"Remember thee?
Yes, lovely girl;
While faithful memory holds its seat,
Till this warm heart in dust is laid,
And this wild pulse shall cease to beat,
No matter where my bark be tost.
On life's tumultuous, stormy sea;
My anchor gone, my rudder lost.
Still, cousin, I will think of thee."
I send the above lines, not so much for their poetic merit, but merely to illustrate the character of the man whose mind was burdened with the uncertainty of great events, that were to startle the world by their magnitude, yet could turn aside to the call of love or friendship with the graceful ease of a courtier.
Very respectfully,N, B. Hamilton.
The Houston family tree, as intimated by Miss Hamilton's letter, embraces the names of Paxton, McCIung, Cassidy, Hopkins, McKee, Letcher, Moore, Wallace, Bradstator, Pugh, Guy, Ross, and Hamilton, names connected with the best blood and characteristics of Virginia and the American Union.
