The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-12

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aersuu. and around this monument,
/ are some modest slahs to the memory
81 private soldiers who fell Ia the bat
tie of Helena, and on these slabs are
/ recorded theH nnmcs and the state.
meni that they belonged to rarson a
Missouri Fighting brigade History
records that these private soldiers
died with unexpired furleurhs In
their pock It's, Therefore, they were
| not only twice volunteers. but they
gave their lives for the south and 10
/ their state.
Surely. the carpetbagger never
| came from Missouri. and II | were a
Missourian. as am not, | would lay.
with love. the history and traditions
| of loyalty t. the south of the Mis-
| sourian in the time of that war as
| the sweetest heritage upon the heart
| of a free man; and if | were a native
| Missoui ian | would rebuke the SLAM
| derous insult of this man thus graz
| uitously offered TO the state of my
nativity.
The carpetbagger did not come
| from Missouri. Personally | took NJ
affront at the statement as appli ID
| to me. ] am not carpetbagger from
anywhere. | was born amid the beau
tiful hills of Tennessee, in Wilson
county, where Deaf Smith was born
had "A great uncle killed at the Ala
mo and Texas has carved his name in
granite that it might endure while
| men revere patriotism and love lib
erty. ! had another uncle--Temple
| Harris-who marched to the music
of Come Into My Bower, Lady at
| San Jacinto. My mothers brother
Colonel Paul Anderson Old Paul,
as the rangers affectionately call him.
even now, at the beginning of the
| war came up from Goliad and went
with Terry to Woodsonville and was
| there when that spirit baptized with
| its inspiration whole regiment
whose warlike deeds will be remen-
| bered with a thrill of pride so long
as the language lives ] had a father,
a grandfather and seven uncles IL
| the Confederate army, and while
in my language because he yet sur
| wives, | feel that the citizenship of
| South Texas will pardon me in just
| pride in my claim OF kinship to Gao
| tain Sam S. Ashe of Houston. the
| noblest Roman of them all My faith
| er soldlered with Stearns and follow
ed and fought with Forrest, and
| therefore none of all his line can
| ever be a carpetbagger. | have never
| learned to love any other traditions
than those of my native state and OF
| the south. AS a boy, my mother
| taught me to plant pinks and pansies
and trail eglantines and roses over
the graves of Terry's Texas Rangers
| who sleep under the sod and the stars
in the valleys of Tennessee. And since
then until now, from childhood's lisp
ing Infancy to mans maturest years,
my lips have never ceased to muir
muir the prayer that Terry may rally
again his martial band In the great
beyond where the war drum shall be
heard no more and the flag Of peace
shall float unfurled forever
IF these feelings, II these affec-
tons. II these relations. II thees scn-
timents. constituting the bone and
sinew, the fabric and the fiber OF my
material and mental makeup, make