Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14
BIT OF STATE PRIDE.
Texans Carry Oh the HonOrs In the Schools Of
the Eastern and Middle States.

Texans Carry Oh the Honors In the Schools Of
the Eastern and Middle States
For the Gazette.
1t is an incontrovertible fact that
Texans, among the pupils of the Eastern
and Middle states schools, as a rule
bear off the honors. I have not at hand
statistics to prove by numerical tables
the assertion, nor do I recall a sufficient
number of individual cases to convince
the incredulous. but I challenge unpreju-
diced investigation of the matter, and
think 1 give q few of the raisons d!etre.
Heredity holds good in mental and moral
constitution no less than in physi cal; we
perpetuate idiosyncrasies of the brain
aud heart, as palpably as those of the
body. "Like father, like son, ga
chip off the old block, - are 'saws' as
laden with sound sense as with antiquity.
1t took men and women of marked indi-
viduality, of iron will and ambitious
soul, to undertake the dangers, priya-
tions and uncertainties of pioneering to
make an empire, and then reduce it TO a
state. 1t takes sons and daughters of
intellectual supremacy from the self
praised class moulded scions of
the elder generations. Any
new country is -. the 81 dorado
of fortune hunters = the rendezvous of
adventurers, the natural stamping
ground of bold, audacious, ambitious
men, OF courageous, enduring, sound
nsrved women. An uupossessed coun-S
try attracts the interest, the cupiditygsf
the self-appropriating, like a green
grove in prairie town attracts birds
and children.
The Isolated, staguant Isle of Corsica
was too small field for the - Little
Corporal 81 ambition. Napoleon made
the French empire, not France Ma
poleon. If he had not been the most
daring, imperious creature that ever
lived, he would not have undertaken
such an herculean task. He failed in
Just so much as his Godhood failed; all
that mortality could do and dare, he did.
The lauguid, torrid land of Mexico
could never have made a Macmillan,
its breadth OF territory, its Catholic IA
nRticism, its Castilian arrogance
and Meztizo treachery would have
awed and unneTved u spirit less bold,
tenacious.
his arm ike BOudpaEIe s. I6ll snort
Of its direction, only in so much as he
was man, not God. One died in exile
and prison 1.-THE other was shot into his
grave, but the effulgent glory of the men
aud their cause will shine while the sun
shines.
The battle of Rheims did not make
Joan of Arc; she made the coronation
there. She was a fanatic, but she !
caught thrice at the skirts of omnipo-
tence. She was betrayed and burntsrss
the stake, but the people to-day in whose
veins runs no drop of the blood she died
TO ransom, weep at the portrayal of her
martyrdom on the mimic stage.
But, to descend to cases some
what parallel. Wellington succeeded
because he undertook only tie
possible; the heroic, indeed but
the earthbound. So did Won Holtke,
George Washington, Thomas JEFFERSON,
Cromwell and sherman. So Sdid the 4
heroes of the Alamo! They died-bpeg
their individual extinction no m6Hesfih-
peded the triumphial march of their
cause than did Christ's erucifxion oul
the hands of His ''peeuliar people -
Socrates fall at the death-fraught hem-
lock cup, or Jefferson Davis twenty