The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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.
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
