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to compel a submission to the new Government. And the people have to determine whether they also will yield to the power of the Dic- tator. Give up their arms-suffer their country to be garrisoned with strong military posts, and live under the rule and swav of the mjlitary. They must do this or they must prepare for war-they must submit to the milita1>y government -0r defend their province and their righ [ts] with the sword and the bayonet, and they must do this without delay for the enemy is fast advancing on our country. Fellow Citizens, let me again assure you that this is the true state of affairs. These the reasons that actuate the General Government -The sale of the four hundred leagues of land has nothing to do with the subject. You are justly indignant at that sale, so also am I, so also is the meeting which I represent; but that can and ought to have no weight with the public mind at this time. It is too inconsiderable to be noticed when compared to the importance of our country, our property, our liberty and our lives, which are all involved in the present contest between the states and the military..,.-Two spies from Colonel Ugartachea, stationed at San Antonio were arrested in San Felipe, and in thier possession the official correspondence of Ugar- tachea and General Cos was found General Cm, writes to the Com- mandant at Anahuac that the two companies of New Leon, and the i\Ioralcs Battallion would sail immediately for 'l'exas, and that they would be followed by another strong force, which he had solicited the government for, and which he had no doubt would he obtained. Col. Ugartachea says that the business of Texas will be soon regulated, as the government has ordered a large division composed of the troops that went against Zaccatecas, to Texas and which are now at Saltillo; that force is three thousand four hundred men. For what, Fellow Citizens, are they coming, in the name of GOD say not speculation; they are coming to compel you into obedience to the new form of Government; to compel you to give up your arms, to compel you to ha[ve] your country garrisoned; to co[m]pe[l] you to [li]berate your slaves; to compel you to swear to support and sus- tain the government of the Dictator; to compel you to submit to the imperial rule of the aristocra-cy, to pay tythes and adoration to the clergy-For these purposes, Fellow Citizens, they are coming, and for this purpose a party of soldiers it is said have already landed at Copeno. Under the excitement created by all this information many of the people of the juri[s]diction of Austin, during court week, assembled to consider of the situation of the country, and of the adoption of means for its. protection. A declaration to support the General and State constitutions and the officers of the state was unanimously agreed to, and aLso it was resolved to release the gov- ernor and drive the military from San Antonio. Much pains has been taken to persuade you that this meeting was gotten up by speculators, and that no necessity existed for it. But, J!'ellow Citizens, believe no such slanders, pay regard to no such false- hoods. At the first meeting held in which it was resolved that the country was in danger and that the governor should be released, ,James B. l[iller, the Political Chief was Chairman; and in bis ofii- cial chnra-ctcr, he called on the pepplc of his department to turn
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