The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-05
An ELOQUENT ADDRESS,
The screnade or Lieutenant Governor
Hubbard, OF Texas.

From the Hot Springs COURIER

| upon lneDhlcOIy uiIu uoilN''"""Hp'
witty aud most eloquent speech, of
which the following Is u synopsis
thank you, fellow citizens Of Ar
kansas, for the magnificent serennde
and this large presence of youth, beauty
aud manhood. accept the tribute
not indeed TO me, personally, but he
cause Of the great commonwealth of
Texas, which !, In parl, havethe honor
| TO represent.
Texas has right to commune with
Arkansas and take counsel together.
We ARE the same people, settled about
tho same time, aud the carly pathways
10 our civilization carved IN the viii
derness by the same noble, hardy, rug
ged pioneers whose pluck aud daring
still lives In the warm blood Of their
SONS.
We come To receive your generous
welcome as brothers IN this great trim
| ity of states and M citizens of II com
mon country, descended from the
same ancestry, with common soil
and interest, and with the same great
hopes for the future. We come on bu-
slness, ny well IA on mission of good
brotherhood. lie snid Texas and Lou
isiana came to seek On exchange of our
products, and to bring about, with
cheap freights IN early reciprocity OF
trade IN all the products of our agricul-
tural manufacturing and mining In
teresls. Why not? Ourgulfi Is nearest
You by II Thousand miles, aud the 60
MUS of commerce stands at our gull
shores bcseeching you to ilont your
rich freight on the waters of that nearer
sen. We of Arkansas, Louisiana aud
Texas must work railroads
have rcvolutioned the great west MS
well ny the whole cOuntry-cneap trans
portation will at no distant day, trans
fer the great grain trade of the west
from the Atlantic TO our southern sea-
board--they stand face to face. We
must recognize the situation. 81.
| Louis and other cities Of the older and
newer west, must solve the problem,
and determine whether the old chan
nels of trade must be followed or Il
"new departure witness new trade
of many and untold millions spring up
and become permanent between Texas,
Arkansas and Louisiana and other
states of the great west,
lie elaborated the idea, spoke Of the
immense resources of Texas, aud
showed how, at the present rate Of de-
velopment, she would from her $50
600 of people grow 10 1000, 900 or 3,00O,-
900 In the decade He spoke of the In
ducements to the emigrant to go TO
Texas, and explained fully all the
claims which her liberal homestead
laws, cheap and rich lands, and her
prosperous free schools and compare
lively low taxes, and small public debt,
offered to the homeless wanderers from
all lands and nationalities on the face
of the earth. He said Texas, in all her
public engagements, will stand by her
plighted faith. Her S3i0,000,00O of
taxable property, raises 100000 bales of
cotton, which, with MI her other great
industries, are protected by goods laws
and by an administration which re-
fleets and obeys the popular will. He
spoke of the great want of the day and
the time, Is to know each other better
than we do. We must reestablsh the
old brotherhood of the early and the
"bettcr days' from Maine to Texas,
and then we can combine the west and
the east, the north and the south, and
locking our shields together march
with great strides In the grand race of
progress and civilization.
Judge Underwood of Illinois, Hon.
Mr.. Hill, of st. Louis, and Judge
Abels, of Cincinnati, being present,
were in turn called out. They made II
great many good hits and many were
the plaudits they received.
In response to the above named gem
tlemen, Mr.. Hubbard again appeared
on the balcony, amid many rousing
cheers, and replied as follows:
The touching illusions made to the
early friendship which existed between
Ohio and the struggling republic of
Texas, by my distinguished friend
Judge Abels, of Cincinnati), rs well as
by my friends Hon. Mr.. Hill, of st.
Louis, and Judge Underwood, of ILL
nois, demand that | should respond,
especially to those honorable and COM
plimentary references to my state.
The honored gentlemen from Ohio
omitted to mention one other bright
link in the chain which binds our his
tories together. When Texas was poor
and almost starving, with no treasury,
small army unpaid, ragged and bare
footed, and unarmed, the noble women
of Cincinnati, enlisted rs woman al
ways is, in the cause of the weak and
friendless, purchased at great expense
u battery of two guns afterwards pap
tsed as the Irwin Sistersn), and sent
them to our army. They were receiv.
ed just in time to be present at the bat
tie of San Jacinto, in 1886. They OPEN
ed that days battle and contributed
largely to the grand success of that
''historic day."
Yes sir; we may well call up these
noble "reminiscences of the earlier and
better days of our history. Those guns
during the late war were captured and
to-day Texas mourns over their alb
sence as mother weeps for her lost
children. thank you, my distinguish
ed friends, for the expression of the
hope that the country may become
peaceful and happy and the union
grow stronger and more enduring.
undertake to pledge Texas, the
great beating heart of my people, to
that sentiment. 1t is time to forget
the quarrels and bitterness which made
the past sad history for our race The
south was In earnest In the great war,
and manhood forbids that she should,
In the day of her poverty and her de-
feat, acknowledge that the cause in
which she lost all was wicked an UNI
holy one. Never! never! But we
can and ought to recognize the stern
logic OF events. In the graves of our
dead were buried the hopes of separate
nationality, and there let them rest in
honored sepulchre forever.
The great west especially and the
south should cherish relations of amity
and good brotherhood. Our railway
system brings us together, and in few
more decades, from north to south.
other competing lines will be built,
which shall furnish an outlet by our
own gulf for the millions OF commerce
which now no by the canals and rraat