The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-22
| to Colonel John II. Moore

VIVA. " Hhpany should place monument To
COW yColoncl John H. Moore, Of Fsyette
AVerysu Texas, where your road crosses the
mohsN' 10 river in Mitchell county.
zen " 9" you, without explanation, the sugges-
nu Fmay seem unreasonable but with the
eFAna.ions below given, l am free TO be-
Wouiu 1so that every officer snd stakeholder
ssess'u your company will be glad to carry out
porS ~ suggestion. Colonel Thomas A. Scott,
hon stur president is Pennsylvania, ssd 60 is
sbots Rave nionears and soldiers in tha set,Ionnont
~ wy ind reclamation of Texas from a savage will
ere prerness, as Mexican provincial Deepen lem
ases Wy, to its erection into Free constitutional
an P'republic. Among Its earliest pioneers were
Poor Asa and Eli Mitchell, two Pennsylvania
acin' brothers, for whom Mitchell county is named
lat Your road crosses the Colorado river
70, in Mitchell county. Among the volunteer
!. soldiers who died for Texas was Giddings, of
ucs, Pennsy vanis, who fell at San Jacinto, and
rsN whose brothers have been long known and
NJ cherished as our truest aed purest men, one
~ having been several times member of con-
~ gress One of our two first members TO the
ne United States congress, David S. kaufman,
Aac' was Il Pensylvanian. The state Of Governor
'ppe Brown, your vice president, gives us our
ORG ORG most illustrous chief Sam Houston; also IA
!. A martyr of the Alamo in the person of David
9no'il Crockett; q Yicepresident of the republic in
seoIS Kenneth l.. Anderson; our first chief
~ ustice ini james ColliDgsworth; an en-
wy spresario in Sterling u Robertson; the au-
X thor Of our declaration OF Independence in
~. " George q. Childress; two of our greatest
poss orators in William H. and John A. Whar-
49, ton; snd our Two greatest pioneer heroes in
eea Gen. Edward Bureson and John II. Moore.
~ Almost every state furnished its quota of
~ tried and true men, who did their part ia
rescuing Texas from savagery, and placing it
p'o on the nigh road TO modern civilization.
o o But us sometimes occurs, there are pecu.
e ~ liar reasons for and fitness Of things ia the
oS, Texas ~ Pacific railroad company erecting
WY where its line crosses the Colorado q shaft
SI,G to the memory OF the brave and lumeuted
q Col, John II. Moore.
You naturally ask why Let me, one OF
s's your earliest, most steadlast, but never Il
al sycophantic friend, answer
John IL Moore came 10 Texas from Ten
W nessee in 1926, aud settled in the valley OF
the Colorado, in what is now FAyette county.
Tho whole country WAS full Of wild Indians
John II. Moore was e man Of commanding
person, standing about six feet four, and till-
ing our beaG ideal OF Scottish chef-lear-
le;s, discreet and brave, he naturally became
p
enemy appeared in the settlements. When
ever danger came John II. Moore became
tho commander Of the volunteer citizen
soldlery. In every campaign be was sue
cessIul. He commanded IN many skirmishcs
with the red man and was always successful.
In 1885 be commanded au expedtio, OF
tnr0a companies and drove The hUstlles from
Tehuacano springs, killing many warriors,
and bad scarcely gotten home, till he rallied
I'm Us. me- al
mauder Of tue first engagement be-
tween tha Texans and MeXicans in
tho Lexington Of Texas--the fight
opposite Gonzales, September Is, 1886,
which iuaugursLed the Texas revolution He
drove tho Mexican cavalry as whirwiud
drives the storm il the air. Circumstances
the fOrlurn condition Of his dCfeDselesz
family, severed Colonel Moores connection
with the amy for Il season, but in 1888 we
fad BIN in command Of an expedition
sgainst the wild Indians on the Pierdensles
in which ho won u great victory. In 1889 be
repeated the scene and again LriumDhed after
Gb.o95y hgbt and broughtintJ the settlements
not only many Indian prisoners but several
American children who had been captured
and held rs slaves BY the wild Comanches aud
KioWa. la tho fall of 1910, the govern,
meut ooiog poor and helpless, Col John II
Moore, OF hls own monitor, published @
Clrcu'Ar tHlaHE upon every "pie-D9aisc
young man Ia tne country TO JON nun IN ~
eAPe1iuoh aS4ihss inc Indians TO rally aud
uIS'hi1e ~ LaUfanSe' was then an or
Ep@n 10y, residing win my uncle, Col
JAa'es Nsrr, on the LsVaca river, IN jackson
county anq stSrIed with Glars u; owen
NicHons d Rysh, Ee1er hocEleller and
o!ue,s 70 JON Vol Moore On tho hrs
hlSu'i NY Ioise' a splenG'd Mexican mare
WSs cIo , 70 ae"Vn by aer stake rope.
WalSyu twenty 'lihe inies 10 Mira Lyons, OF
tnu NN'la91, 'rylns 10 get a horse out failed
auu' Us l's' resort was compelled to wall
paEN uVlno' ,.,
pu1 wy e%PeGiNou "enI forward all th'
same Jouh IL Moore as MISTER OF course
was eVcleI col'nel' ana lhe citizen Yolun
leers were gfsa1Tsa INTO companies OG'
Golpuuy wen Tanieuper. Ihomas j
hAop was !, ~ p'alii H.aI" Il, QWen; oil Tex
asss WIS A S.l''l o . d. fieiqs, little
WHY, uHS M i'a'au I,alwlor Of L'Gr"nge
Mos t nla19 S Sil;l 1ne command reached
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