Faulkner's only hope for him is in the independence of Texas.
He had us on fire in five minutes--all but Sandy McDonald, who loves to argue, and therefore took the Mexican side." "What could he say for it ?" "He said it was a very unjustlike thing to make Mexico give her American settlers in Texas two hundred and twenty-four millions of acres because she thought a change of government best for her own interests." "The Americans settled in Texas under the solemn guarantee of the constitution of eighteen twenty-four.

How many of them would have built homes under a tyrannical despotism like that Santa Anna is now forcing upon them ?" asked the doctor, warmly.
"McDonald said, 'There is a deal of talk about freedom among you Americans, and it just means nothing at all.' You should have seen Faulkner! He turned on him like a tornado.

'How should you know anything about freedom, McDonald ?' he cried.

'You are in feudal darkness in the Highlands of Scotland.

You have only just emigrated into freedom.