The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-03
An Imperfect sketch of MT. HutchesOn's
Speech Nominating ThrOck-
morton.

j came here, Mr.. Speaker. with
personal feelings and sympathies for
James w. Throckmorton, but with
the impression that | should support
Gen. 5. Ii. Maxey. Nothing has
transpired to change the estimation
in which | held that distinguished
gentleman. DetractiOn cannot sully
his honor and shame itself would
be ashamed to sit on the brow OF
him who would attempt il. He has
been faithful and laborious, and
had drifted along with the senti-
ment which regards man who has
acceptably filled place as entitled
to retain il. But looking about and
taking my reckoning, Mr.. Speaker,
| have decided to cast my feeble
voice for James w. ThrOckmorton,
of Collin county. Whence are the
two men? From North Texas, the
stronghold of Democracy, the gran
airy of this state, il claims the Sen
atof, and you seem 10 be disposed
to yield il to her: then let North
Texas have her choice. From Col
lin county all along Red River, east,
west, north and south of Lamar
county, ask who is their darling son,
their Amounted and we'll beloved
Joseph, and with one voice the cry
comes echoing back James w.
ThrockmortOn. Then ask Texas,
ask the broad state to look to its
past history and see TO whom she
owes her hOnors.
A picket on the outpost of her adj
vancing civilization he stood on her
frontier, and like the people of Ju-
dea, built up her habitations with
one hand, while with the other he
fought back the red men from her
borders. A soldier in the wars of
1867, when Palo Alto and Resaca
de la Palena were enriched with the
blood of her sons, he was found in
her ranks. A counsellor in her in
fancy, he builded up her waste
places and gave her a system of
laws which was her baptism of lib
erty and prosperity. And, Mr.
Speaker, in the great hour of her dan
ger, " hen she was about to blot her
star forever from the galaxy of the
states, seeing with prophetic ken,
dangers obvious and advantages
doubtful and remote, he was found,
like Hecter, advising the return of
the beautiful Helen, the saving
of Troy from desolating war;
yet, when war came, like that
hero, he was seen i'll the
thickest of the fight, barring his
breast like the Trojan; and when
she lay dead and bleeding, he, like
the Nazarene, was found kneeling at
her grave calling to her to rise and
come forth; and he kissed her pale
dead lips into new life
Here is his record for sagacity:
Cassandra proclaiming the fall of
her loved city, did not excel him in
Here is record for cour-
age, for it was he, who, standing in this
house alone, and looking over the
pillows of an angry and tempestuous
sea of public sentiment, with q full
sense of rectitude and a high pur-
pose, could say, "having before me
my duty to my God and my country
| vote no" and when the galleries
Kissed he hurled back the defiance,
when the rabble hiss well may
patriots tremble" That man ex-
hibited greater courage than he who
drove the rowels of his spurs into the
tanks of his steed and spurred across
the bridge of Lodi amid ten thou
sand shot and shell. 1t is q drawer
thing to brook the froYns of disap-
proving. friends than to, charge on
the breast of, opposing foes.
Here is a record for fidelity
Aeneas, bearing on his shoulders the
body of old Anchises, did not more
fulfil his trust than did
James w. Throckmorton in taking
IN his shoulders the dead body Of |
our state, when she lay lifeless and
after the conflict was over.
MID ali the storms of life he has
been the finty oak; the solid rock,
md i'll its peaceful walks the sunshine |
md shade" Only those disparage
lis genius who would soothe the |
,nyy of conscious mediocrity. These |
ire his public virtues, but his hosts |
# friends attest his private claim to
,ur support, though like the sun,
lot so bright as to conceal its spots,
ret too warm for us to feel its shad-
,ws.
Texas, paying tribute to her noble
on, will pour a libation as generous.
md noble as Theirs poured to lib
rating Jobe. Letpot his name go
lown in night, bptEbid it, like
Joshua, stand still and shine ever in
he heavens.