He's certainly the man for the place." "Oyez! Oyez!" roared the Ring Tailed Panther with mouth wide open.

"Come all ye upon the common, an' hear the case of Texas against Mexico which is now about to be debated.

The gentlemen representin' the other side are on the west shore of the river about a mile from here, an' after decidin' upon our argyment an' the manner of it we'll communicate it to 'em later whether they like our decision or not." They poured upon the common in a tumultuous throng, the women and children forming a continuous fringe about them.
"I move that John Moore be made the Chairman of this here meetin' an' the leader in whatever it decides to do, 'specially as we know already what it's goin' to decide," roared the Ring Tailed Panther, "an' wherever he leads we will follow." Ned said nothing, but his pulses were leaping.

Perhaps the silent boy appreciated more than any other present that this was the beginning of a great epic in the American story.

The young student, his head filled with completed dramas of the past, could look further into the future than the veteran men of action around him.
The debate was short.