The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-09-12
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article entitled nayy Crockett. hy
Carl Hollidpy 10 witch there is an
erroneous statement as to moet iui
portAnt historical incident ~hich is
absolutely lncxcusable
II Mr. holiday had not taken she
slight care that would have beeu nc
cpsssry To has" correctly Informed
himself be should not have assumed
ia treat Of the career Of man who
was q participant ia th most heroic
incident ia The annals az history. for
bg his objectionable orrng bv ha. con.
Ected Ia many readers . false impress
sion and given go the CLOSE Of the
life Of navy Crockett tusp aud
colorng which Il il were true would
leave Be IN the annals ot tbe ordinar,
aud rob :, Of the uutsdiag splendor
which invests r.
The language used by the writer is.
AT he surrender Of the Alamo ia
that year t1S&Gl. he and the other
der of General Santa Anna
Now this means that the Moxioans
demanded the surrender OF the Ala
mo. that the demand was complied
with, and that, the defenders of the
fortress marched out and were shot
down. just as other garrsons Of sur
rendered forts have been.
Now. the facts OF the defense of
| the Alamo were just the reverse OF
these. and were such as to differenti-
| ate it from other defenses OF belea-
guered forts. and To lift it to a plane
Of action never before or since reach
ed by human valor.
! There was no surrender of the
| Alamo. If Mr. Holiday does not
| know this he Is the only man of even
| ordinary Intelligence now alive. In
| the south at least so far az the
! Chronicle is advised who does not
know it.
For ten days the little band of
| heroic defenders, surrounded by
twenty times their number, had
Knocked at every demand for their
| surrender. and hurled defiance at
their brutal and bIoodthirsty foes
They knew they faced inevitable
| death, for when the siege began
/ their intrepid young commander.
/ Travis, had drawn a line across the
| adobe floor with his sword and said,
Let every man who means 10 die
here step up to that line, and they
had marched up to it, all except
Bowie. who, sick on his cot, was lift
ed over the line, and the faith thus
plighted they kept even unto death,
for within that worn and battered
fortress they died unto the last man,
and, as has been most fifty said,
"Then and there taught mankind the
lesson of earth's loftiest martyr
dom"
No, Mr. Holiday, there was nc
Surrender of the Alamo For sixty
years historians have been perpetu-
ating the record of that fact. Poets
have embalmed it in deathless verse
and the story of the matchless sacri'
flee there laid on the altar of liberty
has been told by sire to son and by
dame TO daughter for more than three
score years and ten.
The men who defended the Alamo
died in it-nOt outside of it. The.
died fighting-not standing as tar
gets for their butchers. Not one wa
: left to tell the story of their heroism
= and Texas glories to be able TO cary
r upon the monument i'll her capltc
I grounds. erected to perpetuate thel
: fame, the inscription, eloquent in 1t
; truthfulness. and truthful in its eli
;. quence. "Thermopylae had her me:
e senger of defeat, the Alamo Ia
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