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PAPERS OF MmABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
Corps of an Army than by their corresponding numeration.- t, What would have done a Xerxes, a Darius, an Alexander the Great a Julius Caesar, or a Napoleon, with the establishment of a :Military Calender, 1 all the Saint of the Gregorian would not have sufficed, to designate the Corps of their Armies.-
No. 192
1834 Dec. 13, THE TEXAS REPUBLICAN, BRAZORIA, [TEXAS]
Volume 1, no. 17, containing: Smith's "Explanatory Remarks" . . . of rNov., 1834], Wharton's" Card" of Nov. 9 and letter of Dec. 8; etc. Printed. 4 p. See nos. 187, 189, 190.
No. 193
[1834?], ANONYMOUS
"Wars in -Texas for the last 25 years." Newspaper clipping.
No. 194
[1835 Jan.?, M. B. LAMAR, l\'.[O:1-fTGOMERY COUNTY, ALA- BAMAl. SPEECH AT A PUBLIC DINNER; STATE RIGHTS; THE KILLING OF OWENS; AGAINST WAR WITH FRANCE; JACKSON'S CHARACTER Above three years ago, whilst on a visit to tltis State, I had the honor of sharing your hospitality and participating with you in freedom's annual festival. Since that time many political changes have taken place; feuds have arisen - scisms have sprung up and strifes have ensued; all operating disasterously to the spread of truth and to the growth of correct principles. When I left here in 1830, the advocates of free government could boast of a decided majority in Montgome1·y; but from some cause unknown to me, the political power of the County seems to have passed into the hands of the Submission portion of its population. It has always been to me a matter of regret, that the friends of liberty are more liable to distruction than its foes. Yet such is the fact. The hystory of every party that ever existed, goes to pl'Ove that all combinaticns formed ror virtuous purposes, have less of the adhesive principle, than such as are organized upon the baser feelings of nature. 1\Ten of desperate fortunes. linked together for desperate ends, will always cling to each other with more perti- nacity, than men of honorable minds, associated in an honorable cause, who have no seJ,6l:!h schemes to accomplish. I account for it in no other way than that our evil pai,sion are stronger & more controling than our better propensities. But there are exalted exceptions to this gen- eral infirmity; & I look upon you as su'Ch. I since~ely hope that the JS-Library.
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