PAPERS OF MrnABE,\U BuoNAPARTE L.\~AR. 257 that Texas will, no doubt, become a member of this Union, if the other States will admit her into the confederacy. If not, with a territory as large as France,-reaching from the Sabine ·to the Rio Bravo Del Norte-and capable of sus.taining an equal population, it will become a splendid, separate and independent Republic, with a constitution modelled after that of the United States, its independence guaranteed by this government against all foreign powers, and its citizens placed on the same footing with her own as to commercial privileges. As to the prospect of success, there can be but one result to such.a contest- S1tccess and Independence- for '''Freedom's battle once begun, If any man doubt the result, let him contemplate the national char- acter of the Mexicans-a cowardly, treacherous, semi-civilized people, without enterprise, workmanship, or discipline- and a government, without supplies, money, or confidence, and always on the brink of dissolution from its own weakness and intestine divisions. Let him then consider the opposite character of the ·American settlers-brave, hardy, enterprising riflemen-let bim view t4eir locality-having an easy communication with the United States, both by land and sea, but separated frQm the l\foxican Interior, on one side by an ocean, through which their invaders have not a navy sufficient to transport troops and supplies, and an immense desert on the other, through which it would be impossible to subsist an army-let him recollect that if any considerable force should reach Texas, by either of these routes, that it would be impossible to sustain it at such a distance from their own resources, in a new and hostile country, whose principal means of de- fence would be to cut off supplies, harass in detail, and never give battle except when sure of victory. Let him then calculate the thou- sands of brave volunteers that will be with them from· the United States, and he wm see that there can be but one result-success and independence, and that the contest will only terminate when every hostile l\Texican shall have been driven out of the limits of Texas, and the "Star Spangled Banner" of our beloved country-the bright beacon of hope to the politically benighted in every nation-shall wave m peaceful triumph from the Sabine to the Rio Bravo-nay, that indignant and successful freemen, may not pause even at that point, but march on until they place the eagles of freedom even on the glit- tering domes of Mexico, hurl the usurper himself from the thr~ne. of l\Iontezuma, make regenerated Mexico, (what it would now be but for priestcraft and tyranny) the fairest portion of the earth,-"the land of the free and the home of the brnve." By order and in behalf of the meeting. GEO. C. CllILDRESS, ) ) Com. Wl\1. K. HILL, ) ''Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, '' Though baffled oft is always won.''
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