PAPERS OF fIR,\BEAU BUONAPARTE L,u.rAR 469 each one of u ha a. embled here with a due sense of our high obli- gations to God and. our Country, and that we shall be able to bring to bear upon our labors, all those exalted feelings and ennobling senti- ment which adorn and dignify bp.manity, and which the present as well as the future prospects of the Republic so imperiously require. Let me entreat you then, gentlemen, to put away from you every evil propensity and every elfi h consider.ntion that may stand in the way of a prompt and faithful discharge of duty. Let all private feuds be buried in the public good. Let there be no envy-no rivalry save in the sacrifice which each hall make for the weal 0£ all. Influenced bv these feelings-animated a I ]mow you will be, by patriotism, and guided in your council by wisdom, your constituents will anticipate the bappie t results. They will look forward to the pleasing period, when, "grim visaged war shall smoothe his wrinkled front"-\vhen the sun of peace shall shed its vivifying beams over our quieted land -when our green fields snall wave with the luxuriant harvest--when our Commerce shall ride dolphin-like u.pon the distant waters, and Texas the morning star of nations, shall exhibit to an admiring. world her unrivalled resources, as boundle s as her beauty, and all guarded and enjoyed by a virtuous and enlightened race of heroes, who ac- knowledge no master but God and who wear no b9nds but death. Gentlemen, I should be doing injustice to my own feelings if I were to resume my seat without paying to my predecessor in office, that tribute of respect, to \.vhich he is justly_entitled by his publie as well as his private virtue . Through the period of a long life, the ex-vice pre ideot, Governor Zavalla, has been the umvaverincr and consistent friend of libera1 principles and free government. Among the first movers of the revolution of his native country, he bas never departed from the pure and acred principles upon which it was originally founded. His steady and undeviating devotion to the holy cause of liberty bas been amply rewarded by the high confidence of the virtu- ous portion of two republic . 'rbe gentleman; the scholar and the patriot, he goes into retirement, with the undivided affections of his fellow-citizens; and I kno11· gentlemen, that I only express your own feelings, when I say, that it is the wish of every member of this as- se·mbly that the evening of his days be as tranquil and happy, as the meridian of his life has been useful and honorable. · No. 467 1836 Oct. 22, S 1 HOUSTO , [COLUMBIA, T£XAS] 0 "The President's Ina 1gural address." Printed. In no. 478a, p. 2. · No. 468 1836 Oct. 24, W[ILLISl ROBERTS, 10'.BILE, [ALABAl\lA] TO IIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAlifAR, [COLU 'ffilA, TEXAS] Congratulations; eommending to Lamar's guardianship his son, Reuben H. Roberts. A. L. S. 2 p. "Printed in Niles, J . M., South America an(L Mexico, I, 357; the House Jou.rnal, first congress, first session, 1836, 65.
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