A School History of TexasRow, Peterson, 1912 - 384 pages Front inside cover of book states; This is the property of the State of Texas Cotulla High School, LaSalle Co. Issued to Helen J. Allen 1926-27. |
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A School History of Texas Eugene Campbell Barker,Charles Shirley Potts,Charles William Ramsdell Affichage du livre entier - 1921 |
A School History of Texas Eugene Campbell Barker,Charles Shirley Potts,Charles William Ramsdell Affichage du livre entier - 1912 |
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ADDITIONAL READING Agricultural Alamo Americans army Austin Bancroft battle of Gonzales battle of San became began Bolton and Barker Brazos building capitol cattle cause CHAPTER Civil Coahuila College colonists colony Confederate Congress constitution convention cotton crops Davis declared early East Texas established expedition Fannin fighting Fredonian rebellion French Galveston Garrison Goliad Goliad massacre Gonzales Greer county History of Texas Houston hundred important independence Indians industry legislature Louisiana March ment Mexican Mexico miles million dollars mission Mississippi Nacogdoches negroes North party political population President Houston's President Lamar prisoners public lands public schools Quarterly railway reconstruction republic revolution Richard Coke River runaway scrape Sabine Sabine Pass Saint-Denis San Antonio San Jacinto Santa Anna Santa Fé school system secession settled settlement settlers slaves soldiers South Southern Spain Spaniards Spanish surrender Tejas Texans Texas revolution thousand tion town Travis Union United viceroy vote Yoakum
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Page 223 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 332 - It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution. " It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels and convey the property of our citizens to far distant parts for confiscation.
Page 330 - ... minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants: when, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet...
Page 333 - ... 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 329 - ... inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression: When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been...
Page 333 - We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and DECLARE, that our political...
Page 118 - The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH. "WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS, "Lt.
Page 309 - 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. ... It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Page 117 - I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. / shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch.
Page 309 - 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.