The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13

his bright morning beams the setting
sum is soon forgottehl His was no summer
friendship, but grew grand and strong amid
winter and storms. / call upon yo,f, surviving
comrades, to testify if he ecer deserted friend
or turned his back upon foe from San Jacinto
to Blair's Landing? He was man of the grand
est courage. IL has been said he was mad and
reckless, but such criticism is most unjust !
met him once near the city of Washington, in
Louisiana, when Banks was there How calm
and cool he was then in counseli How calmly
he talked seeking counsel with his officers in the
weary vigis OF night How, when the bngie
sounded, he dashed ike thunde-bolt upon the
foe! He wag great cavalry soldier. Had ms
fortunes been cast with armies on wide
theater, where his talents and genius
would have had scope, he would have
developed into g great corps commander,
and Lee and Stonewall Jackson would have
learned to lean upon his strong arm. Had
he been at the Wilderness" at the. head of the
| Texas troops, his place would have been there
| (pointing to McArdle's painting of lee at the
| Wilderness'1 and his hand would be upon Lees
bride rein, By the side of that hero private eff
Hoods brigade. Had he been with Napoleon, he
| would have gone down into history with Lannes,
and Kleber, and Aurat, and Ney, of the mar
shals Of France.
| We meet here to celebrate this day, the hun
dredth anniversary of our Republic, and it is dp-
propriate that this other ceremony should also
take place Green loved the Union. He was
devoted to the great principles Of constitutional
| liberty inaugurated one hundred years ago and
sealed by the blood and treasures of its fathers.
! He was early taught that taxation without rep
resentation" was tyranny, and he hated tyranny.
The sections have been divided by gulf OF
blood, but it it drying up Let us hope it may
soon be filled with happy memories---a union OF
the living and the dead---the Union our fore
| r L. e., thar iad
belongs TO us, the memories of this day, as much
| or more as to our Northern brethren. Shall we
deny our heritage in Washington. jefferson and
Lee, and Rutledge and Henry, and Hancock and
the Adamses, and the host of the mighty dead
Of the first revolution? Shall we part
with our birthright? The living and the dead
both forbid it. Green's fame will grow brighter
when we are re-united-when we are in tact
as well as in theory band of brothers. The dead
are safe; let us look to the icing. The past is
secure; let us look to the future, future whose
| greatness and power shall grow with the growth
and strengthen with the strength of our beloved
country And, while we place this memorial OF
the great chieftain on these walls of the Capto
| by the side of Houston and Austin and Rusk anG
Burleson, and the civic and military heroes Of
Texas. let us not forget the fame and the memo
ries of those who died, as lie did in the cause o.
Texas While cannon is roaring from the lakes
to the gulf while soldier and sailor from fort anC
mast of ship on land or sea, with forty millions o
freemen are celebrating his national Sabbath day
IL repedt it-let us not forget the memory of the
dead hosts who sleep in nameless graves, from
Gettysburg to Mansfield, or those patriot leaders
who died for what they deemed our honor anc
our homes How they troop in solemn march
as memory calls up their forms from the grave
There is Sidney johnson and Lee and Hill anC
Barlow and Stonewall jackson and Cleburnt
and Gregg, and Cranberry and McCulloch anC
Scurry and Randall and Racquet and Lockridg'
and Polk, and the other great innunerable hos
of the private soldier dead, whose memory shall
be monument in Southern and Texan heart
foreverl They have all passed with Jackson
across the river and sleep with the brave Fed
eral dead, who fell with them on the SAM
bloody battlefields, and on the bosom of thu
SAME natue land We have had arrangements
States have been severed and belligersnt. Iii
all over now and at rest. Let us hope that tn
''blood of the martyrs shall become the seed o
, the church." and from the ashes of the past shal
spring a restored Constitution and faithful
f trusting Union of the States, whose bands shal
aeCe1 he broken while the shines in heaven