Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-05
OLD TIMES IN TEXAS.
Celebration of Independence Day in wash
ington County Forty-Seven Years Ago.
From the Brenham Banner.l

From the Brenham Banner.l
/ find, in looking over volume of
the "TelI graph published in Column
bia, Brazoria county, March 81, 1887,
the following, which may be interest
ing to your readers in old Washington
county, which was one OF the first
twenty-three created by the first con-
gress of the republic of Texas:
"At II o'clock procession of the
citizens were formed at Roberts hotel,
by Col. Woodlief. marshal of the day,
which moved to Mr.. Craps new build
ing, where the Declaration of INDIE
pendence was read by w. Y. MclFar.
land, Esq, and an address delivered
by James II. Jenkins, Esq, The COM
pany then sat down to an excellent
dinner at Roberts hotel.
III G. Hudson, Esq, being named
president and Robert NJ. Stevenson,
Esq. vice-president, the following
regular and volunteer toasts were
drank, and the evening closed with n
splendid ball.
list. Our country; it is worth the
glorious ransom which has been paid
freedoms martyrs.
I'D. The day we celebrate the first
anniversary of our national indepen-
dence; may il be long hailed with joy
by freemen as the birthday of the re-
generation of the Mexican republic.
ed. The memory of s. Il. Austin,
the father OF his country.
18th. The memories of the heroes
who have fallen battling for the rights
and liberties of Texas
18th. The Texas fair; the surest
guarantee of our valor and of our
national virtue
SPY the president-Colonel w. b.
Travis; he lives in the memory OF his
countrymen. He taught a tyrant how
freenen will live and how freemen
can die.
"By the vice-president-UncleS Sans
big corn field, and his son Sans cot
ton patch; may they soon be united in
one great plantation.
"By Robert J. Glow, Esq The Ia,
mented Milan, one of the i1rst that fell
in the cause OF Texas, struggling for
liberty, His memory is embalmed in
the heart Of every Texan, q monu-
ment more lasting than marble.
'By Thomas Gay, Esq.-The day we
celebrate, the declaration of independ-
ance; the first we Venerate; the last
we pledge our lives, our fortunes and
our sacred honor TO sustain.
l., BY stephen Il. Roberts, Esq.-Sam
Houston; the man who Is contented to
be called Sam, and who has proved n
Samson TO the enemies of Texas.
"By William b. Scates, Esq.-Texas;
the house of the brave, the asylum OF
the oppressed.
by DR.. VIM. I. Smith.-TeXas; the
garden of the world, may her sons be
intelligent and patriotic; her daugh'
tiers comedy, prudent and scientific; her
statesmen wise, ingenious and mag.
unanimous; her divines sapient, devoui
and generous; her territory large, salu-
brious and free; and her government
founded on pillars OF justice, lenity
economy and equality; then will sht
form rampant over which tyrants
shall never pass.
by w. w. Grant, Esq.-TeXas on
the ID of March '3G, and Texas now
By her annual return from her hither
to unprescribed orbit, she has proved
70 the world that she is no transient
meteor.n
, All of the old veterans above men
lioned think are dead, but Robert j
Glow. Thomas Gay WAS the one FOL
whom Gay Hill was named. and was
m same company with me at san ia
A eihlo. MOSES AUSTIN BRYAN.