The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 174
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174 Iexas historical Association Quarterly.
by Volunteer companies on their banners have rendered it stale &
fulsome. Virgil from whom it is taken expresses the sentiment
antithetically. In the latin language it has much point and beauty.
Ubi Libertas-Ibi Patria. If we are to have it [at probably omit-
ted] all let us have it expressed in this way. But I should much
prefer that the [expression marked out] motto be discarded & that
the words 'The light of liberty' or the words Lux Libertatis if they
are preferred be substituted. The [words probably omitted] light
of Liberty apply to the sun. Underneath Washington I would have
the words, 'In his example-there is safety.' With this alteration
I am much pleased with the banner.
WM. H. WHAR.TON.
I have no objection to the motto Lux Libertatis, or Light of Lib-
erty.
S. F. AUSTIN."
This is written partly on the face and partly on the back of a
sheet containing a copy of Austin's design apparently exact, except
as to the color of the stripes. In the example from which No. 1 is
engraved they appear blue, but in the one on which the above is
written they are green. The sun and its rays and the head of Wash-
ington, making up the complicated device that was to replace the
star, are scrawled in free hand on the face of the drawing, and the
mottoes are added. 'The result appears in flag No. 2 of the engrav-
ing. The document is without an address or a date, and the precise
nature the commissioners meant to give it does not appear. It is
now among the records in the Department of State and is in one of
the boxes containing the diplomatic correspondence of the Republic."
This would indicate that it came as an official communication to the
government, but there is nothing to show whether its classification
was based on any other grounds than the simple faot that it bears
the signatures of the three commissioners. The cover in which it
is enclosed has written upon it 1835; but the writing is evidently
much more recent than the document itself, and is clearly wrong.
There is one interesting point of seeming connection between this
flag and that brought by Ward's battalion from Georgia in the motto
so criticized by Wharton. It appears on the design as approved by
Austin and Archer in the English form, "Where Liberty dwells there
is my country;" while on the Ward flag it is given in the Latin,
"Ubi Libertas habitat, ibi nostra patria est." If our be used in5File box 24, No. 2338.
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