The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-07
TIE GREAT MONTH OF TEN A..

TIE GREAT MONTH OF TEXAS.
The month OF March IL the mOsl
memorable In the annals Of Texas. See
the events Of that single month In the
year 1886:
The Convention of the people met nj
Washington on the first day Of the
month. On the second II declared In.
dependence. On the 9th the Alamo
fell, after u thirteen days. seige. On
the 18th the Constitution ofthe Repub-
lie was adopted, provisional govern.
ment formed and the Convention ad-
journed. Early in this month General
Houston took command Of the army
ut Gonzales and before its close had
retreated across the Colorado and
the Brazos rivers. About the 10Th
Fannin, Ward and King sur
rendered near Goliad, and on the 9th
the prisoners, to the number of nearly
four hundred men, were basely mas
sacred by the Mexican army under
General Urea. But few days before u
body of American volunteers under
Colonel William p. Miller, of Tennes-
see, landed at Copano bay, and were
captured by TREAS troops, thus leav-
ing at the end of the month not n sim
gle armed American west of the Brazos.
Bancroft or Prescott could I'll vol.
ume with the events of this month
alone in the history of Texas.
March, lS42-in this month the Mex
leans again invaded Western Texas by
two routes. On the coast road they
came near Goliad, capturing San Pa
trlcio and the town of Refugio. They
were soon expelled by the bold spirits
of Goliad, Victoria, Jackson, Mata-
gorda and Brazaria. San Antonio de-
Tended by the intrepid Hays, with
only l07 men hastily drawn together,
was evacuated on the sixth of March,
(the sixth anniversary of the fall of
the Alamo and occupied by the Mex
lean General Vasquez, with fifteen
hundred men and four pieces of artil-
lery. President Houston, from pru-
dental reasons, hastily removed the
seat of government from Austin to
Houston; but the people, from til Q
Trinity west, rallied as one man un-
der their chosen leaders, with Burle-
son as chief, and on the eighth day
after the capture, drove the Mexicans
from San Antonio ana across the Rio
Grande.
In both the months referred to
many otherthrilling events transpired.
Ou the second Of March, 1861, Texas
seeded from the United States.
On the 9TH of March, 1862, General
Benjamin McCu!loch was killed in
the battle of Elkhorn.
On the second of March, Ia strange
coincidence,) the first act of Congress
for the reconstruction of Texas was
passed.
On the 3Oth of March, 1870, the pre-
sent Constitution, adopted under the
reconstruction laws, was accented by
Congress and became the fundamental
law of Texas.
On the 2lst OF March, 1876, (the pre-
sent month"; the vote of the whole
people of Texas, of all colors, on the
new Constitution will be counted at
theseat of government and its ratiiica-
ZION by an unprecedented majority in
our annals, WITH the election under its
provislons' OF an entirely new set of
State, District, coouty and precinct
officers, will be officially proclaimed
blythe Governor of the State.
The reader will see, Ia what has boon
said, enough to impress ON his mind
the fact that March Is remarkable
month in the history of Texas. Did
space permit We could enlarge ON the
singular Condolences.
But we can not omit to mention ono
or two other facts. The frst ~ that
inthevery first effort Of the coIonists
OF Texas tose secure liberty to themselves
and their children by forming a CON.
stitution as separate State If Mexico
the delegates to the convention were
elected on the first day of March, lss3
IL Is not unworthy Of mention. as !
second incident, that Richard Coke
the present as well as the re.elected
Governor of Texas, through whom the
grand Proclamation Of final redemn.
'lon Is to be made on the 2lst instant
was porn In Old Virginia ON the latb
=, March 1923, nine days after Andrew
ssckson, the tunswerying friend Of
s ssAas' was first inaugurated az presi.
oen. OF the United States.
10 complete the remarkable event.
u the month, as pertaining to Texas,