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He sprang to his feet and said to Burleson, as he saluted him: 'The sun of Austerlitz has risen again. "Some one brought him a piece of cornbread and broiled beef. He sat upon the grass and ate it or rather upon the blue hyacinths that covered the grass; they are red now. For many weeks I had not seen his countenance so bright; all traces of trouble and anxiety were gone.
The heavy reinforcements, promised by Santa Anna, had not come. A great clamor for an immediate attack arose. The citizen army gathered in hundreds around the tent of Burleson, the leader, and demanded that they be led against San Antonio. Fannin and Milam were there, and they seconded the demands of the men. Ned stood on the outskirts of the crowd.
"Oh! may God help you in the coming strife, and adjudge victory to the side of justice and liberty." "Apparently the chances are against us, Miss Irving; yet I regard the future without apprehension, for the Texans are fearless, and General Burleson in every respect worthy the confidence reposed in him.
I knew that he was an intellectual dugout spreading the canvas of a seventy-four, that there was precious little to him but gab and gall; but I did not suppose that he was an habitual falsifier and guilty of base ingratitude. I really hope that Dr. Burleson may be mistaken that the new boss of Baylor has not contracted such a habit of lying that it is utterly impossible for him to tell the truth.
There would be no Baylor University to-day but for Dr. Burleson; yet after nearly half a century of service, he has been pitched out and humiliated and lied about by creatures who are not worthy to breathe the same atmosphere. The Baptist fight is none of mine; but I am the champion of fair play; and I say here that even in his so-called "dotage," Dr.
Who'll hear my prayers? And half a dozen of the boys said, 'I will, and he knelt down at the knee of Bill Burleson, and clasped his hands and said 'Our Father; and I tell you, sir, there wasn't a dry eye in camp when the little chap said 'Amen. And I don't believe there was an oath or a bad word said that night; every one felt as if there was an angel among us." "Thank you, John Millard.
If the autobiography of a letter trying to work its way through from Philadelphia to Northampton, Massachusetts, could be written down if all the details of just what happened to it slumped into corners on platforms what happened to it in slides, in slots and pigeon-holes, in mail bags on noisy city sidewalks, in freight cars on awful silent sidings in the night, in depots, in junctions if all the long story of this one letter could be written like the Lord's Prayer on a thumb nail and could be put in that little hole of information stamped on the envelope what is it that the little autobiography of the letter would do to Albert Sidney Burleson?
Burleson had consented to the demand of the men. It was quickly arranged that they should attack San Antonio in the morning, and risk everything on the cast. The short day it was winter now was spent in preparations. Ned and his comrades cleaned their rifles and pistols and provided themselves with double stores of ammunition.
The Texian militia, disgusted with their leader, Burleson, retreated in straggling parties across the Guadalupe; about four hundred men, consisting chiefly of the volunteers from New Orleans and the Mississippi, remained behind, besieging St Antonio, of which the garrison was nearly two thousand strong.
Burleson, even out of the mouths of his enemies, butt in in the way he does and interrupt truths with enough juice in them to make one Burleson, even one Burleson into twenty great men before a nation's eyes?
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