The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-24

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senators mentioned IN 'ha iofYllnN snliw
only Two now remnn. William W.
bc0tt, now q representative i!.lf uprn on
county, nod Isaac fafkof, suli y uecrey.
cluzon OF Parker county, now o'ghy-e'Bht
years old.
Referring 10 tho foregoing communication,
wherein fourteen OF the sixty I'VE repressnth'
tives were thcn known 70 DO living, have 70
add the death OF Napoleon u. Cherltop, OF
| TYLER county, man of high character and
sterling worth Edward CLARK, OF Harrison,
who WAS governor when the war began In
| 1861. and who was exiled With me 20 Mexico
| in 1866; DR.. David q. Dickson, OF Grimes,
man loved BY all who ever knew him, ole
though be departed from the faith Of the
| (democratic) fathers in 1865, when l
was battling almost solitary and alone
for the equal rights of foreign citizens,
domicilated in our country. It was the o.
| " sin DIR. Dickinson ever committed in our
political history, and he repsnted' Of it 10
keack-cloth and ashes. He eschewed his mis-
take and came back to our Jeffersonian fold,
which held that man born ia Germany,
| Ireland. France or elsewhere, and settled
here az an American citizen, was entitled to
| The same rights as IL be had been born in
! MASSACHUSETTS,, Illinois or Texas He wss a
noble and pure man. jerome B. McCown
is also since dead. The other members of
that senate and that house, so far as
| Il vet know, are living. The faal snalysis
| az the figures as presented 10 nv figures of
| two wears ago, should therefore be changed
! TO stand as fellows:
| Thus It will be seen that of the lO3 officials
~ the organization OF the state government,
tbirtv-fiye wears ago. ninety-two ere dead and
only sixteen living.
MIR. Editor. there is no moss bsckiem in q
con who has reverence for his dead father
and mother; there is no moss bsckism in d.
father VINO instils into the mind OF his child
| a proper respect for the honesty and purity
1 Of former generation, and thus tries to save
lbis child from the damning COR
ruptjons Of e later day, wherein infdelity
/ 10 all that is pure in regard to
welded life, the birth and rearing OF children,
| Il tramnled under foot and men and women
ara r,ronosed "a be- turned loose as animals
on he plains. People talk Of moss-backs
! and FOSSILS. now-s-days, as though every man
who refuses TO support every innovation on
the rules of our fathers, for the virtuous
training of our sons and daughters, was a
moss-6ack and q fossil. Virtue, honesty and
common decency soft upon and trample
under foot such peri and brazen-
checked assumptions, and no power
m earth can proven. the
children Of virtuous parents in Texas
| from entertaining, as a living sentiment, q
| rasrectft1l reverence for the fathers of Texss
4 who laid broad and deep Che foundstions for
| the prspdest syeteoa of education the world
ever saw. who opened the arms of the state
to welcome immigration from all parts Of the
world: who gave woman her Just rights as
a human being, the equal in governmental
ethics of the man, and who, in every respect,
has gore forward as pionear in the great
cause Of human development, ahead of any
state kingdom or country in either ancient
| or modern times.
ALTHOUGH not embraced ia the list OF Off
cials at The time of annexation, permit me 10
enroll among the dead. since NV article of
two Years age. Mrs. Jane q. Long. the oldest
| female American resident of Teyas, whose
| husband was assassinated at tide palans door
| u The CIV Of Mexico, in 1921; Judge Edwin
Waller. a sicoer Of our declaration Of indn>
incidence. and tne government commissioner