The soul of Brutus was born in Lamar.  All the truth and chivalry illustrative of the conduct of the one, was palpable in the other.  Let those who saw him, at San Jacinto, at the head of his sixty horsemen, ride upon the ranks of Santa Anna’s hosts, tell of his bearing in that memorable charge, when he rose in his stirrups, and, waving his sword over his head, exclaimed:  “Remember, men, the Alamo!  Remember Goliad, Fannin, Bowie, and Travis!  Charge! and strike in vengeance for the murdered of our companions.”  Resistless as the tempest, they followed his lead, and swept down upon the foe, charging through, and disordering their ranks, and, following in their flight for miles, made many a Mexican bite the dust, or yield himself a prisoner to their intrepidity.  To this charge was solely attributable the capture of Santa Anna, Almonte, and the principal portion of the Mexican army, and the establishment of Texan independence.

As a poet, he was above mediocrity, and his “Sully Riley,” and many of his fugitive pieces, will long survive, to perpetuate the refined delicacy of his nature, when, perhaps, his deeds as a soldier and as President of Texas shall have passed away.  In stature he was below the medium height, but was stout and muscular.  His face was oval, and his eyes blue, and exceedingly soft and tender in their expression, save when aroused by excitement, when they were blazing and luminous with the fire of his soul, which enkindled them.  He was free from every vice, temperate in living, and remarkable for his indifference to money—­with a lofty contempt for the friends and respectability which it alone conferred.  If there ever lived four men insensible to fear, or superior to corruption, they were the four brothers Lamar.  They are all in eternity, and their descendants are few, but they wear unstained the mantle of their ancestry.

L.Q.C.  Lamar, the elder brother of the four, was educated at Franklin College, and studied law in Milledgeville.  Very soon after, he was admitted to the Bar.  He became distinguished for attention to business, and for talent, as well as legal attainments.  Like his brother, M.B.  Lamar, he was remarkable for his acute sense of honor and open frankness, a peerless independence, and warm and noble sympathies.  He married, while young, the daughter of D. Bird.  The mother of his lady was one of the Williamson sisters, so remarkable for their superiority, intellectually, and whose descendants have been, and are, so distinguished for talent.

The character of L.Q.C.  Lamar as a man, and as a lawyer, prompted the Legislature of the State to elevate him to the Bench of the Superior Court when very young; and at thirty-two years of age, he was known throughout the State as the great Judge Lamar.  This family had contributed perhaps a greater number of men of distinguished character than any other family of the State.  Zachariah Lamar, the uncle of Judge Lamar, was a man of high order of mind, distinguished