Year Book for Texas ...Cadwell Walton Raines Gammel-statesman publishing Company, 1903 |
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acres Adjutant adopted Albert Sidney Johnston appointed appropriation April army Association August 31 Austin battery Baylor University Book for Texas Brenham camp capitol Capt cent chairman citizens clerk commanding Commissioner committee Company Confederate Veterans Congress constitution convention Corsicana Dallas Daughters Democratic district drill duty elected ending August 31 farm following resolution Fort Worth Galveston Gammel-Statesman Publishing Governor held honor House of Representatives Houston Infantry institution interest irrigation January January 23 John Judge labor land Legislature of Texas Lieut Lieutenant Lubbock March ment Mexican Mexico miles Miss Neff officers organization patriotic present President prize railroad Railway received Republic of Texas S. W. T. Lanham San Antonio San Jacinto Sayers secretary Senate session Speaker superintendent Terrell Texas Volunteer Guard tion Twenty-eighth Legislature United vice-president vote Waco Worth Zavala
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Stran 194 - CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled, to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look...
Stran 422 - ... seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this, too, notwithstanding we have petitioned, in the humblest terms, for the establishment of a separate State government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the National Constitution, presented to the General Congress a Republican Constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
Stran 197 - I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
Stran 194 - I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting...
Stran 53 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Stran 194 - ... the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
Stran 419 - That they hold it to be their right, during the disorganization of the Federal System, and the reign of despotism, to withdraw from the Union, to establish an independent government, or to adopt such measures as they may deem best calculated to protect their rights and liberties; but that they will continue faithful to the Mexican Government, so long as that nation is governed by the constitution and laws that were formed for the government of the political association.
Stran 53 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...