Happy Independence Day!

Today is the 70th anniversary of the day that Texas declared its independence from Mexico and formed, briefly, its own nation.

Here’s a bit of their Declaration of Independence.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.

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Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind.

And so, with General Santa Ana’s Army besieging the Alamo, and his soldiers breathing down the necks of those who signed that document, the Republic of Texas was born.

Happy Independence Day, folks.

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