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likewise? She, too, has won her liberty by a successful battle, conclusive as any since the days of Pharsalia. Surely we are not indifferent to the nobic daring that guarded the flying women and children of Texas from a foe that left San Felipe, Harrisburg, and the whole country a smouldering ruin, regardless of social duty as the Cossac or the Creek!-nor forgetful of the liberty won by that small band of our countrymen, whose pre-eminence it is to have conquered the chief and the army that butchered the troops of Fanning and the defenders of the Alamo! Because they are our countrymen their claims are not the less. Other reasons exist why the United States should recognise the independence of Texas before the rise of Congress, and why further steps should be taken in referenee to that country, not necessary to be staled here. Resolved, therefore, That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Republic of Texas is severed from Mexico; that she has a Government, in fact, in successful operation, republican in its character, and which she has abudant means to maintain; that no good reason exists why the Congress and Executive Government of the United States should not immediately recognise the independence of the Republic of Texas. 2. Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, the present session of Congress should not be permitted to close until the independence of Texas is fuUy recognised, and every arrang- ment made with the new government consistent with the best interests of the United States. And this meeting hereby petitions the Executive and the Congress of the United States to give effect to these our wishes; and especially in recognising, in the most unequivocal terms, Texas as severed from Mexico, and that she is a free, sovereign, and independent state. 3. Resolved, That the Executive of the United States, and our Senators and Representatives in Congress from the Stale of Tennessee, are most respectfully requested to use their best exertions to give effect to our petition and wishes as expressed in these proceedings. That twenty copies thereof be furnished to the President of the United States, and five copies to each Senator and Representative in Congress, signed as originals by the chairman and secretarie::. of this meeting. 4. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman, and countersigned by the secretaries, and published in all the newspapers in the State of Tennessee; and t.hat five hundred copies by printed in the form of handbills for the convenience of immediate circulation.
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