Texans

[22WRF]

Today is Texas Independence Day

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may,”

Sam Houston.

[Pistolenschutze]

Originally Posted by 22WRF

Today is Texas Independence Day

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may,”

Sam Houston.

But there is yet another important date, one few even celebrate today: February 1, for it was on that date, in the year 1861, that Texas seceded.

[islenos]

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression…… In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness

2nd day of March 1836

[Blackhawk Dave]

That so applies to today.

[islenos]

Originally Posted by Pistolenschutze

But there is yet another important date, one few even celebrate today: February 1, for it was on that date, in the year 1861, that Texas seceded.

I fly my Bonnie Blue Flag on February 1st



Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern Rights, Hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a Single Star!