San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-05-02

Next wo have the namo OF David e..
Burnet, tho first president Of Texas
after independence had been de-
clared. He was q native OF New
Jersey and q brother OF Judge jacob
Burnet OF Ohio We next recall tho
name of Royal 7, Wheeler, chief
justice of the Republic Of Texas. He,
too, was native of Connecticut aud
camo south when young man via
Ohio and Indiana.
Turning oyer now the department
OF biographies in Thrall's History Of
Texas, we add the following names,
more or less distinguished in early
Texas history-in many instances no
nativity is given, or they would have
been more numerous: Ebenezor
Allen from Maine, secretary Of state
under Jones administration; Gail
Borden, of New York, who started in
1885 the Ieras Telegraph, the first
permanent newspaper in Texas, and
became noted for his condensed milk
patent; his brothers John p. aud
Thos H., also men of note; WIN. L.
Cazueau, of Boston, commissary
general nnder President Lamars 0d-
ministralion and member of Congress;
the Giddings family, comprising half
n dozen or moro men of note, from
Pennsylvania DIR. Arson Jones, Of
Massachusetts, the last president of
the republic, prior to annexation
having also filed many other posi-
tons of honor both civil and military;
David S. Kaufman, of Pennsylvania,
member of congress, both of the re-
public and state; George W. Ken
dali, of New England, founder of the
New Orleans P,cdyuuc and historian
of the Santa Fe expedition; James
Kerr, of Missouri, eminent in pioneer
public life; II. l.. Kinney. of Penn
sylvania, one of the founders Of Cor
pus Christi, member of tho legisla-
ture after annexation, ETC.; DR.. Fran
els Moore, Jr., of New York, for
twenty years editor of the TcrdS
Telegraph, then the leading newspa-
per in the republic, also member Of
the legislature, etc; Elisha NJ. Pease,
Of Connecticut, governor Of Texas,
ETC.; Timothy Pillsbury from Maine,
the first reprec entative Of West Texas
in the United States Congress Jas.
w. Robinson, of Ohio, lieutenant
governor under the pyov,s ora gov
eminent, and fought at San Jacinto;
Sidney Sherman, of Massachusetts,
descendant of Roger Sherman of
Revolutionary fame, came to Texas
Gt the call for volunteers, engaged
actively in the military service, at
San Jacinto commanded tho left
wing und opened the onslaught and
was the first to sound the war.cry:
"Remember the AlaR1O! GOHad and
tie Alamo J.; also built the first rail
road in Texas; Dr. Ashbel Smith,
of Connecticut, surgoon-general OF
the Texas army, minister to France,
etc. To these we add the name of
Col. Reuben NJ. Potter, of New
long honorably connected
with the public service Of Texas, and
author of The Hymn of the Alamo
the only respectable poem on that
grand topic, also of the famous mot
tos on tho Alamo monument, which
stood in tho ycstibule Of the old cap
itol at Austin, and WIS destroyed
when that edifco was burned by fire
II few years since.
The above list probably does not
nearly all of the North
ern men of note who assisted
in the upbuilding of the republic and
state, to say nothing Of the number
less rank aud file of the Same stick.
What, then, in the eye of reason be-
comes of the prejudice against men
of that section? Can any Texan Gf-
ford to indulge in it! Ii, as We
think is not unlikely, this element
was potent in giving Texas her pre-
eminent position as the patron OF
free schools, who will say they did !
not serve their adopted country well
in so doing? We pity the Texan
who will say nay, or who carries his |
sectional feelings SO far as to sdgma-
lie some Of the very founders Of his /
state and many others of her WORTH
est and foremost statesmen and |
patriots.
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