The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-17

Indianapolis Sentinel.
 The brilliancy of the old Senate days seemed to have come back the other day when Joseph w. Bailey of Texas took part in the debate on the State hood bill. Of all the men now in the Senate there is none superior in ability to Senator Bailey, it's youngest member. He opposed the consollda- tion of New Mexico and Arizona, and was reminded by those who took the other view that while the area of the two Territories, if combtend, would be very great, Texas was still larger. It was then that he had an opportunity to speak of his State and to repel any suggestion of its division. Here is part of what he said, and 1t is mag nificent;
 But, MT. President, while from her proud eminence today she looks upon a future as bright with promise as ever beckoned a people to follow where fate and fortune lead, 1t is not so much the promise of the future as M Is the mem ory of a glorious past which appeals to her against division. She could partition her fertile valleys and her broad prairLes; she could apportion her thriving towns and growing cities: she could distribute her splendid pOpu- latton and her wonderful resources, but she could not divide the fadeless glory of those days that are past and gone. To which of her daughters could she assign, without irreparable injustice to all the others. the priceless inheri- tance of Goliad. the Alamo and San Jacinto? To which would she be- queath the name of Houston. and Austin. and Fanin, and Bowie ana Crockett? Sir, the fame of these men and their less illustrious but not less worthy comrades cannot be severed. They are the common glory of all men, and their names are written upon the tables of her grateful memory so that all time shall not efface them. The story of their mighty deeds which rescued Texas from the condition of a despised and oppressed Mexican pro- vince and made her a free and inde- pendent republic still rouses the blood of her men like the sound of trumpet and We would not forfeit the right to repeat 1t to our children even for many additional seats in this august assem- bly.
 The world has never witnessed Sublimer courage or a more unselfish patriotism than that which Eliminates almost every page in the early history of Texas. Students may know more about other battlehelds, but none was ever consecrated by the blood of braver men that those who fell at Goliad His torians 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 influence upon the happiness of the human race than all the conflicts which Established or subVerted the petty kingdoms of the ancient world Poets have not yet immortalized it in their most enduring verse, but the Alamo Is more resplendent with heroic sacrifice than was Thermopylae itself. because Thermopylae had her messenger of death, while Alamo had none"
 Thus it appears that real oratory has not perished from the earth. Neither Clay and Calhoun ever said a finer thing than this. And even Webster's s wondrous eulogy of Massachusetts is not more splendid than is this tribute to the glory of Texas. Webster was not a native of Massachusetts. but of New Hampshire, yet it was the State of his adoption that he defended against the attack of the eloquent Hayne and made famous. Bailey was born in Missis- sippi but it is the name of Texas that he flashes across the continent in words that will live as long as the his tory of the great State of the South west shall be read