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The Texas Declaration of Independence
(March 2, 1836)
http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/tdoi.htm
The Texas Declaration of Independence was produced, literally, overnight. Its urgency was paramount, because while it was being prepared, the Alamo in San Antonio was under seige by Santa Anna’s army of Mexico.
Immediately upon the assemblage of the Convention of 1836 on March 1, a committee of five of its delegates were appointed to draft the document. The committee, consisting of George C. Childress, Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney, prepared the declaration in record time. It was briefly reviewed, then adopted by the delegates of the convention the following day.
As seen from the transcription below, the document parallels somewhat that of the United States, signed almost sixty years earlier. It contains statements on the function and responsibility of government, followed by a list of grievances. Finally, it concludes by declaring Texas a free and independent republic.
The full text of the document is as follows:
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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.
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Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and Delegate from Red River. |
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| Charles B. Stewart Tho. Barnett John S. D. Byrom |
James Collinsworth Edwin Waller Asa Brigham Geo. C. Childress |
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Benj. Briggs Goodrich |
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Feds Raid Texas Political Meeting; Fingerprint And Photograph All Attendees, Seize Phones
“We had no idea what was going on. We knew of nothing that would warrant such an action.”
NOW, WHO WANTS TO QUIT?
GRAPHIC VIDEO OF THE EVIL THAT IS THE ISLAMIC STATE
These folks are already here! WAKE UP AMERICA!
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“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do – his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about ‘how hard it is;’ he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn’t go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?”
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JE SUIS CHARLIE!
Charlie Uno http://charlieuno.com and http.//charlieuno.wordpress.com stands in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
The attacks in paris today are a preview of what we have in store on our shores if we don’t WAKE UP AMERICA!
I challenge Sony or anyone in Hollywood to make a movie like “The Interview” that takes aim at these cowardly medieval Islamist terrorists. Now that’s a movie I’ll go see. Make it long enough to have an intermission then I can run down to the lobby hollering, ” WAHOO! SNACK BAR!” (Thanks Beast)
Now if you will excuse me I’m going to go eat a late breakfast including lots of bacon and then clean my gun. Of course I will be using Silver Bullet Gun Oil which consists of 13% USDA Liquified Pig Fat
One Shot
One Soul
Semper Vigilans,
C1
http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/recent/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo
http://www.silverbulletgunoil.net/Religion_of_Peace.html
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/310757/je-suis-charlie-more-on-the-shooting-at-charlie-hebdo/
http://www.inquisitr.com/336236/mohammed-cartoons-charlie-hebdo-muhammed-cartoons-2012/
Wish I knew who said it!
Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do – his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about ‘how hard it is;’ he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn’t go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
NO INTERVIEW
I will not be going to see “The Interview”
I have no doubt that Sony would either invent the hacking, or use a genuine hacking to increase the box office of this movie. Will you be manipulated in to seeing it?
Nor do I have any doubt that this administration could take advantage of it’s controversial showing to create a “false flag” incident. This administration has proved it will stop at nothing to further erode our rights.
Spend your movie money on some binoculars and join me on the border.
I’ll wait till the DVD hits the bargain bucket at Walmart. Or maybe buy it on the street for $2.00.
Have a Merry Christmas!
SBI AAR
We checked cameras once again around Arivaca, AZ. Traffic appears to have slowed in Tucson and parts of south Texas but may be on the rise in other areas like San Diego and south of Phoenix. Last week notable events include a two vehicle drug load drive through in Jacumba, CA as well as a load vehicle chase ending in a shooting in El Cajon, CA. A USBP Agent was hit in the head with a rock in Ajo, AZ south of Phoenix while trying to apprehend a smuggler. Meanwhile in Arivaca, traffic captured by our cameras has decreased over the last few months. The link below shows one of the few groups of illegal aliens who walked within a few feet of one of our hidden cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnCiqlLV68&list=UUNtn6C3JWf8XeZgYbAq4Gng
The team found recently dumped common black water jugs and some unusual pack material likely used for narcotics (two wheeled duffel bags more suitable being dragged through an airport than open desert). These were discarded mere feet from mile marker 136 on I-8, a well known pick up point for narcotics south of Phoenix. Water drops in Arivaca (more than 40 known locations) had little recent activity. A backpack filled with medicine and personal items was discarded by the same group who triggered our camera. Discarded trash such as this and plastic bags have caused the death of several cows annually, confirmed during necropsy of the dead animals.
These ranch lands have been under assault by drug and alien smugglers, environmental groups closing off grazing land along the smuggling corridors under the guise of protecting non-native wildlife species such as the Mexican Jaguar and redefining “navigable waters” as waters of the United States” expanding the EPA’s already far reaching controls blocking development of border security infrastructure. See article below:
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/10/far-reaching_waters_of_the_uni.html
There is a 25 mile long continuous lack of fence south of Arivaca, AZ being exploited by criminal organizations who know that the area is no where near secure. A security fence, patrol roads, cameras, and sensors are needed in this area now. Components such as wildlife connectivity and water flow mitigation can be included in this security plan. National security must come first.
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy…….
December 7, 1941
Click the date for the history, since it seems so many have forgotten. In addition to the famous quote in the title above, there is another quote from that infamous day.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”-It is attributed to the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto but there is no actual documentation that he really said it.
Unfortunately the giant he is referring to has not only fallen fast asleep once more, but appears to have slipped into a deep coma.
“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do – his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about ‘how hard it is;’ he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn’t go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?”
I sure wish I knew who to credit with the inspirational paragraph above. I would like to thank that writer for the reminder and the motivation.
Now if you will excuse me, I must return to some training of my own.
Semper Vigilans,
C1
ILLEGAL ALIEN BASHES BORDER PATROL AGENT IN HEAD WITH ROCK, AGENT SEVERELY INJURED
Read More at http://charlieuno.com
Still want to quit?
