A School History of TexasRow, Peterson, 1912 - 384 pàgines Front inside cover of book states; This is the property of the State of Texas Cotulla High School, LaSalle Co. Issued to Helen J. Allen 1926-27. |
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A School History of Texas Eugene Campbell Barker,Charles Shirley Potts,Charles William Ramsdell Visualització completa - 1921 |
A School History of Texas Eugene Campbell Barker,Charles Shirley Potts,Charles William Ramsdell Visualització completa - 1912 |
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ADDITIONAL READING Agricultural Alamo Americans army Austin Bancroft battle of Gonzales battle of San became began Bolton and Barker bonds Brazos building cattle CHAPTER Civil College colonists colony Confederate Congress constitution convention cotton crops Davis debt declared early East Texas established expedition Fannin fight French Galveston Garrison Goliad Goliad massacre Gonzales Greer county Historical Association History of Texas hundred important independence Indians industry James Stephen Hogg legislature March ment Mexican Mexico Mier expedition miles million dollars mission Mississippi Nacogdoches negroes North party population President Burnet President Houston President Lamar prisoners public lands public schools Quarterly railway reconstruction republic revolution River runaway scrape Sabine Sabine Pass San Antonio San Jacinto Santa Anna Santa Fé school system secession settled settlement settlers slaves soldiers South Southern Spain Spaniards Spanish Texans Texas revolution Texas State Historical thousand tion town Travis Union United vote Yoakum
Passatges populars
Pàgina 217 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Pàgina 316 - ... 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.
Pàgina 206 - You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure, and hundreds of thousands of precious lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence, if God be not against you, but I doubt it.
Pàgina 114 - PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves. TRAVIS.
Pàgina 299 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. ... It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Pàgina 113 - Fellow citizens & compatriots I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat.
Pàgina 299 - 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.
Pàgina 128 - The horrors of crossing the Trinity are beyond my power to describe. One of my little sisters was very sick, and the ferryman said that those families that had sick children should cross first. When our party got to the boat the water broke over the banks above where we were and ran around us.
Pàgina 316 - 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.
Pàgina 114 - If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY or DEATH.