Murrah to "My Countrymen," April 27, 1865
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of those resources and to rendering them available
for our defence.
There are critical conjunctures in the history of all
great nations when the people must rise into
the heroism or sink into servile insignificance
and national degradation.
Such a crisis is now upon us.
With this issue presented, involving all other issues
can there be a citizen of Texas in whose bosom there
burns a spark of the spirit of manhood who
will hesitate for an instant.
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God"
Bow then with humility to the Ruler
on high and strike to the tyrant's heart.
I conjure you, my countrymen by all the proud
memories of the past, by the unforgotten glories
of San Jacinto and the Alamo, by the fresh
laurels your valor has plucked from bloody fields
stretching from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
by your love for your wives and little ones,
your mothers and your sisters, by all your
future hopes, and your faith in heaven
to stand fast and firm in your colors
and your country.
They lie, who say our cause is hopeless,
unless all history is false and its philosophy
fabulous we cannot be conquered if we
remain united and true to ourselves
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Murrah to "My Countrymen," April 27, 1865, Records of Pendleton Murrah, Texas Office of the Governor, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.