[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3069]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY HOME, 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, 179 years ago, a document from home changed 
the world with 102 final words. These words are:

       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.

  Happy birthday to my home, the Republic of Texas.

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