The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-18
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE

The following sketch OF the first ami
versary of Texas Independence Day held
at Washington in 1881, was copied by
Miss Hally Ballinger Bryan, for the
Daughters of the Republic, from the Tel
egraph published al Columbia, on Tues
day, March p. 1887.
Second March Celebration at Washington
1897
AT twelve o'clock a procession of the
citizens was formed at Roberts hotel
by Colonel Wood.ief marshal Of the day.
which moved TO Mr. Gray's new building,
when the Declaration Of Independence
was read by Mr. w. H Mcfarland, and
an address delivered by James r Jenk-
ms, Esq. The company then sat down
10 an elegant dinner at Roberts hotel
H c. Hudson, Esq, being named pres
ident, and Robert NJ. Stephenson. ESD,
vice president the following regular and
volunteer toasts were drunk and the ev-
ening closed with a splendid ball:
a. our Country! It is Worth the Clio
rious Ransom Which Has Been Paid by
Freedoms Martyrs
- The Day We Celebrate! The First
Anniversary of Our National IndeDend-
ence! May it Long be Hailed With JOY
by Freemen as the Birthday of the Re
generation of the Mexican Republic"
g. The Memory of Stephen F. Austin
the Father Of His Country"
-. The Memories Of the Heroes Who
Have Fallen. Battling for the Rights and
Liberties of Texas
.. The Texas Air! The Sweet Guar
antee of Our National Honor and of Our
National Virtue.
BY the President: Colonel William R
Travis; He Lives in the Memory Of His
Countrymen! He Taught a Tyrant How
Freemen VIII Live and How Freemen
Can Die"
BY the President: Uncle Sans Big
Corn Field and His Son Sans Cotton
Patch! May They Soon be United in One
Great Plantation
BY Robert J. Glow. Esq: The La
mented Milan; One Of The First That
Fell in the Cause of Texas. Struggling for
Liberty. His Memory is Embalmed in the
Hearts Of Every Texan. a Monument
More Lasting Than Marble.
BY Thomas Gay. Esq: The Day We
Celebrate, the Declaration Of Independ-
eace. the First We Venerate. the Second.
We Pledge Our Lives. Our Fortunes. and
Our Sacred Honors to Sustain
BY Stephen R Roberts, Esq: sam
Houston the Man Who Is Contented 20
be Called sam and Who Has Proved 10 be
q Sans Son TO the Enemies OF Texas"
by William 3. Scates, Esq: Texas,
the Home Of the Brave, the Asylum Of
the Oppressed"
by William B. Smith: Texas. the
Garden q the World. May Her Sons be
Intelligent. Honest and Patriotic: Her
Daughters Comely. Prudent and Scien-
tifc; Her Statesmen Wise, Ingenious and
Naguanim0us. Her D.vines Sapient. De-
won't and Generous; Her Territory Large
Salubrious and Free; and Her Govern
ment Founded en- the Pillars Of Justice
Lanity. Economy and Equality; Then
VIII She Form a Rampant over Which
Tyrants Shall Never Pass
by ". W. Grant. Esq; Texas. the
Second Of Morch. 1856. and Texas Now. By
Her Annual Return from Her Hitherto
Cnpresc-ibed Or0tc, She Has Proved 70
the World That She IS no Transient Me-
teor,'
Santiago. de Chill March L, via Gal
weston. Textile United States training
ship Hartford. Commodore Fa-raguts old
flag ship. which left san Francisco jan
uary 10 Tor New York with 80 man o.
board under Commander Hauley. and
which recently arrived al Valparaiso. has
sailed from this port for Montevfdeo.
They say that the ostrich can digest stonee
sud broken glass We wonder Il an Ostrich
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