THE AUSTIN PAPERS 793 against settleing Texas are surmounted, and that its progress m future will probably be rapid. There will be populat·ion,-which of course forms a basis for political and social institutions Texas, under the Spanish Govt. was a separate province nnd after the independence it was annexed to the former province of Coahuila which together now form the state of C. & T. The act of congress establishing this state expressly says that they are thus united untill Texas possesses the necessary elements to form a state of itself of which fact the national congress are to judge. The formation of a seperate state govt. may be more distant than the sanguine expect, tho in all probability it will not be very remote. In anticipation of this important event, many of the first emigrants, who have acquired a home in this wilderness by means of toil and privations which have learned them to appreciate its value-have anxiously turned their thoughts to the subject of their local laws, their social regulations- their state constitution- The general basis which they have adopted and will most rigidly adhere to, is to form Texas into a state of the Mexican confederation. They do not wish to seperute from Mexico-and of their own accord never will seperate. If such an unfortunate event should ever occur, its causes will originate in the mistaken policy of the national Govt. of Mexico in relation to Texas, and not in the desire or in the true interests of the people of that country. I state this as a positive and permanent rule of action with the people of Texas from which nothing but the most aggrivatecl injustice can ever cause them to deviate in the slightest degree. I deem it necessary to be the more positive on this point, because opinions of a very different vature have heretofore prevailed amongst some of the Mexicans and even with many persons elsewhere. Those opinions are very unjust and have had a fatal effect-they produced the 11 article of the law of ·6 April 1830 by which natives of the U. S. are prohibited from emi- grating to Texas, and caused the colonists nnd North Americans generally to be viewed with jealousy which seemed at one time to have extended to the Govt. of the north who were suspected of having designs on Texas. Those ideas were all erroneous-they have however pretty much passed away and I think have no weight at this time with any intelligent or thinking man. [Deleted by Austin: It is the firm belief of many that the real objects of the plan of Jalapa, by which the Guerrero administration was overthrown, was to centralize and aristrocracise the Govt. and perhaps to monarchise it-whether that was the object or not I do not pretend to say-Mr. Alaman, the soul of the Bustamante admin- istration, personally hated Mr. Poinsett and a portion of his hate may possibly have extended to his countrymen in general-he is said to 88370.:-28-51
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