8-5-1846: “Your government is in the hands of tyrants and usurpers. They have abolished your State governments, they have overthrown your federal constitution . . . despoiled you of your arms"

Brev. Maj. Genl. Z[achery] Taylor, “Your government is in the hands of tyrants and usurpers. They have abolished your State governments, they have overthrown your federal constitution, they have deprived you of the right of suffrage, destroyed the liberty of the press, despoiled you of your arms, and reduced you to a state of absolute dependence upon the power of a military Dictator.”, Aug. 5, 1846