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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
2D CHARGE-TREACHERY TO THE PEOPLE.
1st Specification-Aiding and abetting Samuel Norris in the commission of the offenses named in the 1st-2d-3cl-4th and 5th Specifications of the 3d charge of the impeachment of Sam 1 • Norris.
3D CHARGE-ACCOMPLICE IN STEALING.
1st sp. Requesting a man to steal a mule for him (the prisoner) saying that he would clear him with his pen as he had done mttny a one before-- • 4D. CHARGE--SWINDLING. 1-Selling to Mr. Cortes land which he had before sold to Mr. Dill, and when the land was to be surveyed, directing and causing it to be surveyed on the claim of Davenport and including an un- provement owned by T. Hampton.
Ii CHARGE--
Possessing a general character of notorious infamy. The committee of arrangements preparatory to an investigation >f the public conduct of Samuel Norris, alcalda of the District of sacogdoches, and of Sepulver, Clerk of the rourt of the ayunta- mento report as follows. Thut we consider the situation of the people of this District, as entirely novel and peculiar, and the situation of public affairs in the same, as unexampled in the history of the world.-That induced by the promises of the Mexican government, as well as by the beauty and fertility of the soil, to emigrate from their native land, the birthplace of freedom, Americans have sought a home in this land of their adoption, among" a people differing from themselves in language, manner, habits, and feeling-That bringing with them their inflexible love of liberty and republican government in this section of the Mexican United States, so distant from the seat both of the general and of the state government, they have found existing here for some time a system of practice that shocks all, the republican ideas which had been instilled into them by their fathers in their own native country. But disdaining to submit any longer to the oppression which has ground them to the dust they now resolve to investio-ate the causes that have led to these lamentable results, and ~ to punish with exemplary justice their authors, after an impartjal and deliberate trail.-The public voice having long proclaimed Samuel Norris and Sepulver to be the agents of these calamities, we now proceed to poin~ out ~o t~e best of our judgment, an impartial mode of proceeding-in their trial.
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