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its course lean minority OF bold men, who did
then, and will hereafter, confrola majority. Dr. A.
was always foremost in this measure, which in
few years has grown to be the great political ques-
tion of the age. With eloquence in good keep
ing with his personal and moral flrmness, we find
him before the walls of San Antonio in 1885, urging
hsfellow citizens to charge the enemy. Then we
see him presiding the first Republican Conven-
ton of her people then in 1896, we listened with
wonder and delight to his spirit stirring appeals to
the citizens of the United States, in company,
co-commissioner with the lamented Generals, Aus
tin and Wharton, invoking aid to a cause in which
they were sworn to succeed or perish; then we find
him the first speaker of the first constituted con-
gress, and subsequently the fearless and able Sec
retary of War and Navy under President Lamar.
All the stations he filed with patriotic single
ness of purpose, dignity of manner, and chlv-
airy of character, which universally won for him
in Texas, the envable appellation of the " old Ro-
man.


Such man Texas can never cease to revere,
while the friends of liberty, every where, will
award him place in the list of the loftiest patriots
of America