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To: ZagFan

Let’s be frank here, Texas needs to break away from the rest of the nation! It doesn’t work anymore... as long as you’ve got these nasty evil liberal cancerous states it will never work..the damage has been done!!


29 posted on 06/19/2020 11:23:56 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas

So long as we can find a Pinochet clone to run things and do proper cleanup


37 posted on 06/19/2020 11:48:01 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: RoseofTexas; native texan

“Let’s be frank here, Texas needs to break away from the rest of the nation!”’

If it was up to the northern Whigs who eventually became the Republican Party, Texas never would have been admitted to the Union in the first place.

Texas’ annexation was passed by a coalition of southern Whigs and Congressional Democrats.

The admission of Texas ignited the long simmering border dispute between Mexico and the former Texas Republic.

The not yet famous Whig Congressman Abe Lincoln gave a speech condemning America as immoral for its war with Mexico. Apparently he later changed his mind about both the morality of war and Texas being a state.

His speech:

https://tinyurl.com/y7bd5ttp


42 posted on 06/19/2020 12:36:23 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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