Litchfield enquirer., 1859-09-22
GEN. SAM. HOUSTON

"Occasionap writes from Washington to the Philadelphia Press:
 Just at the time when it was believed that the star of Sam. Houston, of Texas. was passing rapidly from the political Armament, and losing its lustre before the blaze of other luminaries while yet the accents of his orna- mcnted farewell speech :o the American Sen ate finger in our ears, the news from his own State comes in upon Ills that he has been elect cd Governor of Texas after all animated con- test, beating the regular Democratic ticket by a signal majority. Here, now, is another man whose experience may be said strikingly to il- lustrate American character, and upon whose eventful life it is profitable and pleasing to dwell. A century hence our chil,lrens chil- dren will read of Sam Houston as to-day we read of John Smith, who was rescued from the lndan faggot by the Christiauized maiden, Pocahontas.
 It is rare to read the life of any one man so crowded with political honors, and so identified with political reverses and trumphs. If your readers will recollect that Sam Houston be- gan fls early life among the Cherokee Indians; that subsequently, he was clerk and county au- ditor in Tennessee that he kept school that Tn lsl5 he enlisted in the army and served under General Jackson in the Creek war :; that he was wounded ard rose to the rank of lieutenant in that war that he studied law lh Nashville that he served from 1923 to 1927 as Il men Der of the National House of Representatives, from Tennessee that he was two years the Governor of that State {: that he resigned that office, went back and re- newcd lis residence among the Cherokees in Arkansas that he went to Washington to protect the Aborigines from fraud, and returul- ed to them disgusted with his little success that he went to Texas on visit, was elected a member of the Convention to form a State Consultation prior to the admission of the State into the Mexican Union that he head cd the disafection growing out Of the reec- ton of the Constitution by Santa Anna that he assisted in arousng the Texans to arms that he was elected the Commander-in-chef of the troops that he conducted the war vigor- ously, and brought it to q successful termina- tion at the battle of San Jacnto that he effected treaty acknowledging the indcpen- dence of Texas that he was elected first President of the Republic that he then be- come member of the Texan Congress, and was again elected President of Texas that he contributed greatly to the annexation of Texas to the United States and that, in l844, when Texas came into the American Union, he was elected Senator to Congress of which body he served until March last retiring from it to begin new round of off, ces as Governor of his State ;--I Say if your readers will cast their eyes back over this mar vicious record, it will be difficult to induce them to believe that Sam. Houston was but 66 years of age on the 2d of March last-beng q younger man than tue President of the Un- ted States If you could see him as saw him, shortly before he made his fare We'll speech in the Senate, which, Ike the farewell speech es of some other great actors in politics and the drama, was, as the result has shown, in tended to be but the advertisement of new
 engagement, you would have been impressed by his fine bearing, his snow-whte rufflcd shirt,
 his diamond decorated digitS, and his vigorous,
 statesman-like appearance you would not ask
 why Is it that Sam. Houston is enabled to point to an almost irresstby successful career He is not man. of learning or extended in- formation he is vain to a fault; fond of dress and show a superficial logican (and no man is so ready to admit these elements of his
 character as himself and yet he has won be- cause of hts iastineiire iore of truth, his horror of abstraction, and not the least of a his Mndom6ted courage and patriotism
 I If the life of this man could be written con amare by some Babbington Macauley, who would bring out it's strong features and conceal none of the little defects which give point to his character, as furnishing contrasts to his merits, it would constitute volume more in- terestng than that of the famous French lion 1 killers, whose narratives, few years ago, set the literary world wild with speculations." 
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