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I believe that the proper question is: How shall Texas surrender its moral, economic and social autonomy to a victorious principle of Union?

Since 1865, that question remains open. Texas is a minority that has been, up till now, jealous of its minority right to live its own kind of life. Texas scarcely hopes to determine for other sections, but it does propose to determine itself, within the utmost limits of legal action. That's what this resolution is all about; firearms are certainly part of the equation of our determination, but not exclusively.

If Texas remains quiet and reserved among some of our other fellow States, we may serve only as a Virgilian illustration -sed argutos inter strepere anser olores and seem only to "hiss like a goose among the tuneful swans."