Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

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papers. G. III. S.
St Bethlehem. Tenn.i ~
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seg SAN HOUSTON.
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$3.50 orator.
/ [Townsend's letter to the Chicago Times.
In the year 1869 Arkansas Territory
was visited by a nobler refugee ther
/ commonly came to its seclusion. A
voluntary exile from the executive
mansion of Tennessee, followed BY
the fury of political press, and tht
| public, full of funcharitable interpre-
tation, which believed the worst
Sam Houston had resolved that the
sun should shine forever upon his
back, and the East be forgotten in
the misery of his spirit. A Governor,
elected at the age of 81, by 1900 ma
ljority, he had proved the reverse OF
the couDlet.
Art had no charity for them
Whom love had satisfied
He had married young lady and
after three months ofliving together,
they separated. The reason neither
never gave. All rushed word with
a reason, and that the basest: but
none gussed the shortest one, that
the woman did not love him. Like
Hester Prynne, implored by the
preacher, in public, to tell the name
of the betrayer, when the preacher
himself was in hopes, that it might be
said over Sam Houston. "He would
not speak! Wonderous strength and
generosity ofman's heart. He would
not speak, He resigned his office,
bowed his head, aud, in the splendor
of a young career, departed from the
desert. He landed at the mouth of
White river, and ascended the Ar
kansas to Little Rock, but not to
tarry and take root again in public
station; for, apprehending this, the
political papers even there DETAINED
him. Many years before he had been
adopted in the Cherokee tribe, and
he had come to claim its sympathy
and brotherhood. Four hundred
miles by land and water ne pushed
up toward the falls of the Arkansas,
and his father Oolooketa, the Chief,
FASTENED likewise to approach him.
The young Governor of Tennessee
stood before the savage, and was
greeted by his Indian name.
"Colenneh," said the chief, "you
have become great chief among
yourpeople. You have esuffered there,
and have turned your thoughts to my
wigwam. L am glad of it. 1t was
done by the Great Spirit"
For little space, Houston relapsed
into the Indians own drunken and
maudlin in sorrow. His strong ma
ture revived again, and he became
the great Indian champion at Wash
ington, and the scourge of the Indian
agents and traders who imposed upon
them. They revived at this capitol
all the ISLANDERS OF Tennessee, bur his
scars had healed, and would not bleed
anew. At last, an Ohio Congressman
slandered General Jackson in his
name, whom Houston revered. Then
there was an affray ON the avenue,
and nearly simultaneously breaches
of the Congressman's head and the
privileges of the House." For the
otfense they tried the man of misfor-
tune on the floor, in open court, and
wherever he could be dragged; but
he compelled verdict of character
at the hands of the very cocksparrow
who had DETAINED him, then shaking
the dust of Washington from his
feet he returned to the wilds of Ar
kansas, and read Horace till the
beauty of life and career were born
again, and with refreshed spirit he
saw his opportunity in Texas. To
that great new State he became de-
liverer and President, and with mag
unanimous patriotism, he led the
conquest to the capital, and the ma
tion which had cast him off.
1t may often puzzle the household
of the North to know why Andrew
Jackson, with his mixture of popular
and despotic qualities Overthrew the
dynasty which sprung from
Washington to John Quincy Adams,
and kept the affections of two-thirds |
of the country intact and memory.
He was the spirit of the Southwest. |
He represented all the trans-Al- |
legheny country south of the Ohio |
in its chafings against restraint and !
for the development in the provinces
of the Indians and Spanish. Aaron
Burr, an acute politician, without |
steadfast and candid face,
had attempted to lead this spirit, COM
it; but a greater politi- !
clan drew him back, and his own |
sinister nature and vices entombed |
him alive. Yet, as to mere purpose,
and in many respects of episode, !
success and Burr's dream |
are parts of the same thing, and time
ana candcr won at San Jacinto what |
got for Burr only the pOsthumous /
plaudit of Mr.. Parton. Houston, like |
Burr, was driven from his dignities to |
the pursuit of ambition in the South |
west, and, as Burr revenged himself 4
in mortal duel upon Hamilton, Hous-
ton resented his persecution upon the
body of the Congressman Stansbury.
Later opinions incline ia. the belief
that Burr's design was no worse than
TO cross the Sabine, backed by the
rifie-men of the Southwest, west
Texas and New Mexico from the
Spanish, and by the popularity he
should acquire their return again to
political dominion at the Democratic
Capital at Washington. And thirty
years after Burr fled from New Or
leans, pursued by Jeferson's vigilent
office holders and Dragons, Houston
returned wounded from the battle
field of revolutionized Texas to be
at New Orleans with almost
idolatrous music and proud and ten
der affection. Like Burr, he believed
that the annexation of the regions he
had reduced would make him Pres
ident; but he was comparatively
selfish and unframed. And the mild
old man, overawed by the latter
great mutiny of Southwestern EN-
pire, died poor and deposed, like
Bnrr, but unhaunted by any victim of
perfdy; and it has been said he left
his bride in Tennessee, and submit
ted to SANDER unparalleled, because
he would not force himself upon q
woman whose heart was another's.
II Texas was won, as some say, by
brutal means, it holds the ashes Of
as gallant a countryman as the Gen.
eral who took Quebeck, or the Knight
who recovered Jerusalem.
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