Texas: the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas ...R. Hastings, 1841 - Texas |
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... favour of the Vera Cruz Plan , the Nacogdoches settlers attacked the garrison in their " quartel , " and after protracted skirmishing , in which three Texans were killed and seven wounded , and eighteen Mexicans killed and twenty - two ...
... favour of the Vera Cruz Plan , the Nacogdoches settlers attacked the garrison in their " quartel , " and after protracted skirmishing , in which three Texans were killed and seven wounded , and eighteen Mexicans killed and twenty - two ...
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... favour of the church and the army , and calling the illustrious Santa Anna to the Supreme Dicta- torship of the Mexican nation . Although there were the strongest grounds for believing that the versatile and ambitious President had ...
... favour of the church and the army , and calling the illustrious Santa Anna to the Supreme Dicta- torship of the Mexican nation . Although there were the strongest grounds for believing that the versatile and ambitious President had ...
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... favoured by the Company's secretary and legal adviser , Mr. Charles Edwards of New York , the first body of colonists - fifty - nine in num- ber - embarked at New York for Aransas Bay , in Texas , in the schooner Amos Wright , on the ...
... favoured by the Company's secretary and legal adviser , Mr. Charles Edwards of New York , the first body of colonists - fifty - nine in num- ber - embarked at New York for Aransas Bay , in Texas , in the schooner Amos Wright , on the ...
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... favour- able at noon , they proceeded as far as Live Oak Point , where they anchored . At 8 o'clock , a.m. , on the 11th , they weighed anchor and steered for Copano , distant about six miles to the westward , when the vessel ran ...
... favour- able at noon , they proceeded as far as Live Oak Point , where they anchored . At 8 o'clock , a.m. , on the 11th , they weighed anchor and steered for Copano , distant about six miles to the westward , when the vessel ran ...
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... favour , as , although we had nothing that was subject to duty or seizure , still an active examination would have caused us several days ' hard work , in opening and closing our trunks , chests , & c . & c . Our little attentions were ...
... favour , as , although we had nothing that was subject to duty or seizure , still an active examination would have caused us several days ' hard work , in opening and closing our trunks , chests , & c . & c . Our little attentions were ...
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Page 519 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature...
Page 520 - ... peace or safety of the State. No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship against his consent, nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
Page 195 - ... connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.
Page 501 - It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
Page 492 - Commonwealth, for the time being, shall be the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and of all the military forces of the State, by sea and land ; and shall have full power, by himself, or by any commander, or other officer or officers, from time to time, to train, instruct, exercise and govern the militia...
Page 501 - It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public domain), and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.
Page 131 - That they have taken up arms in defence of their rights and liberties, which were threatened by the encroachments of military despots, and in defence of the republican principles of the federal constitution of Mexico, of eighteen and twenty-four.
Page 328 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of Democracy, and while guided and controlled by virtue, the noblest attribute of man. It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge, and the only security which freemen desire.
Page 508 - Neither House, without the consent of the other, shall adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that at which the two Houses are sitting. But this regulation shall not extend to the Senate when it shall exercise the powers mentioned in the Article.
Page 226 - ... of colors, all their camp equipage, stores, and baggage. Our cavalry had charged and routed that of the enemy upon the right, and given pursuit to the fugitives, which...