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THE LOADSTONE IN THE BREAST.
"But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard.
The thanks of millions yet to be," "Who battled for the true and just, "And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.
"And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees." The memorial of wrongs, which resulted in the Declaration of Texan Independence, was drawn up with statesmanlike ability by David G.
Burnett, a native of New Jersey, a man of great learning, dignity, and experience; who, as early as 1806, sailed from New York to join Miranda in his effort to give Spanish America liberty.

The paper need not be quoted here.

It gave the greatest prominence to the refusal of trial by jury, the failure too establish a system of public education, the tyranny of military law, the demand that the colonists should give up arms necessary for their protection or their sustenance, the inciting of the Indians to massacre the American settlers, and the refusal of the right to worship the Almighty according to the dictates of their own consciences.

Burnett was elected Governor, and Houston felt that he could now give his whole attention to military affairs.
The seat of Government was removed to Harrisburg, a small place on the Buffalo Bayou; and Houston was sure that this change would cause Santa Anna to diverge from his route to Nacogdoches.