Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-02-12

an unpleasant controversy. That, how
ever. is merely Introductory to an in
cidcnt which occurred in the United
States Senate Tuesday The state
hood bill was under discussion and the
Texas senator had the floor Perhaps
he remembered President Alderman S
query. or it may DC that oratory is one
Iof his weaknesses. in any event he
! launched out into a panegyric of his
native State which enthralled the
siaid senator's and reminded the en-
terprising newspaper correspondents
OF the old days when Webster. Clay
lana Calhoun thrilled the Senate with
their eloqucnce.
AS Mr.. baleys little apus,roplie TO
the Lone Star State really is a gem.
we reproduce it from The columns or
the esteemed Congressional Record:
Som" senators have expressed a
friendly solictudr that We would SOm,,
day avail ourselves Of the privilege ac-
corded to us by tho resolution under
which We were admitted to the Union
and divide our State into five. Other
sc1iatCrs have seemed to think il n
ground Of Just complaint that have
considered il my duty to oppose the
consolidation OF two Territories into
one State without advocating divis-
ion Of Texas The same reasons which
viii satisfy our solicitous friends that
their hope for a division of Texas can
never be realized Will also relieve me
~, 1,nr bo ~
has NOR" than once been insinuated
against me in the course Of this dc.
bate
IF Texas had contained Il popu.a-
ton il, Sl5 sufficient to have justified
her admission rs five States. it is my
opinion that she would have been 50
admitted then, because the aIl-ahsorb-
ing slavery issuc-which happailv. no
longer vcxcs us. but Which completely
dominated American politics at that
timc--w would have led to that result
will 20 further even than that. and |
will say that if Texas were now five
States. there would not be five men in
either State who would seriously pro
pose their consolidation into one. But.
sir. Texas was not divided in the be-
ginning: Texas is not divided now:
and under the providence OF God she
vii! not be divided until the end OF
time. Her position is exceptional. and
rNcitcs within the minds OF all her cit
liens Just and natural pride. She is
now the greatest Of all the States in
area. and certain to become the great
est OF all in population, wealth. and in
Eucncr With such 4 primacy assured
I" her. She could not be expected to
surrender il even to obtain an in
creased representation in this body.
'Hut. Mr. Presidents while from her
proud amincnce today she looks upon
a future as bright With promise as
ever heckoncd a people TO follow
where fate ami fortune lead it is not
so much the promise OF the future as
II IS tho memory OF a glorious past
which appeals TO her against division
She could partition her fertile valleys
ana hel broad prarics: she could ap-
portion hrr thriving towns and grow
in: cities: she could distribute her
}Spien!ld population and her wonderful
resources but she could not divide the
1adclGSs glory Of those days that are
past ana zone. To which OF hcl. ,laugh-
'"rS could she assign, without irrepar-
able injustice 10 all the others. the
priceless inheritance ct Gtllad the
Alamo. and San .Iacinto? TO which
would she hcQueath the name OF Hous-
ton. and Austin. and Fannin. and
linwi". ana Crockett? Sir. the fame
81 these men and their less illus1riuus
I'u' not less worthy comrades cannot
hc severed They are Tie common
glory OF all. and their names are writ
Ten npon the tables OF her grateful
inciHGry So that all time shall not Ct
lace them. Tho story Of their mighty
deeds which rescued Texas from the
condition OF a ilcSpiSed and oppressed
Mexican province and made her free
and inde pendent republic still ronscs
tho blood OF her men like the SOUND
OF q. trumpet. AMI VIC would not forfeit
me right &c repeat it e our children
even for many additional seats in this
august assembly
lie world has never witnessed a
subliner courage or a more unselGsh
patriotism than that which Eliminates
almost every page i'll the early history
loi Texas. Students may know moro
about other battlrtie!ls but none was
ever ccnsecratcd BY the blood OF
drawer men than those who fell at Co
had. Historians may not record it as
one OF their great and decisive battles,
but the victory OF the Texans at San
Jacinto is destined to exert a better
lnt!nenc" upon the happiness Of the
human race Lnan all the conflicts
which established or subycrteu The
petty kingdoms Of the ancient world
Poets have not yet immortalized it in
their most enduring Verse. but the
Alamo is more Respondent with heroic
sacrifice than was Thermoyplac itself.
because 'rhcrmopy!ae had her mcsscn-
sei. Ct death. while the Alamo had
none.
''Mr. President. if 7 might be permit