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AMERICAN IDSTORIOAL ASSOCIATION
EmroRIAL IN THE TEXAS GAzETrP. 1 Letters have been received by a gentleman in this place from per- sons high in office nnd in the confidence of the nation. Their letters express the most friendly and natural disposition towards this and all other colonies or settlements in Texas that have been legally es- tablished. Great solicitude is manifested in these letters for the prosperity of this country, and for its advancement. They say in positive terms, that none of the rumors which agitated public opin- ion as to Texas last spring had their origin from this colony; neither has there ever been any unfavorable impression against it. These rumors, they say, originated from a great mass of newspaper and other publications in the U. S. of the north-stating among other things, that swarms of adventurers and fugitives from justice, who could remain no longer in their country, were about to overrun and occupy Texas. Such an event would have been ruinous to the tranquility and prosperity of this country, and therefore demanded the prompt attention of the government. It must be confessed that publications similar to that by "A revo- lutionary officer," and many others which contain nothing but 0(11Je and infamous slande1·s were well calculated to ruin us, both in Mexico and in foreign countries. There is cause to suspect that one of the great objects of these slanderous scribblers was to stop the emigration from the U. S. of the north, or from other foreign countries to Texas. . . . They appear to have ncted on the prin- ciple to make Texas a part of the U. S. of the North, or to keep it doW'TI, and consign it f 01· years to the 1 u:ilderness and the occupwwy of the Indians by dam,ning its reputation so that no Honest, weaUlvy or civilized 1nan would remove to it. . . . We have in former numbers of the Gazette stated that the cause, and the sole cause, of any and all the little bickerings and confusion that may have existed in Texas, since 1821, have proceded from the want of a proper organization of the local government, and especially of the judiciary. In this respect a change is necessary, and is daily becoming more so. It has become a matter of serious doubt whether Texas will ever rise or prosper, so long as it is united with Coahuila. The question of separating, with the view of form- ing a territorial government, as a territory of this nation, is begin- ning to occupy much of the public attention. This is a serious question, and merits the most calm and mature reflection.
1 Sept. 25, 1830. Written by Austin,
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