Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
FORT WORTH. TEXAS, FRIDAY NAY 49, 1883


erence before this battle worn rem
nant Of race that, almost gone, reloices
that you are here.
We bid you welcome, thrice welcome,
to this imposing capitol Of our state.
Whenever in ali time son Of Texas shall
behold lis vast proportions, pride will
come around him like mantle, and crys.
talizs devotion to his state. He will re-
member that he alao is Texsn, and will
be proud OF his state, proud Of her heroic
past, her vast donate her gre atresources,
her fruitful fields, and the glorious prom
Use OF prosperous future.
We envy no state, we hate no people.
No matter from whence you hail, If you
out maintain the dignity Of man, we clasp
you in the arms OF universal brother
hood and bid you welcome.
PREVENTED TO THE PEOPLE.
In front Of the new capitol and from the
steps thereof Colonel Abner Taylor OF
Chicago. the contractor, in speech to
10, 900 people presented the building TO
the people of Texas.
| Hon. Temple Houston, State Senator
and son Of General Sam Houston, hero Of
| the battle CT San Jscinto, delivered the
dedicstion Grafton, accepting the capitol
| on behalf OF the people of Texas.
| HoUsTON's SPEECH.
The address Of the Hon. Temple Hous-
ton was as follows:
The greatest OF states commits
| sioners met to ssy that she
accepts this building, aud henceforth
it shall be the haoitation OF her govern
ment. When the title to the noblest edi-
fee upon this hemisphere thus passes
from the builder to Texas reason ordains
8 brief reference to the deeds and times
that eyentuate in this occasion. Texas
has chsnged the site Of government
of,ener than any stste in the Union, or
any nation on this side the globe. Prior
to the transfer to this building the site Ct
the government of Texas has been
changed eleven times, to wit:
San Felipe, Washington, Har-
risburg, Galveston, Velasco, Columbia,
Houston, Austin, Washington q second
time, Houston q second time, and Austin
sgain, havinc been the successive seats
OF the government of Texas. The state
which to day enters this building stand:
sixth in population and seventh in taxa
BILE wealth among the sisterhood of states
that comprise the American union, snd
when the tribes are numbered In 1890 SHE
will stand third in population and fourth
in wealth, aud can honestly sit peerless
cen amid the prouiest. She has
A HISTORY ALL HER OWN,
wild, romsntic, heroic. Minstrels
lay never told CT deed
! more daring than her SONS have
wrought, nor even in castle hall haiti
harps Of bard hYmned praise Of purel
faith than that her legends bear. Chile
CT storms, tie nursing OF revolutions, thu
twilight Of her history made her soil thu
battlefield of freedom, her children tn,
crusaders OF liberty. Situsted ct re
mote angle Of the gulf, midway betweel
tie Aztec empire end the valley CT tb
Mississippi, she for awhile felt neithe
that spirit Of Spanish conquest which lai,
: in the Gust ct blow the empire of Mon
tezuma snd the empire Of the lucas; NO
that gentle spirit of colonization whicl
marked the footsteps OF Franc
and Br tain on this continent. But thi
| repose WAS brief. In 1922, shortly afte
, the conquest OF Mexico, the royal stand
ard of Spain was uufurled on Texas soil
Denkiviz and his glittering cavalry sven
from the Rio Grsnde to Mobile. a
paused not in his path. In vain might
THK FAIRKsT VALLEY SMILE,
or the noblest landscape WOO hin
: to stay. Gold alone wss deeme
> worth the Spaniard's while, az
in this farce quest he pillsge
all the Isles of the ocean and the two cor
tinents from California to Patagonie
However, il the occupancy of the pueblo
/. of Ysleta by Colorado in 1850 be regarde
as permanent, Texas WAS the first stat
: of the American Union to be settled, an,
. within her borders began the process G
change that has formed our country fror
. Q wilderness to an empire.
But the Spanish ascendancy RENAME
. Inactive until excited by, jealousy G
l French encoachments. On January
: 1855, Robert, cavalier de Is Sale, undo
commission from Louis XIV landed upo
Matagorde bay. The object OF the Frenc
:. was to establish colonies at the mouth {
! the Mississippi. The piercing mind G
. Is Sale saw thst from the CREST lake
!, the trend of the water she
} indicated the presenre of gres
9 valley in the center OF this continer
2 drained by the mightiest of rivers, and
= knew that this valley was the eeat {
empire. He knew that the measureleE
current on whose calm grandeur De Sol
gszed WAS the same which Margrate saw
{ and De Soto, like Columbus, died in p'
!. thetic ignorance Of the extent Of his di
u covery. How sad that so kni2htly OF
should
g SINK TO SLEEP
. in the bosom of that great stream whic
q he had persisted to fnd, and know NJ
whence came nor whittier went the dal
8 waters that over him rolled. Winds ar
. currents swept Is Sale. westward an
II he saw Texas where the gull, In veile
II magnifcence. breaks upon Matsgort
peninsula. The Frenchmsn's coloni,
scheme was fatile. Dissensions amor
= his followers, want Of support from Il
. home government, hostile, intracssb
p Iudisne,. and fnslly Spanish Intervention
~ extinguished the last vestige Of Frene
:, settlement upon Texas shores. But VINE
% disaster had done It's worst, and the ga
I. liant Frenchman read upon the wall Il
e handwriting, ne did not quail. Upon Il
!. banks of that great and mysterious riv'
y he would fad the faithful Detoni. an
= from him he would get aid which the oces
y failed to besr him and the fame {
9 civilization which he had lighted ouel
= NOS expire. Toward the upper Missil
= sippi and the great lakes he therefor
. bent his steps. He crossed the Lavsc
= the Colorado, the Bernard, Brszoe, S.
y Jscinto, Trinity and Neches. In the be
toms of the Litter stream
THE CAVALIER WAS AssAssINATID
y by his own followers. With him fell Il
Il 1 u