I Humble Myself Before God, And There

A Victim Of The Use Of Water As A Beverage.

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.

I Would Not Be Gotten Into A Schoolhouse Until I Was Eight Years Old. Nor Did I Accomplish Much After I Started. I Doubt If I Had Gone To School Six Months In All When My Father Died. I Was Fourteen At The Time.

In The Name Of The Constitution Of Texas, Which Has Been Trampled Upon, I Refuse To Take This Oath. I Love Texas Too Well To Bring Civil Strife And Bloodshed Upon Her.

All New States Are Invested, More Or Less, By A Class Of Noisy, Second-rate Men Who Are Always In Favor Of Rash And Extreme Measures, But Texas Was Absolutely Overrun By Such Men.