San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-02-22


ertofore proved sufficient to control
human action and direct the move
ment OF population will continue 10
operate. But supposing the supply
| OF labor and the population OF the
south 10 remain for many years as II
! is. and the circumstances attending
production and development to be
only moderately favorable, the south
gives fair promise of deriving annual
| " greater amount Of active surplus
as the results of industry than any
other section of the Union, and oil
thereby attaining TO degree of pros
perity which will enable its population
to become large consumers OF the
products of otherstates and countries
| This in turn must tend 70 increase the
general prosperity of the whole coun'
try, and TO extend trade and COM
merce within its borders.
Furthermore, the large amount OF
capital that has become available at
the south has, in large parts, been IN
vested in local and domestic enter.
prises, and in the establishment OF
manufactures on an extensive scale.
True diversity of employment has be-
come to the south, for the first time,
possible; and southern capital can be
advantageously applied to the manu-
facture of agricultural tools and I'M
plements, leather, wagons, wooden,
ware, soap, starch, clothing, and
similar materials. These are manu-,
facturers in which iron, steel and
cloth, are raw materials. They era-
ploy the largest amount of labor IN
proportion to product andcapital, and
warrant the payment Of high wages
The Alamo.
This grand old historic pile of
moss-covered stones, though long
neglected by the state of Texas, is
still remembered by the people of the
United States, because the noble sac
refce made therein upon the altar OF
liberty was made by brave men from
almost every state i'll the Union. We
copy from the American Register,
published at Washington City, an
article which we commend to our
legislature, now in session. 1t says;
The Alamo-the old stone cathedral
of San Antonio is the Thermopyl@
of the new world. Its story only
differs from that told of Leonidas and
his devoved band in the fact that OF
the1G5 defenders of the Alamo, against
1000 Mexicans, there WAS no suIvl-
vor to tell it in. Laced;emon that we
died here in obedience to her laws.
The Alamo was besieged through
eleven days and nights. At length,
when assaulted before day dawn on
every side, and when its garrison was
exhausted by constant dangers and
tolls, the MeXicans scaled the stone
walls enclosing the church. The COM
mander of the stronghold had con
suited his men. They had resolved
never to surrender. Bowio's body
was found pinned TO his bed of sick
ness by bayonets. Around the spo5
at which David Crockett served 49,
FOUNDER, MeXicans were heoped up
as if to constitute q fortress for the
invincible Tennesseean. Travis body
servant, Ben, was still living nine
years ago. His life was spared that
he might designate the bodies OF the
fallen chieftains. Mrs. Dickinson,
whose husband was a Connecticut
tradesmen and lieutenant Of volun-
teer company of San Antonio, occu-
pied small apartment IN the base |
ment of the church. Dickinson fell,
sword in hand, at the doorway to this
apartment. Almonte interposed and |
made the Infatuated drunken MeXicans |
spare Mrs. Dickinson and her child,
and this now venerable woman and !
the children of this daughter still
live in Austin, Texas.
"But we only proposed to say that
the Alamo is now occupied as a gro
Gerry store. 1t is in the business center
of San Antonio, and its owner would
sell the property, and, destroying the
old church, moss covered by time and
with memories illustrative of the valor
of Americans, erect new buildings on
the site. There are million and
quarter dollars in the treasury of
Texas, and the state only owes a debt
of four millions, fastened on it by the
carpet-bag oigarchy. and its failure
to buy and preserve the Alamo would
be afoul wrong to America fame and
deeds and history. If Texas be SO
false to her own pride of local history
and patriotism that this proudest