I Preferred Measuring Deer Tracks

Texas Is The Finest Portion Of The Globe That Has Ever Blessed My Vision!

When A Government Has Ceased To Protect The Lives, Liberty, And Property Of The People ... And ... Becomes An Instrument In The Hands Of Evil Rulers For Their Oppression ... It Is A ... Sacred Obligation To Their Posterity To Abolish Such Government, And Create Another In Its Stead.

I Humble Myself Before God, And There The List Ends.

I Would Lay Down My Life To Defend Any One Of The States From Aggression, Which Endangered Peace Or Threatened Its Institutions. I Could Do More For The Union, But I Wish To Do More; For The Destruction Of The Union Would Be The Destruction Of All The States. A Stab In The Heart Is Worse Then A Cut In A Limb, For This May Be Healed.

I Beseech Those Whose Piety Will Permit Them Reverently To Petition, That They Will Pray For This Union, And Ask That He Who Buildeth Up And Pulleth Down Nations Will, The Mercy Preserve And Unite Us. For A Nation Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand. I Wish, If This Union Must Be Dissolved, That Its Ruins May Be The Monument Of My Grave, And The Graves Of My Family. I Wish No Epitaph To Be Written To Tell That I Survive The Ruin Of This Glorious Union.