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==Quotes==

==Quotes==

* "the people of Texas have too much of the spirit of their fathers to lay down beneath the feet of military despotism, and debase and damn their blood and their education; it is to be broken up, because it will not do for the United States government to interfere with a usurper, a base, unprincipled, bloody monster, who sets the laws of civilization and of humanity at defiance, who desolates Texas under the bloody flag of a pirate, and whose avowed intention is to excite the Indians and negroes, and crimson the waters of the Mississippi, and make it the eastern boundary of Mexico." <ref>[https://archive.org/details/austinpapersocto03aust Austin papers, October, 1834-January, 1837, volume 3], p. 345</ref>

* "the people of Texas have too much of the spirit of their fathers to lay down beneath the feet of military despotism, and debase and damn their blood and their education; it is to be broken up, because it will not do for the United States government to interfere with a usurper, a base, unprincipled, bloody monster, who sets the laws of civilization and of humanity at defiance, who desolates Texas under the bloody flag of a pirate, and whose avowed intention is to excite the Indians and negroes, and crimson the waters of the Mississippi, and make it the eastern boundary of Mexico." <ref>[https://archive.org/details/austinpapersocto03aust Austin papers, October, 1834-January, 1837, volume 3], p. 345</ref><ref>[http://digitalaustinpapers.org/document?id=APB5169.xml Appealing for aid for Texas from the United States], May 4, 1836</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==