Stexas

In his Lyceum Address in 1838

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…How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow?

Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.

It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us.

I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana;--they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former, nor the burning suns of the latter;--they are not the creature of climate-- neither are they confined to the slave-holding, or the non-slave- holding States. Alike, they spring up among the pleasure hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order loving citizens of the land of steady habits.--Whatever, then, their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

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The great TD treasure is a gift to Murica.

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Found their story..

Worked with a guy who had a very similar experience with his son. He and his wife never really recovered from blaming themselves.

Interesting... We have plenty in Jennings. I've had them in my yard during the daytime.

Like this?

The ranch I hunt on had burned all the thorns off the prickly pears back in the droughts of the 40s and 50s for the cattle and deer to eat water so they were all gone (7300 acres). The owners in the early 90s decided they wanted it back so we planted it all over by cutting it with machetes and sticking the cut part down in the soil and pushing a little topsoil over it. I did that for about 4 weekends over the summer and had more thorn pokes than I thought possible and learned that it is incredibly difficult to kill prickly pear.

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I actually had to do a double take yesterday when I saw it. Saw the troll, didn't feed the troll. :cheers:

350 and about 350 times a year