The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-11-02

and the other an American. During the
excitement of this struggle the latter
gave birth to q daughter. who was
known as tho Child of the Alamo" I'M
til her death. which occurred in New
Orleans not q great many years ago
Then tender hearts. filled with the mem
DRY Of the struggle by Texans for lib
erty forgot the sinful life Of this wom-
ar and hurled the Child Of the Alamo"
in Texas soil
At the dawn Of the morning Travis saw
that Santa Anna had determined to carry
the Alamo by storm. Standing on the
wall amid showering bullets and the
curses and yeIls Of the assallants, he
made his men a speech. thrilling with
undaunted courage Colonel Potter, from
New York. who was q part Of that revo-
luton and died there not many years
ago wrote this speech in heroic poety:
arise. man the walls. our clarion bias.
Now sounds its final reveille.
This dawning morn viii be the last
our fated band will ever see
Welcome the Spartans death.
It's no despairing strife
We fall We die, bur our expiring breath
Is freedom breath Of life.
'To life but not to hone farewell.
Your trumpets clang, aud cannon roar,
And storning shout and clash of steel
ls ours. but not our country's knell
Welcome the Spartans death
Ills no despairing strife;
We fan we die. but our expiring breath
rs freedoms breath OF life.
"Uerc on this new Thermopylae
our monument shall tower on high.
Aud Alamo hereafter be
Ou bloodier fields the battle cry.
/ Welcome the Spariau's death.
Wis no despairing strife
We fal we die. but orr expiring breath
I lis freedoms breath Of life
Thus Travis from the ramparts spoke,
And when his warriors saw the foe,
+ Like whelmlng pillows moved below.
AT once each dauni}ess heart replied
! Welcome the Spartars death,
Tis no desnairine strife;
! We ram. we die, but our expiring breath
Is frecdom's breath of life.
"rhey come. like Autumn leaves they
fall,
Rut horde on horde they onward rush.
With CORY feet they mount the wall
IiN numbers the defenders crush
Welcome the spartan death,
his no despairing strife.
We fail we die hut our expiring breath
Is freedoms breath Of life.
"The last was felIed the fight to gain.
Well may the ruftians quake TO tell
How Travis and his hundred fell
Amid thousand focmen slain
They died the Spartans death.
Like brethren died.
And their expiring breath
Was freedoms breath Of life
If there was anything of prophecy in
this poetry. it was true and false. True
I In that at the battle OF san Jacinte,
which practically made Texas free, the
war cries We're Remember the Alamo.
"Remembel Golad." where a similar
massacre had occurred
Under this the wounded to death. IN
spircd to q new life struggled to his feet.
eyes. to deal one more death blow 10 his
enemies, and then fell face downward in
the dust for which lie died. No fatigue
reached the bodies OF men whose souls
We're thrilled by these watch words. All
| that was human was driven from them
except humanity.
Santa Anna at this battle was taken
prisoner and his life was spared. The
death of the spartan band a; % Alamo
was freedom breath Of life" But the
prophecy is false at the time Of my visit
! in that no monument est its shadow ON
the burning sands of the Alamo plaza
! To commemorate their dauntless courage.
! their heroic death. UNCLE " ILL.
(Thc poem given in this article would
mako n fine reCitation.)