The Texas Declaration of Independence

True to the Original Every Texas Independence Day we send out an email with the entire text of the Texas Declaration of Independence. All 1445 words.It's a fine way to celebrate the day and honor the men who risked their lives and sacred honor to make Texas free.It always has one of the largest readerships of any message. Every year our readers forward it to over 20,000 of their friends and family members. When we first did it people asked where they could get a copy to hang on their wall.So we looked into it and here's what we found: there are lots of facsimiles available, but they are uniformly small, somewhat crudely printed, and hard to read. That's not surprising if you know the history of the original document. When the declaration was finished and signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a rider was dispatched to San Felipe de Austin with a handwritten copy. Gail Borden worked through the night to set the type and print a hundred copies on 13 by 16 inch paper. Borden used the same sm