Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-04-05
"reminiscences Of Sam Houston
by a Texan Lady.
philadelphia Times.

I
| When / first saw General Sar
Houston his second term of o
fee as President of Texas ha
not long expired. OF course
had heard Of him. There wa
not a human being in Texas VIII
was not familiar with his name
and from my very infancy l ha
been taught by my father +
honor and love him. Whel
therefore, one morning, as l wa
trudging along to school, / hear,
General Houston was in tow
and / determined to see him
The city of Honston was at tina
time the proud possessor of on,
brick building, known to all a
''the brick Office" 1t was |
small one story house, contain
ing two rooms, the front one be
ing used as a lawyers Office bu
/ knew this lawyer very well
and when he asked me what
wanted in his genial way, l an
swered promptly
81 want to see General HOus
ton.n
"But the General IS engaged
sjust now and l don't think you
can see him." But a voice,
rich, sweet, sonorous, called
out from the back room: "Who
is it wants to see met" "Only
a little girl, General "Cer.
tainly / will see her,o aud as he
spoke the realization of all my
dreams-Loland, Bayard, Wal.
lace and Washington, all in one
appeared in the doorway and
came toward me with outstretch-
ed hands. | was greeted as
courteously as if | had been a
princess. / introduced myself.
"Ah! the daughter of my old
friend-my good friend. l am
very glad to see you."
I aid:-"My father published
a song about you."
"Indeed! can you sing it p
eyes, sir; l came here to sing
it to you" Several gentlemen
had followed the chief from the
inner room and my ingenious
confession was greeted with 9
laughter which mortified me nc
little, until, quickly looking uT
into my hero's face, l saw there
only a pleased expectancy which
convinced me he only spoke the
truth when h he !. ,sajd, ,orndlI . q IN
which / did. 1t was only a,
adaptation of 'Bruce's Address,
to our own circumstances ant
began -
"'rexans, who with Sam Houston b!ed
Texans whom Rusk has often ied'
and was sung by an untaugh
little girl, but if l had been TN
Sontag or Malibran and TIT
song had been the most famous
of arias, no more profound hom
ace could have been RENDERED
than | and my simple parody re
ceived. Proud, happy, intense
lly fiattered, l prepared TO g
aWon't you be punished for bt
ing late at school" asked Tn
LAWYER. 81 reckon SO, but Nv
seen General Houstoh" wa
the answer, whereupon th
friend of Jackson, ex-Congres
man and Ex-Governor of Te'
nessee, hero of San Jacinto an
, OK. x.President of a Republic, as
ed somebody to give HIM y
! hat and cane, and said:-l
/, 90 with you, little daughter al
|, make your excuses" and actui
. ly went with me to the scho
! house and obtained a ready pa
don for my lateness.
i I did not see him again !
!. nearly two years, when l IN
+. him on the street one day a
;. was instantly recognized by h
6. and greeted by name. All !
= circumstances ofmy visit to \
a. a. we're recalled as freshly as II
X we're a person of importa!
n. and he had nothing else to TIL
to of since. Cannot the rea'
see in these two of the eau
40 of his unbounded populari'
re- He never forgot a name no'
.. face. At the time of my sec'
4 meeting he was on his way
"a nv fathers house, where
n, was always a welcome and |
or ored guest, and the evening
,st that day, sitting on the II
ats veranda, he himself taught
wn with bits of colored paper
10 to make a Texas flag.
wv. A Chattanooga dispatch, OF
ire 30th ult., says: Elder Nor
I'M presiding elder of the Nor
he ~, 1ort +bo aity To- daV