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HiEKDiRioir Mascb 1845.
To th9 Editor of the Register :
Sir:- On the 3d inst (the 2nd being the
Sabbath.) the Anniversary of the Declaration
of Texian Independence was celebrated by
the citizens of Rusk county according to pre-
vious arrangement at the house of Gen. James
Smith by a Barbecue and Ball. The assem-
blage of persons was large and the celebra-
tion conducted with a degree of order socia-
bility and patriotic feeling highly creditable
to those who met to do honor to correct prin-
ciples and illustrious men.
After an appropriate prayer by Rev. John
N. Bector and the reading of the Declaration
of Independence by Charles McGlarty Esq.
an' oratiou was delivered by S. Monroe Hyde
Esq. by previous request. At the conclusion
of which Col. T.J. Jennings of Nacogdoches
being loudly called for answered in a manner
satisfactory and interesting to all present by
a speech replete with eloquence aud patriotism.
Gen. James Smith then responded to the
wishes of the assemblage in a strain the in-
terest of which was materially enhanced by
the knowledge of all present of his services to
his country.
The undersigned acting as committee on
the part of those concerned in the celebration
have obtained from the Orator of the day a
copy of his address for publication in your
paper. The copy is herewith transmitted as
well as the subjoined sentiments offered on the
occasion of the celebration.
Yours respectfully .
JAS. A. S. PARSONS
WILLIAM HOGAN
JOHN P. GRIGSBY.
ADDRESS OF S. MONROE HYDE Esq.
Delivered at Skatcnee Town Rusk County
on Monday the 3d of March. 1S45 on the
occasion of the celebration of the Ninth
Anniversary of the Republic of Texas.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In responding to the call which has been
so kindly made on me to become the organ
of your sentiments of gratitude and patriotism
on this glorious anniversary I cannot be un-
mindful that you could readily have selected
a much better instrument from the crowd of
gentlemen of talent aud worth who surround
me fathers and elder sons of the Republic
whose mature aud vigorous minds whose
ardent and determined spirits contributed to
furmt to animate and to inspire that illustrious
council of Liberty which on this day nine
years ago declared to the world that TEXAS
was freb sovereign and Independent and
whose bold hearts and strong arms with those
of their compeers have proven the truth of
that declaration against all who have come to
question it in the great debate of War in
which Texiau swords have been unanswerable
arguments aud Texian rifles have wrought
conviction.
The causes that led to this great and im-
portatnfevent it is unnecessary to recapitulate
you have just heard them in those sacramen-
tal words which 1 will not profane by cir-
cumlocution ; they proclaim "in thoughts that
burn and words that hreathe" the intolerable
wrongs and injuries that were inflicted on us
by Mexican tyranny with Mexican cruelty
for which we could obtain no redress but by
an appeal to the God of battles. They left us
no alternative. Our powerful and boastful
enemy invaded lis both by land and by sea.
He came to sweep our country with the besom
of desolation.
Scarce had we declared our independence
ere the rush of a coming foe was heard the
sound of the battle horn was borne upon the
breeze. But from the bosom of our country
armed men came forth in spontaneous re-
sponse to the call of nature of honnr and of
patriotism. They marched in the sacred
cause of liberty : every class of the communi-
ty gave up its raembes and sent them armed
to the field to do battle for their struggling
eountry. . '
It is immpossibte for any man to tarn back
to that period without reviving those senti-
ments of tenderness and gratitude which then
beat in the publie inna : to recollect admidst
what applause what tears what prayers what
benedictions the patriots of '36 walked forth
amongst spectators agitated by the mingled
sensations of terror and of reliance of danger
and of protection imploring the blessings of
Heaven upon their Heads ana us conquest
upon their swords. They stood forth as the
champions of freedom. The banner .of the
Lone Stab was unfurled to the breeze and
beneath its folds on the red plain of San Jar
etnto Texas f your champions rushed in' a
reiisiltss flood apoa theV shrinluBf ibe
ganbetKof jbattk tift y ijjsW
GUwed in eh area K wits tifc aloas"
There that proad banner expanded before
high Heaven tlbe emblem of yoar triumph by
freedom sanctified. But ia the accomplish-
ment of that great awl gloria work a few of
thosa devoted hearts had the illtmrious for-
une of firing tfcert' ut toci'lM; ootrf
hhy ad their own aepulchrM.
"Shrined not entnni'd they rest in sacred earth
Hallowed by deeds or more than mortal worth';
What tho' to mark where sleeps heroic dust
Nosculntur'd trophies rise or breathing bust;
Theirs on the scene where valor's race was run
A prouder sepulchre the field tliey won."
Yes my countrymen the solemn declara-
tion of this day was sealed by the purest
blood of patriotism. And to prepare for it a
Milam a Bowie a Crockett a Travis and a
Fannin bled and died.
Yes f Texians of '36 ! you told the truth.
Texas then was and still i$ free sovereign
and independent ! and time and war the
defeat of your enemies and the expulsion of
your invaders have embalmed your declara-
tion iii the enduring records of time-defying
truth and consecrated this day in its annual
recurrences to joy and festivity to gratitude
and to thanksgiving to the great God of bat-
tles and of nation?.
The great statute of limitations enacted by
thejree in every land and nation has run its
course on your possession and quieted your
title to freedom ! This plea in your behalf as
it has been pleaded by the nations so will it
be sustained by them. But the merits of your
title the youths of my age and those still
younger and more and more yet to be born
and to come of a race that have always been
free will enable you to sustain and uphold
against the enemies of liberty and of man.
And now with free institutions an industrious
and enterprising people ardently devoted to
the cause of education and virtue aid religion
in a land unsurpassed in beauty and fertility
and climate what have we to ask of other
nations T Good will and commercial and
social intercourse on terms of reciprocity !
True we yet love our father land and though
twict rejected we would still delight to see our
Lone Star blaze in her hright and glorious
galaxy. But when it assumes its station there
it must still shed a lustre as brilliant as any of
them. As we have achieved freedom so we
intend to retain it. As our domestic institu
tions are now saje they must remain so. As
we have neither spent our store nor sinned
against our father so neither will we seek a
servants place even in his house.
REGULAR TOASTS.
1st. The day we celebrate the day that
first saw Texas free sovereign and indepen-
dent. 2d. The Patriots of the Texian Revolution.
Their names will be memorable as long as
the principles of civil liberty are appreciated'.
3rd. The plains of San Jacinto While
we remember the day that gave our enemies
destruction r we can never despair of the Re-'
public.
4th. The signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Their names are embalmed
in the great chart of 'Texian Liberty.
oth. The Freedom of the Press and the
Liberty of Speech the birth-right of freemen.
6th. Santa Anna overthrown what master
will the Mexicans have next?
7th. The other Nations. We ask of them
what we are willing to grant. Take off the
fetters from commerce f
8th. The free Star of Texas
Bright may it shine as long it has shown
Whether beaming with others or still blazing alone!
9th. Anson Jones President of Texas. '
An accomplished gentleman an able politi-
cian and an independent citizen ; our foreign
relations are safe in his hands even in their
present critical juncture.
10th. (Drank standing); The memory of
those who fell in the struggle for Texian Lib-
erty only less dear to us than liberty itself.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By Thos. J. Jennings. Our friend and
neighbor Gen. J.ames Smith. In war where
patriotism has called and danger invited no
man has gone before him I peace his public
spirited.exertions to advance the prosperity of
Rusk County and the Republic entitle us to
proclaim him his. country's friend. .
By Wm. Hogan. Gen. Thomas J. Rusk.
The will of the people and he in command.
7-Fy Gjr.M1$HHonr WfllianTB.
Ochiltree oar late tellow-coantiyman. Emi-
nent alike for firmness integrity and patriotism.
His country has called or his services and in
consideration of her gain-we are reconciled to
our loss. .
By S. Monroe. Hyde.The just boast of
Texas. Liberty regulated by the laws and
these sustained by the people. ti.
By Win. Hogan. Texas May she ably
contend for and easily maintain her rights
luuugu ii uc wiiii neruiuiirer iiep.UDtK..
piter hath dedicated Ajax to the sun.' This
Elephant was found with this inscription 350
years afterwards. Pigs have been known to
live to the age of thirty years; the rhinoceros
to twenty. A horse has been known to
live to the age of sixty-two but averages twen-
ty to thirty. Camels sometimes live to the
nffe of One Iltinrirprl vpnra. Stnorft nrA Inner.
lived. Sheep seldom exceed the age of ten.
Cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier con.
siders it probable that whales sometimes live
a thousand vears. Mr. Mallerton Ima the
skeleton of a swan that attained the age of
two hundred years. Pelicans are long Jived.
A tortoise has been known to live to the age
of one hundred and seven years.
ANNEXATION.
" Free trade and Farmer's rights."
Are the high souled citizens of the "Lone
Star Republic" so blind to their own in-
terests so dead to every sensation of na
tional pride so dazzled by the glitter ofJ
tins Dase com so delighted with this idea
of annexation as again to bow themselves
in lowly submission before the footstool of
that government in the vain hope that in
crooking the pliant hinges of the- knee
ionic wni louow tawmng
Already have we in offering to surren-
der our sovereigntyforfeited the confidence
and esteem of all great nations cast an
indellible stain upon our national escutch-
sword to its scabbard hold forth the Ol-
ive branch enter into commercial rela-
tions with Texas and from a bitter enemy
become a warm and steadfast friend.
This will heal the wounds of our bleeding
country secure the domestic hearth-stone
from rude invasion and enable' our hardy
sons of the west to return to therr long-deserted
homes- with the glorious certairity
of reclining peacebly under their own vines
and partaking without fear of molestation
of the fruit of their own fig-trees.
It will also place it in our power to mo-
nopolize the trade of New Mexico which
is now enjoyed exclusively by the United
States and which brought into that coun-
try last year nearly a half a million of spe-
cie. The distance from Vt. Louis. Mo-
. . ..
1100 miles and from
Fe. being
eon and furnished a
strong
j
argument
to
Age of Animals. A bear rarely' exceds
twenty years ; a dog lives twenty . years ; a
wolf twenty;: a fox fourteen or sixteen: lion
are loner-lhred Pompey lived to the age of
seventy years a squirrel or Hare seven pr
eight years; rabbits seven. Elephant have
been known to live to the great age of four
hundred years. When Alexander the Great
had conquered onVPorus King of Inai he
took a great Elephant which had fought al-'
iantly for the Kinr and named him Aiax.
dedicated him to the son and let him so with!
the enemies of republicanism that the oeo-
ple are incapable of self-government
Distrusted by allrand possessing the-confidence
of none; menaced by our arch-
enemy on the west and oppressed by the
exactions of the United States' tariff on
the east;: with Scylla on one side and Char-
ybdis on the other the position of Texas
is analogous to that of Britaiu at the time
she addressed that celebrated petition enti-
tled the "Groans of Britons" praying their
protection from the Picts and Scots " The
barbarians on the one hand" said they
" chase us into the sea the sea on the other
throws us back on the barbarians so that
we have only the hard choice left us of
perishing by the sword or by the waves."
Perilous as is our present position for
Texas there is yet balm in Gilead there is
a physician there.
The prohibitory duties levied bv the
governme'nfofthe United States' upon the
proaucts oi au ioreign nations nave ren-
dered a commercial connexion with that
country no longer desirable ; and the Eng-
glish'goverrmient anxious to secure an out
let for her manufactured articles and give
anadditionar impetus to that branch of her
national industry has signified a willing-
ness to form a more liberal treaty with Tex-
as than that which now exists betwen the
two countries a treaty purely reciprocal-
in its character perfectly harmless in a
political point of view being based upon
principles ot'commerciai reciprocity and of
a nature mutually advantageous to the
high contracting parties.
Under existing circumstances the peo-
ple of Texas besides contributing double
as much to support the government as it
requires to sustain their owny labor under
the disadvantages of being exposed to' the
tender mercies of the Shylbcks of tfiat
country who knife in hand "take the
pound of flesh nearest the heart" with as-
little sympathy as is displayed by the vul-
ture in devouring its prey.
The free trade treaty which England
proposes to form win render us paramount
to the one. and completely independent of
the other give our cotton growers pecuni
ary advantages of about 2 cents per pound
(the English duty)over the. cotton grow-
ers -in the 'United States and enable our
citizens to purchase their necessaries at a
- ' w0lr - . .-- .
cost approximating ow per cent less man
they are obtained in the U. States.
This new order of things: will rapidly
develops the resources of the country se-
cure the confidence of capitalists resuscitate-
national and individual credit quiek-
en the spirit ofenterprize open wide the
avenues of wealth and render Texas the
El Dorado of Nortfe America.
- She will be to the oppressed tax-ridden
crtizens of the South what the Land of
Promise was to the- Children of Israel':
and the tide of emigration will roll Niagara
to $anta
the mouth of the Rio Grande only 550
witn tne advantage of a water communi-
cation onAe side of Texas.
In a word under the Morions ausoices
of free trade the conclusion is irresistible
that our infant Republic will shake off its
swaddling cloth and soon become a great
and powerful nation. Her cities witt
count their teeming inhabitants by thou-
sands and her harbors will be white with
the sails and gay with the flags of the
most powerful maritime and commercial
nations in the world; and Galveston Ve-
lasco ana Matagorda will grow to be
mighty cities upon the means which have-
raised New York Boston and New Or-
leans Harrison Times.
It may not be superfluous to remark for the
information of our anxious friends in the coun-
try that the crowds of land buyers who are to
come from the XI. States and purchase every
acre of land to be had have not yet arrived.
A number were expected by the two last pack-
ets but did not come not having had time it is
supposed to count out their money for the
purpose. In the mean time we may say to
those desiring to purchase that all the lands are
not yet sold.
Seriously we see strong -reasons for be-
lieving that those who have supposed annexa-
tion would give a new impetus to speculation
will be disappointed. The land mania has-
died away in the United States ; and there are-
now thousands of acres of good lands there tcr
be hud at Government nrir.es : and much
which was taken up by speculators ten years-
ago may now be had at less than the original
cost. In New Orleans Sr. Louis and many
other cities and towns of the western country
property can be purchased which will pay a
handsome interest at present and promises to
increase in value as rapidly and far as any ift
Texas. NewOrleans has doubled her popula-
tion in ten years ; St Louis has trebled hers
and other places have improved even more
rapidly. Money may be invested in these
places in real estate covered by insurances
where the rents alone will pay from 10 to 20
percent per annumrand the appreciation ia
price may be counted upon with almost as-
much certainty as-the successions of the sea-
sons. It is scarcely to be expected that busi-
ness and practical men (and the money of the-
United States is now mostly in the hands.of
such persons) will reject investments of this
kind for speculations in 'wild lands where the
supply is almost inexhaustable and the de-
mand for actual cultivation is not likely to-
reach it for many generations. Annexation-
may be the means of introducing many good
citizens iuro the country and bringing into
cultivation? much land now waste; hut thoir-
sands of our citizens who are expecting to re-
alize fortunes by selling large tracts for high
prices' are irr the-mean time doomed" to disap-
pointment or we widely mistake the signs of
the times. Civilian.
like into this country bearing in its irre-
sistble- course wealthy enterprise and tal-
ent adding' to the real and prospective
wealth of the nation and enhancing the
value' of land almost dd infinitum.
Madome rumor moreover informs us
that the English government will guaran-
tee the recognition of ourJndepehdencr in
case we conclude this commercial alliance
this inscription: "Atamitohtfiffo wfiKt That Tffexico.witt wtartfThe
The Washington'Glohe fias never been
ranked amon the friends oUmmedmte an-
nexation but rather as an advocate of the
Bentonian policy of keeping the question'
long enough to elect another President of
the U. States upon it. The coolness
therefore with which it charges as an ob-
jection to the views of others the very mo-
tives which it exhibits itself is worthy of
remark.- In speaking of the resolutions re-
cently adopted by the: House of Represen-
tatives the Globe says
(The resolutions of the whig member
of the House do not give effect to the views
of the democracy in either branch oi Con-
gress;; but theydo that from which the re-
sults maytereacheiritfoigrA embarrass-
ed fry obstacles for y$srs."
A Simple Huh. Tv ascertain tile length
of the day and tht uigbt at any time of the
year double the tine of the saara rising
which gives the length of the night a" double
the tima.of settiui which girta taV feagth of-
the day.
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