[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3722]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, on March 2, 1836, 178 years ago, the Republic 
of Texas was born with the signing of the Texas Declaration of 
Independence. The last paragraph on the sacred document reads:

       We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the 
     people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to 
     a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do 
     hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection 
     with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the 
     people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and 
     independent republic, and are fully invested with all the 
     rights and attributes which properly belong to independent 
     nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, 
     we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the 
     decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.

  May God always bless and never forget the Republic of Texas.

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