But we Americans are born free! If you can not feel the difference between a federal constitution and a military and religious despotism, there is simply no use talking to you.

How would you like to find yourself in a country where suddenly trial by jury and the exercise of your religion was denied you?
Of course you could abandon the home you had built, and the acres you had bought and put under cultivation, and thus make some Mexican heir to your ten years' labor.

Perhaps a Scot, for conscience' sake, would do this.'" "And what answer made he?
He said, 'A Scot kens how to grip tight to ten years' labor as well as yoursel', Faulkner; and neither man nor de'il can come between him and his religion; but--' 'BUT,' shouted Faulkner; 'there is no BUT! It is God and our right! God and our right, against priestcraft and despotism!'" "Then every one of us leaped to our feet, and we swore to follow Faulkner to Texas at an hour's notice; and Sandy said we were 'a parcel of fools'; and then, would you believe it, father, when our boat was leaving the pier, amid the cheers and hurrahs of thousands, Sandy leaped on the boat and joined us ?" "What did he say then ?" "He said, 'I am a born fool to go with you, but I think there is a kind o' witchcraft in that word TEXAS.

It has been stirring me up morning and night like the voice o' the charmer, and I be to follow it though I ken well enough it isna leading me in the paths o' peace and pleasantness!'" "Did you find the same enthusiasm outside of New York ?" "All along the Ohio and Mississippi we gathered recruits; and at Randolph, sixty miles above Memphis, we were joined by David Crockett." "Jack!" "True, father! And then at every landing we took on men.

For at every landing Crockett spoke to the people; and, as we stopped very often, we were cheered all the way down the river.