WILLIAM HERNDON TYLER TEXAS SIGNED AUTO BOOK CSA CIVIL WAR CAPTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS

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The book is a Hand-Book of Politics for 1872 being a record of important political action, national and state, from July 15, 1872 July 15, 1872 by the Honorable Edward McPherson clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States published in Washington city by Philp and Solomons 1872.
The book is in very good condition, there is somewhere to the tremendous green hardback cover, the original signature does bleed into the following blank page, in the subject matter is tremendous. The purpose of this poem is to present and distinct and classified form the Chi political facts of these two years and thereby Tracy direction and political progress and thoughts throughout the country during this time. Important subjects include a listing of all Congress and the house of representatives political issues such as amnesty the complex act of 1871 in many phases of early civil rights agitation and action after the Civil War. 225 pages. There are sections on amendments to the United States Constitution as well as amendments to the constitution of each individual states inside, a fantastic resource for your personal collection.
FROM WIKIPEDIA…
William Smith Herndon
(November 27, 1835 – October 11, 1903) was a
U.S. Representative
from
Texas
.
Biography
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Herndon was born in
Rome, Georgia
, and moved to
Wood County, Texas
, in May 1852. He attended the common schools and graduated from
McKenzie College
in 1859. He then studied law, attained
admission to the bar
in 1860 and commenced practice in
Tyler, Texas
.
He served as a member of the
Confederate States Army
during the
American Civil War
; he enlisted in 1861, and attained the rank of captain before being discharged in 1865.
After the war, Herndon resumed the practice of law in Tyler, and became counsel, executive advisor, and general solicitor for several railroads.
Herndon was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Forty-second
and
Forty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the
Forty-fourth
Congress.
Following his service in Congress, Herndon resumed practicing law in Tyler. He died in
Albuquerque, New Mexico
, October 11, 1903, and was interred at Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler
FROM THE USGW ARCHIVES…
HON. W. S. HERNDON AND FAMILY
"Some Biographies of Old Settlers."
Historical, Personal and Reminiscent. Volume I
By Sid S. Johnson, 1900: Sid S. Johnson, Publisher, Tyler, Texas
Chapter XV - Pages 79-93 - Picture on Page 80
The subject of this sketch, Hon. W. S. Herndon, has been a citizen of
Texas forty-nine years and a resident of Tyler forty years.  A native
of the State of Georgia, he came with his parents to Texas before the
days of railroads and when the savage and the buffalo held sway over
the larger part of this state.  His father, Reuben Herndon, was born in
Virginia in 1806 and was the son of John Herndon who emigrated from
England 1754, to the Colony of Virginia; served seven years in the
Revolution; married Miss Canady and had seven sons and one daughter
and died in 1813.  In 1815 the widow and eight children moved to
South Carolina.  And from there in 1828 Reuben settled in Georgia and
in 1830 married Miss Anna Hobbs.  To them three children were born --
James, W. S. and Mary.  James married in 1858 and three children were
born to them -- the oldest, W. R. Herndon, who is now city treasurer of
the City of Tyler.  James enlisted in the Confederate army under Col.
J. W. Throckmorton in 1861 and died 23rd of December, 1863.  Mary
married W. S. Parker in this city in 1873 and died in San Antonio, June
1st, 1893, leaving two children.  Reuben Herndon died December 25th,
1867, and his widow, Mrs. Anna Herndon, resided in Tyler seven years,
then resided with Mrs. Parker in Dallas and finally died in Denton,
Texas, in 1891.
W. S. Herndon worked on a farm in Wood county several years with his
father and his slaves, and as an evidence of his industry, the post oak
rails which he cut and slit then are still pointed out by his old
friends of that vicinity.  In 1854 young Herndon entered college and
continued until he graduated at McKenzie College in 1859, with very
high honors.  From college he went to the frontier of Texas and
remained with the Texas Rangers recuperating his phsical health,
exploring the Great West and fighting savages until 1860.  In that
year he settled in Tyler and began the study of law, under himself
as his tutor, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of
the State, and in the Federal Courts the same year.  After his
admission to the bar, Mr. Herndon married Miss Mary Louise McKellar
and brought his bride to Tyler, Their future home.
We have heard him often refer to his poverty at that period of his life,
when he and his bride arrived in Tyler, and the bills incident to the
wedding were settled, he had exactly .50 left, and no more, one little
gold coin, yet he was not discouraged, but with that pluck and industry
that have characterized his long business life, he seemed supremely
happy.  Herndon was a hard student and often said business would ere
long come his way and leave no time for study, hence he was getting
ready.  And this was more than true; such a busy life he has led!  He
had hardly opened his law office for practice, until the tocsin of
war was sounded and the drums beat for volunteers.  Young Herndon
enlisted for the war in 1861.
Captain W. F. Hamilton and Herndon raised a company; Hamilton was
elected Captain and Herndon elected First Lieutenant, and the company
was mustered into the 13th Infantry.  In 1862, Captain Hamilton was
transferred to another arm of the service and Lieutenant Herndon
promoted to Captain.  His company was assigned to artillery service
about two years.  General J. Bankhead Magruder, in command of the
Trans-Mississippi Department, after inspection, said that Capt.
Herndon's command was the best drilled company in the service.  Captain
Herndon become master of the drill service and trained the 13th
Infantry in military tactics for infantry and artillery service.
In June, 1865, Captain Herndon's command was mustered out of service,
and walked back to Tyler, barefooted, poorly clad and hungry. Capt.
Herndon lost no time, and used to hardshhips, he began to prepare for
lliving, by doing any work by which he could earn a dollar.  In
November, 1865, he formed a co-partnership with Judge John C.
Robertson who was an able young lawyer, and the partnership continued
twelve years.  It was a union of strong forces; no law firm in Texas,
perhaps, ever had such success and made as much money, in the same
period of time.  Pending the partnership in 1871, the democratic party
was in serious trouble; defeated, and thousands of its number
disfranchised, with no leader of note, and the followers nearly all
poor Confederate soldiers, a strong military government in control, and
the Freedman's Bureau - general manager of the negro vote.  In this
forlorn condition, Capt. Herndon, without effort or aspiration for
office, was unanimously nominated as candidate for congress at Rusk,
Texas.  When informed of his nomination, Capt. Herndon declined to
accept, but the committee and friends secured his acceptance.  Capt.
Herndon entered the race to win.  He challenged the then sitting member
of congress lately renominated, Hon. George W. Whitmore, to meet him in
joint debate, and discuss the issues involved, at all important points
in the First district of Texas, which was 300 miles long, and in width
extended from the Trinity to Sabine and Red rivers.
The race was the most remarkable ever witnessed in Texas.  The
enthusiasm of the people was unbounded.  Barbecues nearly everywhere;
immense cavalry and infantry processions; people rode for one hundred
miles to witness these debates.  The military followed the speakers in
force to quell riots and mobs; parties were at a white heat because
great issues where at stake.  Some of the ablest speeches ever made in
Texas were heard in that campaign.  Old timers still refer with
enthusiasm to these monster meetings.  The result was, Herndon turned
down the majority of his opponent over two thousand in the previous
election, and won by 4212 votes majority.  In the second race against
the same opponent, nominated by the republican party, Herndon carried
the district and was elected by more than 5,000 majority.  Hon. W. S.
Herndon was a working member of congress.  He offered many wise
measures and succeeded in doing much good.  He was popular with the
leading republican members of the House of Representatives and rarely
failed to enlist them in favor of his measures.  He was a sound money
and protective tariff democrat.  He believed then and now that these
were the most essential factors in the successful maintenance and
operation of this government.
In 1875, Col. Herndon retired from congress and has studiously declined
all office since.  He preferred independence of thought and action, and
to make money and be master of his own time.  But he always takes a deep
interest in the policies and operation of our federal and state
governments.  For many years he was elected as a delegate to the State
and National conventions of the democratic party, and was always a power
in these meetings.  Some of his ablest speeches were delivered in
shaping the platforms on this occasion.  In the memorable State
convention held at Austin, in 1898, in which Gov. R. B. Hubbard and Hon.
James W. Throckmorton contended for the nomination for governor, Col.
Herndon lead the forces of Hubbard, and Buck Walton those of
Throckmorton.  This convention had over 1,200 delegates.
Political ambitions, feeling and bitterness were intense, but it was
admitted on all sides that Col. Herndon was master of the situation and
handled his forces as a veteran general on the field of battle.  It has
been conceded by the political managers of Texas that no man has ever
handled great bodies of men with greater skill and grander success than
Col. Herndon.
As a lawyer, in the State and Federal Courts, measured by results, Col.
Herndon has been a great success.  It is doubtful if any lawyer ever
worked as many hours in the day, or argued as many litigated causes in
the period from 1869 to 1887.  It seemed that Herndon during that
period had the affirmative of every great cause in the state.
Col. Herndon's service for railroads began as an attorney in 1868 for
the Southern Pacific Railway company; afterwards for the Texas &
Pacific; later in 1878 to 1883 as attorney and executive adviser for
Hays and Hoxie of the I. & G. N. railway; attorney for the Cotton Belt,
foreclosing mortgages for the creditors, aiding in the re-organization
of that line and serving many years as attorney; and serving as general
solicitor of the I. & G. N. railway for three years.  In 1881 he turned
his attention to railroad construction, completing the K. & G. S. L.
railway, being its president three years, then sold the road for cash
and settled with all the part owners.
In 1885, during the intense hostility against railroads in Texas and
the organization of the Knights of Labor and the many strikes and
destruction of property, Col. Herndon, in defiance of what seemed the
popular will, wrote a series of articles and made many addresses in
which he exposed the fallacies of the Knights and denounced in severe
philippics the injustice of the people to corporations and railroad
progress.
In finance and business Col. Herndon has excelled perhaps all of his
associates in Texas.  It may be said truthfully that in every line of
business to which he has lent his personal attention it has succeeded.
He has made and saved a fortune, and raised and educated a family of
Eight sons and daughters, offering them every advantage that the
United States could afford.  He and his admirable wife have been
blessed with the following children:  William Sidney, Mary H., John
Henry, James M., Bessie H., Grace, Charles and Hugh Herndon.  William
Sidney is still single and in business in Kansas City, Mo.  Mrs. Mary
H. Gray, a widow, is now on a tour in Europe.  J. H. Herndon married
Miss Sallie Starley of this city and has one daughter, Grace.  He is
doing a prosperoous business and is a rising and successful young man.
J. M. Herndon married Miss Lois E. Veasey, of San Francisco,
California, and has two children, and is in business in Los Angeles,
California.  Mrs. Bessie H. Potter is a widow with one child, Dorothy
Louise, and resides with her father.  Charles Herndon has graduated at
the University of Princeton and has just finished his commercial course
and banking at Eastman's College.  Hugh Herndon is a junior at the
University of Princeton, and now on a tour of the Paris exposition.
All of these eight young people, as they arrive at proper age, enter
business life well equipped, to make useful citizens and a successful
voyage of life.
Mrs. Herndon is a very religious woman, a devoted member of the Baptist
church, a strict temperance worker, and engaged in all kinds of
religious and charitable work.  During the great temperance campaign
of 1887, when all Texans were divided, and arrayed for and against
liquor traffic, Col. Herndon espoused the side of temperance.  There is
hardly a doubt that he did more to give shape, dignity and enthusiasm
to the temperance cause than any other person in the state.  The demand
for him to address vast assemblages of people was so great that he had
little time for sleep.  His efforts drew thousands to the cause to hear
him and only one orator on the liquor side met him in joint debate, Col.
R. Q. Mills.  The writer was present on that memorable occasion.  The
vast crowd greeted their champions from start to finish; both speakers
were famous as orators; each believed in his cause, and the supporters
of each were wild with enthusiasm.  The occassion was grand, and it was
a battle of giants.  The mighty audience was moved and swayed as the
speakers willed.  The writer never witnessed a finer display of
eloquence and a more impassioned oratory.  But it was admitted by both
sides, that Col. Herndon far surpassed Col. Mills in logic, magnetism
and depth of pathos.  Col. Mills nor any other orator on that side
accepted a joint debate with him again in that campaign.  It was during
that campaign that the temperance forces met on the 30th of June, 1887,
at Fort Worth for general consultation and organization.  More than
thirty thousand people were present, in a grand open air meeting.  The
program was elaborate and many distinguished orators were billed to
speak, General Jno. H. Reagan, Senator S. B. Maxey, Dr. B. H. Carroll,
Col. Herndon and many other being present.  A grand barbecue was being
made ready and the speaking began at 10 o'clock a. m.  Col. Herndon was
called at 12:;30 o'clock and began his address.  It was the signal for
the seated thousands present to come close to the speaker.  Every word
and sentence touched some tender chord and the vast audience was soon
awed and hushed to silence.  Old men wept and embraced, the women shed
tears, the boys were quiet as death -- not a cheer went up -- all the
people rose from their seats and pressed close to the speaker, until
not six feet of space was left for the orator on the stage.  The
barbecue was forgotten -- the small venders of peanuts and ice cream
ceased to cry their goods -- the orator lost sight of all but the
immensity of his grand subject.  Two hours swept by with lightning
speed, when he closed with an impassioned peroration.  The vast
audience seemed suddenly awakened from a sensational dream to a
delerium of joy.  The speaker was embraced and bodily carried from the
stage amidst the shouts and admiration of the thousands who had hung
upon his wonderful thoughts.
The press of the day tried to report that speech, but all admitted that
they were so electrified and dazed that they only remembered it as the
greatest master-piece of logic, passion and eloquence ever heard.  This
campaign settled the question that Col. Herndon had no equal on the
hustings as a magnetic speaker.
In the political campaign of 1888, when Grover Cleveland was nominated
for the presidency against Mr. Harrison, Col. Herndon was urged and
accepted the invittion of the National committee to deliver twenty set
speeches for the democratic party in the State of California.  He
opened the campaign at Fresno, 25th of August, 1888, to over ten
thousand people.  At San Francisco he addressed about fifty thousand
people, and at Los Angeles over 2,500, and never less than 5,000
present at twenty different cities.  The press of that state regarded
his speeches as master-pieces of statesmanship, logic and eloquence.
As an orator Co. Herndon has had many opportunities to demonstrate his
rich gifts.  The last campaign in Texas made by him was in 1892 in the
interest of George Clark for Governor against Gov. James S. Hogg.
Thousands of people in Texas will remember his philippics against the
policies of Gov. Hogg.  Hogg delivered his opening campaign speech and
declared "that if elected he would knock the wind out of the stock and
squeeze the water out of the bonds of corporation."  He claimed that
the excessive issue of stock and bonds by railroads constituted a
mortgage on all the real and personal property of the people to secure
the payment of interest and dividends.  This speech had a marked effect
on Texas.  It appeared to be sound and unanswerable, and the Governor
gained immense popularity by this novel platform.  It seemed that the
Clark cause was suddenly overshadowered and likely to go down without
a struggle.  But Col. Herndon came to the rescue and opened the
campaign for Clark at Greenville, Texas, to an immense gathering.  A
club of five hundred supporters of Hogg attempted to prevent Herndon
from attacking the propositions of Governor Hogg.  He defied them, and
made a masterful speech, in which his keen logic overthrew and utterly
destroyed, apparently, every proposition assumed by Governor Hogg.
This speech was printed in full, and more than 300,000 copies were
distributed in Texas.  The effect of the speech was to drive Governor
Hogg and his supporters from repeating his doctrines in the towns and
cities, but they boldly announced them at the "forks of the creek,"
where the answer to them had not been heard.  Col. Herndon predicted
that if Gov. Hogg was elected, capital and capitalists would leave
the State; that a Rail Commission (a close corporation) would be
created; that it would cost Texas at least one hundred millions of
dollars.  In the light of subsequent events, who will say these
predictions were not fully verified?  Col. Herndon seeing the probable
effect of the want of capital and enterprise and the incident hardships
of this State, took all the available means he could raise and invested
0,000.00 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the year 1893.  He says he owes
Gov. Hogg a debt of gratitude for forcing him to put into practice what
he preached, as his investments paid Seven per cent during the seven
years of hard times that followed Gov. Hogg's policies in Texas.
In politics Col. Herndon has always stood for good, honest government --
for the enforcement of the laws -- utterly against mobs and mobocracy --
for sound doctrines and policies, rather than for parties and partisans.
He has ever held in contempt shams and makeshifts, contending for truth
and progress, in business and government.  No man has been more loyal
to his government.  In public spirit and liberality he has always headed
the lists, and stood in the front rank.  It is doubtful if there exists
any church or public school in Tyler that he has not contributed means
to build and support.  It does not matter what the sect or kind of
worshippers or teachers, he helps all.  He does largely his own alms
and many young people, and old ones, can attest to his charities.
In religion he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in Tyler,
in the year 1960, and is still a member of that association.  For
twenty-one years he, almost alone, managed the finances of that church
and during  that period, no deficits occurred, and few general
collections.
For forty years Col. Herndon has resided in the same house in this
city, and has born every burden cheerfully of a good citizen.  He had
conducted any lines of business during that period, and never failed
to meet punctually every financial obligation.  He has made money and
used it wisely, to build up and equip his own family, the city of
Tyler, Smith county and his State.  He has proven a safe man and
adviser in peace and war, in church and state -- always conservative,
yet withal progressive.  Faithful to every trust, intelligent,
charitable, conservative and progressive, society, the church, this
city, county and state have been bettered by his influence and gained
immensely by his presence and loyalty to every proper demand.
Hon. W. S. Herndon is still possessor of "brain and brawn." full of
business activity, with broad views of life.  May he live long to
enjoy the fruition of his varied labors in this city and state of his
adoption.
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