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tion•of opinion should be made throughout the Republic in·'favor of the plan of Veracruz, as the only means to bring civil war to an end, and to secure peace and the constitutional liberty of the Na- tion. I expressed my opinion to the Ayuntamiento, advising them to pronounce themselves in·order to avoid evils and local misunder- standings which prove always fatal. A meeting of the Ayunta- miento took place the day before yesterday, and another yesterday, of the people, which was well attended, and in which the plan of Veracruz was una.nimously•adhered to, the most perfect unison and harmony prevailing in that expression of the public will. The reso- lutions and their preamble contain a true manifestation of the causes·and origin·of the difficulties at Anahuac, and of the objects of those who went to attack Bradburn, in short they offer n con- cise history of the whole transaction. It was said by the partizans of the Cabinet at Matamoras, that the colonists had risen against the integrity of the territory, and a thousand other false and imaginary versions. You may in your visit here have formed a correct idea of the whole affair, and I am convinced that .there was no other object in view, but to show to the despot John Davis Bradburn, that there is-such n thing as the constitution and State of Coahuila and Texas. That man was the cause of the whole evil, loss of lifei and misfortune. I as·sure you most solemnly, that I have not heard, even from the mouth of the most exasperated, one word against any Mexican holding an important command, or in office ·in these colonies: • The complaints are against Davis and Fisher, and most particularly against the despotic procedings of the first, always supported by General Teran. Fisher told me at ].\,fotnmoras, that the untimely, impolitic, and impracticable order issued by him on the 24th of November last, in relation to the Navigation of the Brazos River was dictated by General Teran himself, and cannot be charged to him, as he did but obey: : In such case he has·been very unfortunate, because the whole odium fell on his head. I assure you also, with the same solemnity, that I have not heard one single word; that might countenance insinuations, often made by friends of the Cabinet and enemies of Texas, that the colonists wished to secede and to decla.re their independence from the :Mexi- can Federation. On the contrary, the most intelligent among them, told me that the late difficulties have convinced them more than ever, that to think of such a thing would be the ruin of all. My own and the general wish is, to see Texas forming by itself a State of the Federation, and as long as it .is not so, we can expect no peace, progress nor. government, and in fact nothing.
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