Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Some of these men served three years after slavery. It takes a real Texan to stand up to adversity, bigotry and hatred to represent a state that held you in slavery. They should be honored appropriately.