Though Ive made my love of Texas my lifes work, Im reminded that outsiders dont always share the same view of the Lone Star State. I get a big kick out of the the negative opinions about Texas that have been written over the years, especially those that are over-the-top. The Texas quote of the day was penned in 1842: Texans are a people whose existence as an independent nation is owing, first, to their own base treason, and secondly, to a political juggle of Andrew Jackson. Texas is filled with habitual liars, drunkards, blasphemers, and slanderers; sanguinary gamesters and cold-blooded assassins; with idleness and sluggish indolence (two vices for which the Texans are already proverbial): with pride, engendered by ignorance and supported by fraud. ----- Nicholas Maillard, The History of the Republic of Texas, 1842. I read this to my friend Tom and he said The author says all this like its a bad thing. He must have been a Yankee!
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:18:58 +0000
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