The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 175
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Another Texas Flag.
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place of "my," the translation becomes exact. 'Could there have
been any connection? The Georgia battalion was encamped at
Velasco for some days previous to the departure of the commission-
ers from that vicinity, and Austin or Archer may have seen and
been attracted by the motto on its flag. The fact that it was not
on Austin's original design would lead to the supposition that it was
proposed by Archer. Wharton characterized it as a "hackneyed
quotation;" and if this was true no one necessarily owed it to any-
body in particular. On the other hand, his reference to the fre-
quent use of it "by Volunteer companies on their banners" might
seem to contain a sly suggestion that it was taken from the Ward
flag.a
It is interesting further to note that this elaborate design was
actually realized in silk. There is in the collection of Colonel Bryan
a letter from Mrs. Holley, dated Lexington, Kentucky, June 1,
1836, and addressed to Austin at Louisville,7 in which she writes,
among other things, as follows: "* * * Miss James has painted
your flag on silk-sun Washington & all-it is beautiful-it is to
be presented by Henrietta"-with an appropriate speech written for
'He said it came from Virgil, meaning, of course, originally; but I have
not been able to find it in the writings of that author. The nearest ex-
pression to it that I know of in Latin literature is a quotation given by
Cicero in the Tusculan Disputations, V. 37, 108, which reads: "Patria est
ubicumque est bene." This was located for me by Professor W. J. Battle
of the University of Texas. An article in the Texas Almanac for 1861,
gives a statement from General McLeod to the effect that the Latin motto
placed by Miss Troutman upon the Ward flag "was her own."
General McLeod says also, by the way, that the English inscription on
the flag was Texas and Liberty. Mrs. Looscan, following the description
of Mr. Lewis Washington, quoted in the same article, makes it Liberty or
Death. I am inclined to believe that General MoLeod's version is correct.
The rather convincing evidence he offers that he remembers the expressions
aright, is supported by the fact that the account of the meeting at which
the raising of Ward's company was begun published in an extra of the
Georgia Messenger, is headed by the very words, printed in large letters,
which General McLeod says were used on the flag. The letter of intro-
duction which Ward brought from Robert C.ollins to Austin, and which
is now among the Austin papers, is written on the fly-leaf of one of these
circulars.
'The directions show that it followed him to New Orleans.
"Daughter of Henry Austin, and niece of Mrs. Holley.
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