To this we reply, that our object is freedom-civil and religious freedom-emancipation
from that government, and that people, who, after fifteen years experiment, since they have
been separated from Spain, have shown that they are incapable of self-government, and
that all hopes of any thing like stability or rational liberty in their political institutions, at
least for many years, are vain and fallacious - Stephen F. Austin
from that government, and that people, who, after fifteen years experiment, since they have
been separated from Spain, have shown that they are incapable of self-government, and
that all hopes of any thing like stability or rational liberty in their political institutions, at
least for many years, are vain and fallacious - Stephen F. Austin
Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. -Sam Houston