Year: 1874

he closed his mastery cilurt. TO at
TEMPT to even convey an Idea OF them
would he unjust, both 10 the subject
and to the speaker Rarely have we
, heard anything more eloquent The
tear stained checks of many OF the mo-
ble old matrons present, atlesled the
force with which 1t had sunk into their
hearts.


Lieutenant Governor Hubbard, the
orator of Texas, was next introduced
by G. n. Aldredse, ESD 1t was the
first occasion on which we had ever
been privileged to hear the Lieutenant
governor, and we are constrained to
admit that in the charm of listening
We forgot the duty of reporting. te-
pete with power, patho', cloquence
and anecdote, it was fully up to all
that we hadN prepared ourselves
to hear, and added another
flower to the wreath of victory that
encircles the brow Of the eagle orator.
Governor Hubbard took for his text
the infamous talsehoods of that inta-
NOUS concave of birds of prey that sat
recently at Chattanooga, and showed,
7 by the conduct of the south since 1865
to the present time, that their State
ment that the south was .dislOyal and
ready and anxious to renew hostilitiss,
at the first favorable moment, was
without the shadow of foundatiohrih
fact. He said, and said it with his
own peculiar eloquence, that the north
west was calling to US to stand by her
in the civil contest for liberty, and
that the whole north was looking in
tently to see by our votes on the third
of November whether we were con-
scious of the fact that our neighboring
sister state Louisiana, was lying bleed
ing and in chains. Democratic votes
are the only appeal we can make
against this crowning outrage OF the
century, and II is the sacred duty
of every man of TeXas who loves free
dom and hates slavery, to enter his
protest through the ballot box at the
approach .ng election. 1t has rarely
been the fate of any body Of men to
get such an eXcoriatiOn as the lieu
tenant governor administered TO Da-
Wis and his Chattanooga confreres; he
summed it all up by pronouncing
them "the political scabs from the
smallpox of radicalism."


Lieutenant Governor Hubbard said
that il had been the purpose of Gov
ernor Coke to attend, but that his ex
cellency had been unavoidably kept
away, and that the duty of represent
ing the, state administration had de-
volved upon him. in appropriate and
fitting terms, he paid a well deserved
tribute to the honesty of purpose aud
integrity of Governor Coke's admins
tration. With n most eloquent pero-
ration against the division of the state,
Lieutenant Governor Hubbard closed
his speech, a speech that will be re-
mem bered as the standard to compare
other speeches with hereafter by the
thousands of absorbed listeners
that hung upon his eloquent words.


Major John Henry Brown next in
troCuced to the audience, Colonel
Isaac Parker, of Parker county, one of
the fathers of the state, now in his
eighty-second year, and with a Texas
record of fifty years. This aged patri-
arch, frail and tottering in person, but
with his soul still lighted warmly with
the love of liberty, proceeded to give
an interesting sketch of his own career,
of the trials and dangers he passed
through half century ago, of the
massacre, by the Indians, of his father
and brothers, near where the town Oh
Groesbeck now stands, and concluded
with impressing upon the men of this
generation the obligation there was
upon them to preserve those liberties
that have been secured through such
sacrifices aud dangers.


Colonel Parker was followed 10y
Judge Egan, of Shreveport, who was
very happily presented to the audience
by Colonel Holland. Judge Egan pre-
sented the case of Louisiana, and
showed the wrongs that have been
done her, and the infamy of the treat
meut that was now being imposed up
on her. If there was heart present
that had not formerly bled over The
iniquities that this oppressed people
have been made to submit to, we are
sure that it could no longer remain un-
touched.


Al the conclusion of Judge Egan's
address, the marshal of the day an
nounced that the hour of dinner had
arrived, and recess was taken to al
low the merits of the committee on
cooking to be tested. The test was
pronounced universally satisfactory.
After dinner, Colonel r. @ Mills de-
livered the closing speech of the day.
Our space does not allow us, in this
issue, to do justice to his able effort.
I'VE will, therefore, defer it till our
next.