The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 175
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Sketch of Oliver Jones and His Wife, Rebecca Jones. 175
he presented the design adopted by the committee accompanying
the presentation with the following words:
"The committee beg leave to make some remarks on the ground
upon which their conclusion is formed. The President ad interim
devised the National flag and seal, as it were, in the case of emer-
gency, adopting the flag of the United States of America with little
variation, which act was subsequently ratified by the law of De-
cember 10th, 1836. The then adopted flag was expedient for the
time being, and has been specially beneficial to the navy and mer-
chantmen, on account of being so much blended with the flag of
the United States. But the emergency has passed, and the future
prospects of Texas are of such a flattering nature that her inde-
pendence requires that her arms, seal and standard should assume
an independent character, by a form which will not blend them
with those of any other nation. Besides these considerations, the
committee would beg to state that, inasmuch as the proposition
made by this republic in her incipient stage of national existence
to the United States of America for an annexation to the Amer-
ican Confederacy has been withdrawn by the minister plenipotenti-
ary of the government at the court of Washington, and as the wish
of the majority of the people of Texas, so far as is publicly known,
is in favor of sustaining an independent station among the nations
of the earth, we regard the transaction of the single star into the
American constellation and the merging of the single Texan stripes
with the thirteen stripes of the United States of America inex-
pedient.
"The Committee are convinced of the necessity of adopting a
separate and distinct standard and arms for the Republic. . .
Therefore, your Committee beg leave to offer a substitute amend-
ing the original bill referred to them, accompanying the same with
a specimen of the arms, the seal, and the standard."
The National Standard, Seal and Arms, then recommended,
which were adopted and finally approved on January 25th, 1839,
were used by the Republic of Texas until its annexation to the
United States, when slight changes in the lettering were made in
the seal and coat of arms, the word "State" being substituted for
"Republic." "The State flag is the same as that of the Republic
recommended by the Senate committee of which Oliver Jones was
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