The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28
bloody border! These women of our
early days in Texes were the un-
crowned heroines of the republic!
BRAVERY IN FRONTIER WAR.

BRAVERY IN FRONTIER WAR.
shall never forget the thrilling re-
cital to me of that splendid ranger,
General BenMcCullough the Murat of
our revolution-in the presence of that
other splendid soldier, Major Erath-
both OF whose "tents were long ago
spread on fame's eternal camping
ground"-of how, in one of the fierc
est Indian battles of the frontier of
Texas mother, hearing of her
wounded boy ranger, rode all night
long in hostile land to see her dying
child; of how she came on the swift
footed mustang of the desert in time
to pillow that boys head on her
breast, to kiss his white lips and to
tell him to be courageous in his last
battle, and to commend him to God
and the memory of his country; of
how, with fearless eyes, she said to
Mccullough and Erath: 81 have only
one more boy; take him, and IL need
be let him, too, die for Texas and his
country"
Was there In the knightly days OF
old, of which we read in Romance and
song, a nobler type of womanhood,
SURPRISING even those Spartan and
Roman mothers who welcomed their
dead soldier IONS on their country's
shields from their country's battle
fields, as we have read in the stirring
epic? Shall pass down decade of
our history-from 1885 to l845-from
our republic to that day when we be.
came by treaty one of the sisterhood
of states to this auspicious hour In
1893? The women of Texas have IL.
lustrated that history and our marvel
GUS progress, which, when we consid-
or her youth, 80 to speak, In state
hood, places her in the very front of
American states.
INDEBTED TO THEIR MOTHERS.
Men of Texas, you know right well
to whom you are indebted for those
silent but potent agencies of all good
ness and true greatness In the state.
II belongs to the womanDod of
Texas. may be pardoned for select
ing ne bright illustration of that
womahood-the wife OF the "Hero of
San Jacinto.n If she were living her
modest and Christian nobility and
her splendid womanhood would have
buruuh lrOu tu0 IuoutlOu VI uoT ndLu6.
She is bright object lesson for our
theme. The wonderful soldier and
still greater statesman, General "Sam
Houston," from the governorship of
Tennessee to the chieftainship of an
Indian tribe in the far west and from
"horses hoe" battle to the field of San
Jacinto had led stormy life of danger
snd dissipation. After he was the
president of the Republic of Texas
this noble woman met the hero of
Texas and he became her prisoner,
not of war, but willing captive to
one of the purest and brightest of
Texas or American womanhood.
All Texans know that, with far
greater tact and skill and loving pow
or than Parthenia brought to Ingo-
mar, she changed the'wiole course Of
that hero's life. He walked with her
to Gods temples, worshiping at their
holy altars and shrines, and whether
in the senate hall or in the executive
chair of state became the model OF the
Christian hero. That great man:
whose name In our state and In Ten
nessee and In the Union will lot soon
perish from the memories os men, at.
ribu ed his entirereformation to that
culturd wife.