- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Ocala, FL (as of December, 2015).
"What is there that is free that we have not? Are our rights invaded and no Government ready to protect them? No! Are our institutions wrested from us and others foreign to our taste forced upon us? No! Is the right of free speech, a free press, or free suffrage taken from us? No! Has our property been taken from us and the Government failed to interpose when called upon? No, none of these! The rights of the States and the right of individuals are still maintained. We have yet the Constitution, we have yet a judiciary, which has never been appealed to in vain--we have yet just laws and officers to administer them; and an army and navy, ready to maintain any and every constitutional right of the citizen. Whence then this clamor about disunion? Whence this cry of protection to property or disunion when even the very loudest in the cry, declared under their Senatorial oaths, but a few months since, that no protection was necessary? Are we to sell reality for a phantom?"
Sam Houston, Address on Secession, Austin, Texas, 1860.
Sam Houston, Address on Secession, Austin, Texas, 1860.