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The McArdle Scrapbooks Dawn at the Alamo
McArdle's Original Draft of His Manuscript on His Conception of the Painting, "Dawn at the Alamo"
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Climax of the conception:
The spectator is looking South-
East and the blaze of orange
and gold on the horizon tells of
the sun's approach — the dawn of
day, the dawn of liberty to Texas —
while higher up appears the
morning star — the "Lone star of
Texas," struggling through the
clouds of blood and darkness
which beset its advent.
The star of Independence
appears, as the flag of Mexican
liberty is about to go down for
ever on the last spot where it
ever waved.
Yoakum the historian says:
"At an hour by sun on
that sabbath morning, all was still; yet
the crimson waters of the acqueduct around
the fort resembled the red flag on the
Church of Bexar. The defenders of Texas
did not retreat, but lay there in obedience
to the command of their country; and
in the obedience the world has
witnessed among men no greater
moral sublimity.
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