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 That Nacogdoches and our Anahuac Are likewise in the patriots' hands.

I will. [Exit].

As sunny rays the snows of April melt, So quickly has our tyrants' might succumbed Before our first spontaneous enterprise. When thus so strikingly the hollowness Of their pretended magnitude is proven, And while they left us without law and rule, Why not declare us here immediately Free and absolved from every fealty, Now and forever, to a Mother-State, Which, ever deaf to our most just complaints, Will find in our revolt sufficient cause For still severer measures of oppression?

My friend, forgive me, if I must declare Thy well-meant counsel out of time and place! Thou once hast told me, that through us thou first Hast learned to loathe the bane of tyranny And to concede to every man his birth-right Of Liberty and Justice. Hence reject Another lesson not, which unaware We have imbibed e'en through our mother's milk.