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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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the secession convention. In 1861 he received a
commission from President Davis as BrigadierGeneral
and entered the Confederate army, where
he died at Corinth at the head of his brigade in
May, 1862. Ilis father and mother lived with him
at Rusk, where they died and were buried in
1848-9.
He had a sister and two brothers (Thomas and
Stephen), all of whom raised families and died in
Mississippi, and left surviving him his wife, who
died in 1863, and two daughters (Mrs. Fannie Davis
and Mrs. Julia McDougal), and five sons -Thomas,
John, James S., Lewis and Richard. The latter
two died while boys; Thomas served through the
war, married, raised a family and died at Denton,
Texas, in 1880; John lives with his family in Wise
County, and is a worthy and prosperous farmer, of
fine education and intelligence.
Ex-Gov. James S. Hogg was born on the "Mountain
Home " near Rusk, in Cherokee County, March
24, 1851. He was left an orphan at twelve years
of age.
The property of the family was swept away by
the war, and the boy was compelled to, unaided,
take his part in that struggle for existence in which
"if the race is not always to the swift, the battle
is assuredly with the strong." He disdained no
honest employment and did any work his hands
could find to do. To secure a practical education
he entered a newspaper office as printer's devil, and
worked his way until he owned and edited a paper,
the Longview News, which was subsequently removed
to Quitman, Wood County, Texas, and the
name changed to Quitman Netws. He read law four
years while residing at the towns of Tyler, Longview
and Quitman; was admitted to the bar in 1875;
after three years successful practice was elected
County Attorney of Wood County, and after filling
that office for two years, was elected District Attorney
for the Seventh Judicial District, a position
that he held for four years. On the close of his
official term as District Attorney, he settled at Tyler,
where he secured a fine paying practice.
April 22, 1874 (before he was admitted to the
bar), he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Stinson,
daughter of Col. James A. Stinson, an intelligent
and highly respected farmer, in Wood County.
They have four children--William C., sixteen;
Ima, eight; Mike, five, and Tom, three years
old.
Governor Hogg was nominated by the State convention
of 1886, over three opponents, for AttorneyGeneral,
and was elected in November of that year,
and in 1888 he was renominated without opposition
and re-elected. In accepting his second nomination
to the office of Attorney-General he spoke as
follows:"
MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
-For this, the second expression of confidence
in me by the Democracy of Texas, I am
weighed down with renewed gratitude. To discharge
the welcome obligation by a continued faithful
adherence to duty certainly now is my highest
ambition. In the past the talisman of my life has
been that palladium of a Republic's safety, the constitution.
Its majesty has ever commanded my
most devout reverence, and within its shadow I
shall, if your action is confirmed at the polls, continue
two years longer to stand at the post of official
trust.
" The department over which your partiality has
placed and proposes to continue me for another
term is one of no mean importance. Upon it is
frequently imposed demands of the State of the
most vital concern. Without action from there the
avenues of justice would be stifled and the statutes
in many material particulars might remain untested
-their usefulness unfelt and unknown. Not obstructing,
but opening the way, now and then without
a precedent, I have attempted to serve the
constitutional purpose of the office so that the laws
should take the place of those evils which are a
menance to Republican institutions. How far this
course has been successful must be determined by
those who shall do me the honor to investigate the
records of the department and the courts. To them
I refer and by them I stand, under the pardonable
consciousness that the action which I took in their
making was never inspired nor accelerated by
motives of policy at the expense of duty or
principle. With an eye single to the law and a
heart set upon duty, I have done some work in hitherto
unexplored regions that were bewildered by
ominous and apparently insuperable obstacles.
Failure meant professional ruin; success
vouchsafed the establishment of public rights
upon well defined but latent principle. Results
so far are satisfactory, notwithstanding
that the efforts have been declared by critics to
have grown out of mistaken zeal and to have proved a
wicked boomerang. Throughout the undertaking I
have had the good-will, cordial encouragement and
hearty support of my brethren at the bar all over
the State. This alone is highly gratifying. To
them I tender my special acknowledgments in these
times of an unreasonable and relentless crusade
against their profession. At no time in the history
of this grand profession have its members failed to
respond to their country's call nor to defend the
liberties of the people. They can and will do so
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