The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 163
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"It is principally occupied with the military and political opera-
tions going on in that quarter.
"We observe however some advertisements which display a dis-
position to improve the condition of the country. One which re-
quests the citizens of the town and neighborhood to meet at the
house of Mr. Cargill to choose trustees of a seminary of learning;
another which shows that a Mr. Madden has engaged in building
a grist and saw mill.
"These are strange things to be seen in a Spanish town; a news-
paper called Republican; the citizens attending to the establish-
ment of a school; mills building.-We wish they may go on, that
the revolution may triumph, and all traces of an odious and con-
temptible government disappear from our continent."
The St. Louis Enquirer for September 29, 1819, quotes the fol-
lowing article from the first number of the Republican:
"NACOGDOCHEs, August 14.
"An express arrived from Colonel Robinson,' who commands the
detachment reconnoitering on the Brazos, informing that the party
were all well; that two negro men (runaways from the United
States) and one white man had gone to Labadie.2 The Indian
Falls of the Brazos October 11th, Walker 'at the La Bahia crossing on
the Brazos October 15th, and then advanced on David Long, who occupied
a station on the upper Trinity. The news of David Long's defeat caused
the abandonment of Nacogdoches. Ibid., I 98.
1Robinson is not mentioned by Yoakum, Brown, or Thrall. Perhaps it
is Capt. Andrew Robinson, member of the Magee-Guiterrez Expedition,
referred to by Daniel Shipman in his Frontier Life, 21.
'This is the interpretation the Anglo-American ear gave to the Mexican
pronunciation of La Bahia, and in this instance refers to the former name
of Goliad. Compare also Daniel Shipman's Frontier Life, 20, where,
speaking of the La Bahia road, after having passed through Nacogdoches
and arrived at Robbins's ferry on the Trinity, he says, "Here the road
forked-the right hand was known as the old 'San Antonio' road, and the
left was called the Labahia (Laberdee) road; * * *." Likewise, La
Bahia prairie and La Bahia school and postoffice near the western boun-
dary of Washington county are spoken of as "Labadie" prairie, school, etc.,
by people who have a more vivid recollection of the pronunciation than of
the spelling of the name. The latter, so far as the writer has been able
to ascertain, are the only places in Texas that perpetuate this name, which
is so intimately connected with the beginnings of the history of our State.
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