ONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: TRIBUTE TO GOV. HUBBARD - Smith County, TX 

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14 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

TRIBUTE TO GOV. HUBBARD

Sterling Price Camp, Dallas, Texas, adopted the following memorial 
resolutions:  J. B. Simpson for the memorial committee, presented the 
following which was adopted:  "Richard B. Hubbard, Confederate soldier, 
statesman, distinguished orator and diplomat, has passed over to the 
great majority. It is almost a matter of supererogation for this camp 
to speak of his career as lawyer, soldier, governor of this great 
commonwealth or of his diplomatic service to the Republic, for it 
will suffice to say that in all these positions he rose to the full 
measure of public expectation and reflected lasting credit upon his 
people, his comrades and the state.  The South has been prolific of 
great men, of statesmen, of orators.  It has produced the noblest 
men that ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life; men grave 
and courteous, men of judgment and heroic endurance; men whose keen 
sense of honor and personal dignity, whose felicity of diction, superb 
eloquence and invincible logic gave them the control of the Government 
for over sixty years; gave them through their sheer mastery of 
political economy, through intense culture and stainless character 
the control of the destinies of this Republic long after they became 
a minority.  To such a race Gov. Hubbard belonged.  His comrades of 
this camp, remembering his services in the field, in the forum, to the 
state and Union, inscribe upon their records these resolutions:  That 
this camp has lost an honored comrade and the State one among its 
greatest citizens.  That we tender to his family our deepest sympathy 
in their irreparable loss.  W. L. Cabell, Anson Rainey, A. T. Watts, 
W. H. Gaston, C. L. Martin, J. B. Simpson, Committee.