Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-07
BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO Wo-
MAN

Gen Houston, who recently went through
triumphant canvass for Governor of Texas
beating his Democratic opponent some 10000
majority, paid the following beautiful tribute
to woman in one of his speeches. As is well
remarked by a cotemporary, this paragraph
is whole speech of itself, and ought to elect
any man who could utter it,"
Ladies / know that politics are always un-
interesting to you, yet 1 believe you have in
I>their general result an abiding interest. 1t is
always qualification to me to behold my fair
country women in assemblages like these. II
is guarantee that their husbands, and fathers
and brothers are men of intelligence and refine
ment, who appreciate their mental capacities
| and desire their countenance in their undertak
| ings. Y our presence exercises calming in
| huence upon those antagonisms which are SC
| often ef1gendered in the hest of political con
tests. All parties desire your approving smile
and therefore all are encouraged by your pres
ence. l know that in the direct administra
ton of political affairs you have no share, but
yet reigning, as you do, supreme in the realm
of love, your influence often controls the destiny
of nations. Womans love is the great lever
which rouses man to action. The general, az
he plans the strategic combinations which are
to insure victory, looks forward to a recon-
pense dearer than the laurels upon his brow
the soldier, as he trudges along on the weary
march, or mingles in tie scenes of the battle
field, even with death around him, forgets a.
/, while the carnage and turns his thoughts tc
the fond girl he left behind him; the mariner
tempest tost, driven by rude waves sings mer-
| l,f4 I-o4 i,lr of ha hr
the shore, where his wife and dear ones await
him; the statesman, as he devises amid deer
and painful thought, plans of government which
are to tell upon his own and his country's fame
never looses sight Of the joys which await hin
when cabinet counsels are over, and he enters
the portals of home the sentinel, as he pace;
| his weary watch, loves the moonlight tramp
that he may look beneath its rays at the deal
memento of mothers or a sisters love. Ovel
man in all his relationships, the influence o
woman hangs like charm. Deprive us o
your influence, which dignifes us and stimu
lates us to noble Deeds and we become worst
than barbarians. Let it be ours and we car
brave the cannon's mouth or face danger in ter
thousand forms. You stimulate all that il
good You check in us ignOble purposes
You have also an important influence upoI
posterity. The early impressions which th'
child receives from you outlive all the wisdom
of later days. Sages may reason and philoso
pliers may teach, but the voice which we hearC
in infancy will ever come to our ears, bearing
a mothers words and mothers counsels.-
Continue to instil into your children virtue ant
patriotism, imbue them with proper venera
ton for the fathers of liberty. Learn them t.
love their country, and to labor for its good
as the great end of their ambition. Bid then
proudly maintain our institutions Point then
to the deeds of their ancestors. Make thest
their escutcheon, and bid them hand it down tt