Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-12-28
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" simultaneous breaches or tb,
Oongrossman's bond md Of IN,
privileges Of tho House." Fo
this offcnso thoy tried tho man o
misfortune on tho floor, in police
court, and wherever bo could b,
dragged but he compelled yer,
dict Of character at the hands o.
tho very cock sparrow who had do
famed him. Then shaking the dust
Of Washington from his feet, he re.
turned to tho wilds of Arkansas,
and read Horace till the beauty OF
lifo and career wero born again,
and, with Il freshed spirit he saw
This opportunity in Texas. TO that
great new State ho became deliver
er and President, and with mag
nanimous patriotism, he led the
conquest to tho capital and the ma
tion which had cast him off,
ANDREW JACKSON AS A soUTHwEs-
TERNER.
| 1t may often puzzle the house.
hold man of the North to know
| why Andrew Jackson, with his
mixture of popular and dcspotic
| qualities, overthrow the dignificd
dynasty which presided from Wash
ington to John Q, Adams, and kept
the affections Of two. thirds of the
country in fact and memory. He
was the spirit of the Southwest.
He represented all the trans-Allc-
gheny country south of the Ohio in
its chaiings against restraint and
for development in tho provinces
of tho Indians and Spanish. Aaron
Burr, an acute politician, without
Jackson's steadfast and candid face,
had attempted to lead this spirit,
comprehending it; but greater
politician drew him back, and his
own sinister nature and vices en-
tombed him alive. Yet, as to nero
purpose, and in many respects of
episode, Houston's success and
Burr's dream are parts of the same
thing, and time and candor won at
San Jacinto what got for Mr.. Burr
only the posthumus plaudit of Mr..
Parton. Houston, like Burr, was
driven from his high dignities to
the pursuit ofambition in the South
west, and, as Burr revenged him.
self in mortal duel upon Hamilton,
Houston resented his persecution
upon the body of Congressman
Stansbury. Later opinion inclines
to the belief that Burr's design was
no worse than to cross the Sabine,
backed by the riflemen ofthe South.
west, wrest Texas and Now Mexico
from the Spanish, and by the pop.
ularity he should acquire there re-
turn again toward political domin-
ion at the Democratic capital at
Washington. And, thirty years
after Burr fled from New Orleans,
pursued by Jefferson's vigilant of.
ficeholders and dragons, Houston
returned, wounded, from the battle
field of revolutionized Texas, to be
| received at Now Orleans with al.
most idolatrous music and proud
and tondcr caro- and affection. Like
Burr, he believed that the annexa-
tion of the regions he had reduced
would make him President but he
was comparatively, unselfish and
unframed. And the mild old man,
overawed by the later great mutiny
for a Southwestern Empire, died
poor and deposed, like Burr, but
unhaunted by any victim of peril.
dy; and it has been said that he
left his bride in Tennessee, and sub.
mitted to slander unparalleled, be-
cause he would not forco himself
upon a woman whose heart was an.
others. IfTexas was won, as somo
say, by brutal means, it holds tho
ashes of AZ gallant a countryman
/ rs the General who took Quebec, or
the Knight who recovered JerQ.
| salem.
PRENI1ss AND oUITMAN.
Every man who admires force of
character and gallantry in the OBJ
jective view will be affected by the
deeds of these manifest destinarians
of the Southwest. Nor can any fail
to admit that they forced the boun-
ldaries of our empire, and fought
with tho valor and devotion of the
Tartar. They reasoned solely up
on tho imperial necessities and
mental supremacy of the American;
and many Of them were Northern
men who adopted the Southern
views and habits, and often excelled
in them. In Mississippi, s. S. Prom.
tiss and John A. Qaitnan, North
crn school teachers-the ono from
Maine and the other from New
York--reached the highest distlnc-
tions under all the codes which
prevailed there and their lives, al
ready fairly and fully, if not critic
ally, written, will puzzle and excite
a calmer posterity than ourselves.
Fire-eaters of opposite parties, they
had no mean emulation for ficti-
tious or irrelevant ancestry, and
could nearly say, with Albert Pike:
"My father was ajourneyma.n shoe
maker, who worked hard, paid his
taxes, and gave all his children the
benefit of an education" The de-
votion of Quitman to what was
then called in the Southwest the
American idea" can not be lightly
treated by an age which loves to
read of Mr.. Prescott's, Mr.. Helps,
or Mr.. Parkman's heroes. The
spirit of Cortes might have broken
the tomb in envy to see Quitman
fighting his way to Houston's side
in Texas, or through the house.
walls of Monterey, or carrying the
Belen Gate at the City of Mexico;
and as governor of the captured
| .l.I ,x,oa tba an, h.