As my country no longer requires my services, I have made up my mind to go to Texas.

My life has been one of danger, toil, and privation.

But these difficulties I had to encounter at a time when I considered it nothing more than right good sport to surmount them.

But now I start upon my own hook, and God only grant that it may be strong enough to support the weight that may be hung upon it.

I have a new row to hoe, a long and rough one; but come what will, I will go ahead." Just before leaving for Texas, he attended a political meeting of his constituents.