The life and writings of Rufus CBurleson, DD., LLD., containing a biography of DrBurleson by HonHarry Hayens; . the public mind from religious andeducational affairs to politics, and was disquieting from everypoint of view. The sad fate of those who went on the Santa Fe Expedi-tion was still fresh in the minds of the people. The Somer-ville campaign, the battle of Mier and the Snively Expeditionwere distressing events in Texas history, of recent occurrence. The school was located in 1845, formally opened in 1846,while the heated and tumultuous campaign resulting in the Dr. Rufus C. Burleson. I
The life and writings of Rufus CBurleson, DD., LLD., containing a biography of DrBurleson by HonHarry Hayens; . the public mind from religious andeducational affairs to politics, and was disquieting from everypoint of view. The sad fate of those who went on the Santa Fe Expedi-tion was still fresh in the minds of the people. The Somer-ville campaign, the battle of Mier and the Snively Expeditionwere distressing events in Texas history, of recent occurrence. The school was located in 1845, formally opened in 1846,while the heated and tumultuous campaign resulting in the Dr. Rufus C. Burleson. Ill annexation of Texas to the United States, was distracting theattention of the people. It had scarcely emerged from thefeverish conditions engendered by this controversy, when warwas declared between the United States and Mexico, March11th, 1846. During that sanguinary conflict, not only Baylor Univer-sity, bnt every other moral and educational enterprise strug-gled for bare existence. Added to all these untoward conditions, it will be remem-bered that Texas was a new country, very sparsely settled, and. A. S. LIPSCOMB. every interest, civil, religious, financial and commercial, wasin an embryonic state. JSTothing was established as in olderstates, not even the government itself. For these reasons, and owing to these unsettled condi-tions, the institution had not grown as rapidly, met the de-mands of the people as readily, nor fulfilled its mission in theworld as quickly, as its wise and unselfish projectors had hoped. Judge Abner S. Lipscomb had just become a member ofthe Board of Trustees; he was not only one of the most emi- 112 The Life and Writings of nent lawyers in the state, but having held himself aloof fromall the acrimonious political controversies of these times, wasperhaps the most popular man in Texas. A brief notice ofhis life, is worthy of insertion in this record. Judge Lips-comb was born in South Carolina in 1789, and came to Texasin 1839, when he was 50 yea
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