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have anticipated there the career Of Houston,
and fulfilled the ambitious dreams OF Burr.
sAM HOUSTON.
In tho year 1929, Arkansas Territory VAS visited
By nob1er refugee than commonly came to its
secIuslon 4 voluntary exile from the Executive
Mansion Of Tennessee, followed by the fury of a
political press, and that public, full Of unchari-
table interpretation, which believed the worst
Sam Houston had resolved that the sun should
forever Chine upon his back, and the East be
forgotten IN the misery Of his spirit. Cover
nor elected at the age Of 81, by $4,000 majority,
he had proved the reverse Of TIE couplet:
Art hath no charity for him
Whom love has satisfied,
three months Of living together, they separated
The reesona neither ever gave. AL rushed for
ward with raeson, and that the basest; but
none ghessed the shortest one that the woman
did not love him. Like Hester Prynne, implo1ed
name of hsr b6etrayer; When the preach.
Be said over Sam III Houston s: she would lot
Bweak 'Wondrous strength and generosity Of
mans heart He would not speak!' He resigned
OF young career, departed for the desert. He
landed at the mouth Of White River, aud ascend
ed the Arhansas to Little Rock, but not to tarry
aud take root again in public station for appre-
hending this, the political papers even there
DETAINED him. Many years before, he had been
adopted into q Cherokee tribe, and he had come
to claim its sympathy and brotherhood. -Four
hundred miles by land and water he pushed up
toward the Falls Of the Arkansas, and bis father,
Oolooketa, the Chief, hastened likewise to ap-
proach him. The young Governor Of Tenhessee
stood before the savage. and vas greeted By his
Indian namoi
): Colennel,' said the Chief, .syon have be-
come great. Chief among your people. You
have suffered there, and have turned your
snaSss aoas Dy y IL SsMa asssat Spirit An s@0 OF "
For q Little space, Houston relapsed into
the Indians own drunken aud maudlln souow-
| His strong nature revived again, and be became
! the Indian champion at Washington, and the
imposed upon them. They revived at this Cap
ital al the SANDERS OF Tennessee, but his scars
| had healed, and would not bleed anew. At last,
an Ohio Congressman alandered Andrew jack
son In his name, whom Houston revered. Then
there Was an aIfray Oh the Avenue, and nearly
simultaneously breaches Of the Congressman's
head aud Of the privileges Of the House" :"
| For this offence they tried the man OF misfor-
| tune on the floor, in Police Court, and wherever
he could bo dragged but he compel]ed d YER
dict Of character at the hands OF the very cock
sparrow who had DETAINED him. Then, shaking
! the dust of Washington from his feet, he re-
turned to the wiIdB OF Arkansas, and read
| Horace till the beauty Of life and career were
born again, and, with a freshed spirit, he saw
| his opportunity in Texas. To that great new
! State be became deliyerer and President, and,
with magnanimous patriotism, he led the con-
guest to the Capital and the Nation which had
| cast him OF.
| .ASpREW JACKSON AS soUTHWEsTEHNEg.
It may often puzzle the household man Of the
| North to know why Andrew Jackson, with his
! mixture Of popular aud despotic qualities over
threw the digniied dynasty which presided from
Washington to John Quincy Adams, and kept
the affections Of two-thirls Of the country in
fact and memory. He was the spirit OF the
Southwest. He represented ali the tranE- ALE
gheny country south Of the Ohio in it's chahngs
I against restraint and for Development in the
provinces of the Indians and Spanish. Aaron
Burr, an acute politician, without Jacksons
this spirit, comprehenaing it; but a greater pol
itician drew him back, and his own sinister ma
ture and vices entombed him alive. Yet, as to
mere purpose, and in many respects OF episode.
the same thing, and time and candor won at San
Jacinto what got for Alr. Burr only the postum
nous p1audit Of A1r. Parton. Houston, like
Burr, was driven from his high dignities to the
pursuit OF ambition in the Southwest, and, as
Burr revenged himself in mortal duel upon Ham-
ilton, Houston resented his persecution upon the
body of Congressman Stansbury. Later opinion
incllnes to the belief that Burrs design was no
worse than to croBs the Sabine, backed by the
riaemen Of the Southwest, wrest Texas, and
1arity he shonld acquire there, return again
toward political dominion at the Democratic
Capital Of Washington. And, thirty years after
BUR- fled from New Orleans, pursued By Jeffer-
sons vigilant ofice-holders and dragons, Hous-
| ton returned wounded from the battlefield OF
| revolutionized Texas to be received at New Or.
! leans with almost idolatrous music, and proud
and tender care and affection. Like Burr, be
believed that the annexation OF the regions ne
had reduced would make him President; but he
Was comparatively unselfsh and unframed. and
| the mild old man, oyerawed by the later great
mutiny for Southwestern Empire, died poor
and deposed, Like Bur-, but unhaunted by any
victim OF perfdy; and it has been said that he
left his br1de IN Tennessee, and submitted to
Islander unparalleled, because be would not force
himself upon woman whose heart Was
| anothers. If Texas was Won, as some say, bJ
brutal means, it hold the ashes Of as gallant 8
count1yman as the General who took Quebec, OF
| the knight who recovered Jerusalem.
/ pnES11ss AND QuIrNAN.
Every man who admires force of character
and pailantry in the objective view will be affect
ed By the deeds Of these Manifest Destinarians
Of the Southwest. Nor can any fail to admit
that they forced the boundaries OF our Empire
and fought with the valor and devotion Of the
Tartar. They reasoned solely upon the Imperia
| necessities and mental supremacy OF the Amerl
can !; and many Of them we're Northern men
who adopted the Southern views and habits, ane
often eIcelled in them. In Mississippi, 8. 8
Prentiss and John L. Quitman, Northern school
teachers,-~the one from Maine and the othe1
| from New York,-reaehed the highest distino
and and their % lives, already fairly and fnlly, il no
critically, written, will puzzle and excite I
| caIrner poaterity than ourselves. Fire-eaters O
1n opposite parties, they had no mean emulatio,
for fictitious or irrelevant ancestry, and coult
1 nrn1eymyaan-shoemaker, ya who worked hard, pait
his taxes, and gave all his children the benefit
Of IN education" The devotion of Quit1nan t.
what was then called in the Southwest "'th
American idea " cannot be lightly treated By q
Helps, or Mr.. Parkman's heroes. tn
spirit Of Cortea might have broken the tomb il
toms side in Texas, or through tho house-wall
Of Monterey or carrying the Belen Gate 81, at tn
tured Capital, be was the embodiment Of feuda
vigor and democratic wisdom. No wonder tha
ali mississippi rose in his rear and made hin