Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-10-08
Gen. Houston and the Ladies'.

Gen. Houston and the Ladies'.
The Providence, Or. ~ Post accounts for the
election Of General Sam. Houston, as Governor
of Texas, by his elcctioneering speech to the la
dies. The old campaigner made a Characteristic
speech to his fellow.citzens at Nacogdoches, of
which the editor of the Post says "ths single
speech did the work-all that needed to be done,
after planting bimsef fairly and squarely against
the slave trade The paragraph which he ad
dressed to the ladies, after concluding his speech
to the serner sex, is whole speech Of ITSELF and
ought to elect any man who could utter it. We
give it as we find it in an Atlantic exchange pa
per, and pronounce it the most beautiful tribute
to Woman that ever fell from the lips of polti-
| clan
| "LADIEs | know that politics are always un-
interesting to you, yet believe you have in their
| general result an abiding interest. 1t is always
| Il qualification to me to behold my fair country
women in assemblages like these 1t is guar
antee that their husbands, and fathers, and bro
! theirs men of intelligence and refinement, who
appreciate their mental capacities, and desire
their countenance in their undertakings. Your
presence exercises a calming influence upon those
antagonsms which are too often engendered in
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your approving smile, and therefore all are Gu
cOuraged by your presence. | know that in the
direct administration of political affairs you have
no share ; but yet, reigning you do supreme
in the realm Of love, your influence often controls
the destiny of nations. WOmans love is the great
lever which raises man to action. The General,
as he plans the strategic combinations which
to ensure victory. looks forward to q recompense
dcarer than the laurelS upon his brow the sol
dier, as he rudges along on the weary march, or
minglps in the scenes of the battle field, even
with death around him, forgets awhile the car
mage and turns his thoughts to the fond girl he
left behind him the mariner, tempest tossed,
driven by rude waves sings menily aloft he
thinks Of the little cottage by the shore, where
his wife aud dear one await him the statesman,
as he devses amid deep and painful thought,
plans of goverrment which are to tell upon his
own aud his country's fame. never loses sight of
the Joys which await him when cabinet cOunses
are over, and he enters the portals of home the
sentinel, as he PAGES his weary watch, loves the
moonlight tramp that he may look beneath its
rays at the dear mement0 OF a mothers or sis
ter's love- Over man, in all his relationships,
the influence of woman hangs like charm. De-
prve rs of your influence which diguiiies and
stimulates us to noble deeds and We become
worse than barbarians. Let it be ours. and we
can brave cannOn's mouth, or face danger in
ten thousand forms. You stimulate all that is
good. You check in us ignoble purposes. You
have also an important influence upon posterty.
The early impressions which the child receives
from you, outlivc all the wisdom of later days.
Sages may reason and philosophers may teach,
but the voice which we heard III infancy will cV-
er come to our ears, bearing mothers words
and mothers counsels Continue to nstil into
your children virtue and patriotism. Undue them
with proper veneraton for the fathers of liber-
ty. Learn them to love their country. and to la
Dor for its good, the great end of their ambi-
ton. Bid them proudly maintain our insttu-
tions. Point them to the deeds of their ances-
tors. Make these their escutcheon, and bid them
hand it down TO their children as free of stain as it
came to them. Do this, ladies, and your inftu-
ence will not be lost in the future. In the Ian
guage of the poet it will be said =:
Woman is lovely to the sight
As gentle as the dews of even.-
As bright as mornings earliest light,
And spotess as the SHOWS Of heaven "
Dr. w. i. JACKsoN.-From the Pittsfeld Sun,
of Sept. 1st, we extract the proceedings of the
Berkshire (Mass) Medical Society, relative to
the death of Dr. VIM. i. Jackson, former resi-
dent Of Weaverville, The meeting was attended
by Drs. Chds, Lee, Ferre Whiting. Cady, Allen,
Smith, Miller, Brewster and Holcombe, the last
of which offered the following resolutions of con
doence, which were unanimously approved by
the Society;
Whereas, By the dispensatiOns of an all
and inscrutable God this Society has been sudden
ly called to mourn the loss of one of ifs Fellows
stricken down in the prime of his manhood and
in the dawning of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
RESOLVED, That in the death of William l..
Jackson, Of Pittslield, we are called upon to
chronicle the departure of worthy and high
minded Brother and Fellow-One who was en-
deared to the Profession by his earnest desire to
subserve its interests by every honorable effort,
and to the community in which he lived and to
the large circle of his acquaintance by his many
social and moral virtues, which endeared him to
all while living and left us mourning his depar-
ture.
Resolved, That while this Society mourn deeply
the severing of that tie which united him to us
and the Profession, we are yet called upon to re-
member that dearer and stronger bond of union
that has been severed and to mourn with her,
the full measure of whose grief we may not know.
AN EYE TO BUsNEss.-Mr, 81 is pous
English Divine, and very eloquent man. With
an eye to business, and characteristic shrewdness,
Barnum offered the pous gentleman $4,000
year to visit America and lecture under his SUI
pervison, which brought forth the following re-
buke
90 full of subtilty and mishef thou child OF
the devil. thou enemy of all righteousness wilt
thou not cease to pervert the right ways OF the
Lord ?"
THE Overland Stage route is the longest in the
world. There are one hundred and seventy chan
res betWepn St Louis and San Francisco.