Fellow citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I…

Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my …

Margaret, Texas is lost.

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.

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 has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.