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tatlon from the CITY COUNCIL, looges
and 220 citizens. Representative
of these places made speeches favor
ling their respective places, Mr.. S
s. Munger expatiating at length Oh
how they would be treated at Lam
I pasas. A resolution was adop
ted leaving it to vote of the majority
of the entire vote, upon condition
that if no place received a majority
only a pluraliy-the place receiving
the smallest vote to be dropped anc
the vote to be taken over, with the
following result:
Temple. ......................4S
Lampasas. ................ Al
waco. ..........-. ."oc
The result not giving any place 6
maiarity, Waco was dropped, hav
ing the lowest vote, and the second
ballot was taken with the following
resault: Temple 81 Lampasas 6S
Lampasas being selected as the next
place Of meeting by a majority Of
seven votes.
Ex-Gov Lubbock presented Mrs
Lottie Efnor's poem, ''San Jacinto,s
Clarion Bells" and the Association
requested it lie read, and Gov. Lub
book was selected to read it which
he did with splendid effect, the large
assembly listening with rapt atten'
ton.
SAN JACINTO's CLARION BELL.
APRIL u, 1896.
| Again that cry struck fire to every ear
| Like instant magic meath the wizards sway
| As Smith, horseman-hurrledly drew near
| With news that YinceS bridge was cut away
And no escape afforded in the rear.
Our only safety Is, to slash and Stay,
| Fighting for our ives-Onward, thro' the foe
Charge, my boys! Remember the Alamo"
Remember the Alamo! Alamo!
Like flaming rockets shot up in the sky,
The very trees and Island seemed to throw
Back the watch word on wings o'wind-and
high
In one Simultaneous wild echo
Repeating DER like thunder, the war cry
Remember the Alamo! Alamo.
Alamo-Alamo-Alam
Grim vengeance was his rights-his price was
blood
Evn, murders, parent, shudF ring, stood
abashed.
As poured upon the foe this leaden flood
Till the first, round, and then their brains
were dashed,
In showers out, and scattered where they
As hand in hand, determined strugglers
slashed-
Through dense mass of flesh with bowie
knives
And, ike wheat before the sickel-fell the
lives.
battle it can scarce be called; this fight
Was more like sheep slaughter at the
After the foe faltering took to fight.
In consternation thro' the break and bram-
bleS
Mid the rank, waving grass tried to hide
from sight
While right and left the pursuer scrambles-
Still following mp their dreadful slaughter
While hundreds, fleeing sank i'll the cruel
water.
And on the South, in miry deep morass
Were men and horses dying and the dead.
Heaped together in one horrid bloody mass
For hundreds thlther, in their wounds had
fed
Whose groans, and cries, terrific were-Alas!
mat such chronicles, can with truth be
said;
But these were driven from the solid ground.
And, like the very swine in mire were
drowned.
When the rout became a general one
Twas then discovered Houston's horse had
reeled
And fallen. Nobly fallen when his work was
done.
To seven bullets his strong life did yield
Just as ,Jacinto's glorious day was won,
field,
And while dismounting tainted and then fell
From loss of blood, caused by shot or shell.
And when the gates of day was closed-night's
Ne'er ran down upon happier band of
The happiest feeling to the Tree born soul
That they and theirs would be no longer
slaves.
For Texas the great future would unroll,
All that the proudest heart eer feels or
Graves,
Tis their own land, untrameled, grand and
And every prompting fraught with liberty,
LoTTIE CAMERON EFNoR.
Hampstead Texas, April LIST, 1891.
Mr.. F. II. Ayers invited all the
veterans to visit Temple on the 10Th
and Both of June and participate in
celebration of the 10th anniversary
of the birth of Temple.
A resolution was adopted to the
effect that where veterans were un-
able to pay their dues, that their
names be continued on the roll.
Meeting adjourned to meet at the
Board of Trade rooms at s o'clock
this, Tuesday, morning.
The Methodist church was
crowded last night at the memorial
services, which were conducted by
Rev. ]. Il. Stribbling, of Rockdale,
assisted by Rev. E. Il. Harmon.
The memorial address in memory of
the Veterans, who have crossed the
dark river since the last reunion, by
Rev. j. II. Stribbling, was a touch
ing tribute, full of pathos, a perfect
literary gem, a combination of
prose and poetry interviewer in a
tribute worthy of the occasion, and a
beautiful eulogy of their heroic strug-
giles which made it possible for the
wilderness infested by Indians,
Mexicans and bowling beasts of prey
to be transformed into the growing
cities and prosperous settlements Of
the present. The services were con-
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