Indeed, I will confess that I could only compare him with the Efreet in the Arabian tale, 'whose nostrils were like trumpets, his eyes like lamps, and who had dishevelled, dust colored hair'" "But, to proceed; what were the strange words ?" "Thus he spoke, and his voice rang out like a clarion: "'You will fight as men fight for their homes, and their wives, and their children, but also--remember this--the idea of Texas is in the American heart! Two generations they have carried it there! It is your destiny to make the idea a fact! As far back as eighteen nineteen, Adams wanted Texas.

When Adams became president, he told Poinsett to offer Mexico a million of dollars for Texas.

Clay would have voted three millions.

Van Buren, in eighteen twenty-nine, told Poinsett to offer five millions for Texas.

I went to Washington that year, and proposed to revolutionize Texas.