Goody, SASS #26190 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel John Hays, SASS #29625 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. AMEN TO THAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady McLarry #62056L Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Texas, Our Texas Written by William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright Composed by William J. Marsh Texas, Our Texas! all hail the mighty State! Texas, Our Texas! so wonderful so great! Boldest and grandest, withstanding ev'ry test O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest. Texas, O Texas! your freeborn single star, Sends out its radiance to nations near and far, Emblem of Freedom! it set our hearts aglow, With thoughts of San Jacinto and glorious Alamo. Texas, dear Texas! from tyrant grip now free, Shines forth in splendor, your star of destiny! Mother of heroes, we come your children true, Proclaiming our allegiance, our faith, our love for you. God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong, That you may grow in power and worth, throughout the ages long. God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong, That you may grow in power and worth, throughout the ages long. Texas state song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Houston # 35508 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Here Here........'bout time to declare Independence again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Jim Henry, SASS #20616 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Red Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 And Then God created TEXAS... Amen Brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickahominy Charlie Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Got my "Come And Take It" flag wavin' outside the office today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJT Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I thought Texas became a state on December 29th........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas John Ringo, SASS #10138 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I thought Texas became a state on December 29th........ Today.......Independence Day.......1836 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Houston # 35508 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I thought Texas became a state on December 29th........ What State??? "The Republic of Texas" Even Texans make mistakes! Like back in 1845 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancho Peacemaker Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Yep. 175 Years ago, good folks felt like they weren't being treated right. Their government had become a tyranny without regard of the ideals of the people. Those brave men got together and put their grievances, ideas, and plans on paper. The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836. 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. 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 forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready 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. When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. 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. Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth. The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood. It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant 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. It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government. It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen. 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. It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation. 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 ports for confiscation. 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. It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments. It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination. It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers. It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government. These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government. The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation. 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 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. Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and Delegate from Red River. Charles B. Stewart Tho. Barnett John S. D. Byrom Francis Ruis J. Antonio Navarro Jesse B. Badgett Wm D. Lacy William Menifee Jn. Fisher Matthew Caldwell William Motley Lorenzo de Zavala Stephen H. Everett George W. Smyth Elijah Stapp Claiborne West Wm. B. Scates M. B. Menard A. B. Hardin J. W. Burton Thos. J. Gazley R. M. Coleman Sterling C. Robertson James Collinsworth Edwin Waller Asa Brigham Geo. C. Childress Bailey Hardeman Rob. Potter Thomas Jefferson Rusk Chas. S. Taylor John S. Roberts Robert Hamilton Collin McKinney Albert H. Latimer James Power Sam Houston David Thomas Edwd. Conrad Martin Parmer Edwin O. Legrand Stephen W. Blount Jms. Gaines Wm. Clark, Jr. Sydney O. Pennington Wm. Carrol Crawford Jno. Turner Benj. Briggs Goodrich G. W. Barnett James G. Swisher Jesse Grimes S. Rhoads Fisher John W. Moore John W. Bower Saml. A. Maverick (from Bejar) Sam P. Carson A. Briscoe J. B. Woods H. S. 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Shynee Graves, SASS #19,614 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Gentlemen charge your glasses and drink a tost--"To the Yellow Rose and the Alamo. To Fannin's boys, the Twin Sisters and General Sam. God bless Texas! Happy birthday old Girl". "The bugels are silent and there is rust on each sword, and that small band of soldiers lie asleep in the arms of the Lord!" S.G. (Native Texan by gobs!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Complicated Lady Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. We say that pledge every morning right after the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. and right before the "moment of silence"...Prayer but we can't call it prayer I grew up in California. Don't remember California even having a pledge. I am guessing they do but we definitely didn't say it in school. Texas is a proud state. Texans are proud to be Texans. I know my Daddy was proud to be a Texan. I wasn't born here but I got here as quick as I could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Gun Johnnie Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!!!!!! Two Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichols Creek, SASS #77627 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Happy Birthday Texas! Proud to be here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyandot Jim Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Well I sure am glad the State Of Texas has their birthday the same day as mine. That way I can remember when mine is. WJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Cannuck Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 From a would be Texan, Saaalut! I was lucky enough to visit the Alamo on the anniversary of her fall, it was an amazing feeling to be there on that oh so special day! You can certainly be proud to call her your own! Some day I hope to make her my home away from home for those cold winter months up here in the great white north. Happy Birthday Texas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest talon macleod 29883 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 On Feb. 23 for the last 25 years I raise the 1824 flag and fly it thru march 6th. I am not from Texas but My Wife is . She is a direct descendant of an Alamo defender (Dolphin Ward Floyd). My Daughter Molly was born on the 150 year anniversary at pretty close to the time the heroes fell. In honor of the fallen "GOD Bless Texas". Talon Macleod (Descendant of the Ga. Holliday Family) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatneck Clem Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 God Bless TEXAS and all its Daughters and Sons and the rest of you that do not live here. Goatneck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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