The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-15
SPEECH Of JAS. {. DUDLEY.
aueIlvered at the Atlanta Exposition
on TEXAS Day.
TEXAS GOVERNED BY THE PEOPLE
vssn N. Foundation Of the First Set
tismeat On Ma a<ords Bay.
Third Term lmpossible.

4 December ii:
In the early part of the seventeenth
eentury the settlement and colonization
OF America by bngnsh compah.ss began
70 take hold aud assume snape al james
town and Plymouth. These settlements
In the new word attracted the atteh'
ton OF all Europe, aud especially OF
Cl4ss of haruy lUerty-ioyiBg people, VINO
hated kings, and despised Iyrau! and IN
}. tolerance. Other co.Onle5, composed Oh
the salne class of people, were destined
soon to follow, and after the accession
Of James III to tae throne OF England,
and the repeal of the edlct OF Nantes
BY LOUIS XIV q storm of religious per
secutiun broke forth IN Eugaud ani
France, and thousands of Professionals
fled to Holland aud Germany. Winnie
others sought the wllds OF North Amer
lea, where they could breathe the air
of freedom and be beyond the reach OF
81 intolerance.
About this time, 1856. q French col
epy. composed of emigrants from France,
led by La Sale, who were seeking an
asylum Ia this Western world, de,ing
from the intolerance Of their own coun-
try, and designing 10 found settlement
in the delta al the Mississippi, lost thr,r
way, sailed past il aud Landed ii Mata-
gorda Bay and there established Fort
st Louis on tho Bavaca. This WAS the
4 first white settlement In what is now
known as Texas. -Four years later, this
Z by De Leon. a Spanish officer, and the
mission Of San Francisco established on
its site. In MA the French again at
tempted to settle Il colony in Texas.
through the fundamentally of St Den
mis-, but he was taken prisoner by the
Spanish governor OF Coahula, and, 70
secure his freedom, became an apoSlate,
married the daughter of the coIhllandaut
OF the Spanish mission Sau Juan and
introduced the Spanish missionaries into
Texas, who established Il number Of
missions. Il can not be doubted that
these early colonial pioneers Iespi-pi
kiDg-craft, aud denied the divine right
of any person TO govern, and in the
formation Of this government which fui-
lowed, the cardinal principles which were
laid at the foundation ~ our Institutions
were. that tho people gre the eOurcp Of nll
potica! power; that NIL governments
should rest upon the consent OF the GOV
erntd. That public officers are but the
servants of the people. aud thut q people
the least governed. consistent with The
tights OF Others, are the best governed.
Ont of these cardinal principles hfyc
necessarily been evolved two more, which
are Interviewer with and become % part
of the warp and woof ~ our republican,
form Of government one of these is
what Is known "a the Monroe doctrine,
which declares our opposition 70 Euro
penn governments eNipuGuc their system
part OF our unwrttcn constitution
which forh;ds aug man. however
great from holding the Office 90
president Of the United States
for third term. Any attempt
Oh the part of a European nation 10 ex-
tend it, government on this continent
can not be regarded by the United states
other than as menace TO our relubli-
can form Of government, and can not
be allowed.
When a man has been chosen chief
executive OF fhs government has hylI
The highest Office within the rit II th.
reople for one term, and fcn, hy re-e'.,-
tiou, has received the plaudias 0f p c~ato.
frl neoplc We'll dome tiou good and
faithful seryant' be has hld Aouu~s
enogeh and Is entitled 10 10 more. SO
man - ind ,pelsab.r IN & republican, form
Of government, and no man ever vet
he'd position that cnuld pot be- eI.f
just as well by come other man a it.
people. jealous Of their liberties. can
not afford TO approach the danger M.r
unier the plea Of necessity.
Nsnoleon. he First ia HE amb'ur %.
craved TO be- emperor Of Frnuce 81 .