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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
Mrs. Robinson is well as are Mr. Whittaker's and Mr. Hoffmans families- you will hear from me again in a day, or two. With great Respect I remain Yours truly John Forbes [Addressed] James W. Robinson Esqr. Member of the Convention St. Felipe de Austin. No. 259 1835 Nov. 16, HE~TRY SMITH, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SAN FELIPE [DE AUSTIN, TEXAS]9°
''Governor's message.''
No. 260 1835 Nov. 17, NEW ORLEANS COURIER. 91 REPORT OF MEET- ING AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE ADDR:BSS . By the Chairman and Secretary, ~n behalf oi a Meeting held in Nash- ville, on the 17th Nov. in favor ot Texas, the procce<lings of wbicb we published yesterday. It is well known that the people of Texas are, at this time; en- gaged in a military conflict with the Mexican Government. But the causes which forced this contest upon them are not perhaps equally well known to the.people-of the United States in general. We will therefore take the liberty briefly to state them. During the long.period that Mexico was despotically ruled by the King of Spain, through the medium of a Viceroy, the jealous and mistaken policy characteristic of Spanish dominion, rigorously excluded the residence of foreigners. from its territories-and ns the Mexicans themselves are an enter- prising, pastoral, mining people-not agricultural in their habits- the vast and fertile plains of Texas remained, during the whole of this period, a slumbering wilderness, their very existence almost un- known excep_t to the savages who made it their hunting grounds, or the occasional traders who traversed it in the course of their adven- turous journeys from the United States to the l\Iexican interior. , ·But about the year 1824, the people of Mexico, after the example of the United States, having thrown off the galling yoke of Spanish bondage, a more libei-al.and enlightened policy began to pervade their national councils and the advantages arising from the residence of enterprising and intelligent foreigners among them, became apparent ..Broadside. Printed in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Genernl Council, 12; reprinted in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, I, 657. tior Dec. 8, 1836.
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