. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. of Tennes-see. He gained a mil-itary fame in the Sem-inole War, then rose to political distinction, and was elected governor of his adopted with a domestic calamity, he suddenly resigned his office,left his home, and exiled himself among the Cherokees, by whom he wasmade a chief. Afterward he went to Texas, joined the patriots, and be-came a leading spirit in the struggle for independence. It was he whocommanded in the decisive battle of San Jacinto; he who became firstpresiden
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. of Tennes-see. He gained a mil-itary fame in the Sem-inole War, then rose to political distinction, and was elected governor of his adopted with a domestic calamity, he suddenly resigned his office,left his home, and exiled himself among the Cherokees, by whom he wasmade a chief. Afterward he went to Texas, joined the patriots, and be-came a leading spirit in the struggle for independence. It was he whocommanded in the decisive battle of San Jacinto; he who became firstpresident of Texas, and also her first representative in the Senate of theUnited States. Through all the misfortunes, dangers and trials of hislife his character stood like adamant. In the fall of 1859 the people of the United States were calledto mourn the death of Washington Irving, the Prince of Amer-ican Letters. For full fifty years the powers of his sublime geninshad been unremittingly devoted to the great work of creating for hisnative land a literature that should adorn and glorify his own and. GENERAL SAM HOUSTON. 478 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. after ages. On both sides of the Atlantic, in every civilized country,his name had become familiar as a household word. He it was, firstof all, who wrung from the reluctant and proscriptive reviews of England and Scot-land an acknowledg-ment of the powerand originality ofAmercan genius. Theliterature of the NewWorld was no longera scoff and a by-wordwhen Murray, thebookseller of London,was obliged to payfor the manuscript of Bracebridge Hall—which he had notyet seen—the sum ofa thousand Sir WalterScott and Lord Byronno other author ofIrvings times re-ceived such a munifi-cent reward for his labor—no other was so much praised and as humorist or writer of prose fiction, historian or biogra-pher, his name ranks among the noblest and brightest of the the petty revolutions of society and the b
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