Father Tabb’s discernment was clear and touched by the purest fragrance of the muses. To Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats he was devoted. Poe he regarded as without a peer in modern literature, and was his uncompromising, inflexible champion.
Henry E. Shepherd
John Banister Tabb born, 1845
March Twenty-Third
Come, Texas! send forth your brave Rangers,
The heroes of battles untold—
Accustomed to trials and dangers,
Come stand by your rights as of old;
The deeds of your chivalrous daring
Are writ on the Alamo’s wall,
A record which ruin is sparing—
Come forth to your country’s loud call!
V. E. W. Vernon
Texas ratifies the Confederate Constitution, 1861
March Twenty-Fourth
Adams, Giddings, and other Congressmen issued a public address, in March, 1843, declaring that the annexation of Texas would be “so injurious to the interests of the Northern States as not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it.”
Henry A. White