And now that the house is made so beautiful! With so much new
furniture! How can you speak of dying?"
"And, my dear father, remember how you have toiled and suffered
for THE INDEPENDENCE OF TEXAS."
"Because, Antonia, I would have Texas go free into a union of
free States. This was the hope of Houston. `We can have
help,' he often said to his little army; "a word will call
help from Nacogdoches,--but we will emancipate ourselves.
If we go into the American States, we will go as equals; we
will go as men who have won the right to say: LET US DWELL UNDER
THE SAME FLAG, FOR WE ARE BROTHERS!"
CHAPTER XVIII.
UNDER ONE FLAG.
"And through thee I believe
In the noble and great, who are gone."
"Yes! I believe that there lived
Others like thee in the past.
Not like the men of the crowd.
Who all around me to-day,
Bluster, or cringe, and make life
Hideous, and arid, and vile,
But souls temper'd with fire,
Fervent, heroic, and good;
Helpers, and friends of mankind."
--ARNOLD.
"Our armor now may rust, our idle scimitars
Hang by our sides for ornament, not use.
Children shall beat our atabals and drums;
And all the noisy trades of war no more
Shall wake the peaceful morn.
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