iao.
no mercantile cguIbiishmautar $40 beautiful or
aigtly cultivated gardens We're 3erB IN AL the
vide oypaase OF your boHnGloss Irar,os. But
t.,.. "a II 4. IL 4,,N.
iope skipped and played in uninterrupted securi-
ty. Here, but short time since, the ponderous
buffalo. in immense herds traversed your wide
extended sarannals, and old bruin walked in
conscious knowledge OF his prowess. Here,
little time since, the lawless savage pitched his
wigwam and slew his game careless of the future
and ignorant of coming events But how great
and how soon has change come over the land
Long however, the imheuile Mexican have claimed
his right to the soil; lorg might the degenerate
Caetlinn have asserted sovereignty over Texas,
and still the wild beast and wilder Indian would
have roamed over wild country. But only lot
the Anglo-Saxon put his foot upon the soil, let
him bring his household gods into the wilderness,
and Immediately change takes place; coon the
marks of civilization become visible, soon the
hut of the Indian disappears and all the evidences
of improvement are visible. From the fine stock
that has been exhibited on the present occasion,
races-in the superiority of breeds-especially in
the animal creation. l do not question the cor
rectness of such an opinion, and even carry the
doctrine farther, and believe in tho doctrine Of
the differen and diversity Of races even in the
human species. have known some childreh who
were so precoc"us that they were smarter at 10
or IL years of age than ever after. have known
others u gain who had to reach almost maturity
before they evinced ordinary intellect. In some
families the whole stock is good, and so in the
races of mankind. When COrtez invaded Mex-
co, when Montezuma reigned in his ancestral
halls: there was as much if dot more evidence of
progress in civilization and in all the arts of cu
tivated life than even now. The amalgamation
of the Aztec and the Castiian has been unpropi-
tious. Deterioration has marked the Mexican
race, and though inhabiting one of the loveliest
countries on the globe, yet you see race semi
barbarous, mbecile and incapable of self-govern'
ment. Other causes have doubtless been opera
ting to keep in darkness, in Cimmerian darkness,
the Mexican nation. Wherever the papal author
ity has been acknowledged, wherever the Pope
with his Cardinals and Monks have held ir bon
dage the human intellect, wherever the popish
hierarchy has thundered forth it's bulls of excom-
munication and interdcted the reading of the Bi.
BILE, we find ignorance, bigotry, superstition, in
tolerance with a host of concometant evils have
been prevalent. Wherever the Roman Catholic
Church has been dominant, wherever the DEGREES
of the Vatican have been dreaded, then you find
no marks of improvement and progress. Since
La Sale, in 1865, first landed about Matagorda
Pay period of some IT'S years, though inhahit-
ing one OF the most fertile part of North America
neither the naughty Spaniard, nor the conquered
aborigenes have made step forward in the road
OF improvement. The shackles which the teach
ings OF the Romish Priesthood impose upon the
mind units it for exei tion effort, paralises its
energies, weakens its facultihs, benumbs its SEN
sibilties, enervates the man both intellectually
and physically. The mission at the Rio Grande
and of San Francisco on the San Bernard, have
scarcely made a step forward in near two centu-
ries. The mind with all its noble and podlike
qualities and powers was as completely and en-
t,rely under the control Of the yenerated priest
as if they had possessed omnipotent power and
their fats were desrotic as the veriest tyrant
that ever ruled over a vanquished country.
But allow me to change the theme of our dis.
course to one more interesting Let us retros-
pect for a moment, compare the condition of
Great Britain 4 of century since, compare her
resources both military and otherwise, with that
of her l3 colonies. Whilst the one was rich in
men and money the other was feeble and depriv-
ed of both. Whilst the one had feet which
waited her nrmamsnts to every shore, the other
had not sailop which she could call her own
Whilst the one had al continental Europe 20 ai1
her in her attempt to tyraunize over nu, already
enleehled child, this child was suvironed bg
hordes of saragas as hostile az the mother conn
my is at a distsnee. Il Is saFy to be chivalrous
when opponents ara weak. Il 10 easy u be bold