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aberrations, and divesting our minds of the beguiling influence of excited passion, that all may pursue the path of our country's glory, under the guidance of an enlightened reason and upright patriotism. Our country has recently aspired lo a standing among the Nations of the Earth. Her national character is only partiaUy displayed at home: it has never been developed abroad. Much of her future happiness and prosperity depend upon the moral qualities that shall he unfolded to the world in the development of that character. If recklessness, dishonesty, insnbordination, or want of good faith be exhibited, then indeed may Texas have cause to mourn over her abused independence, and Lo sigh for the potsherds of Egypt. But, if a high integrity, concord, obedience to law at home, and a strict observance of all her engagements abroad, are displayed, then will she have cause to rejoice in the hour that she threw off the yoke of an unprincipled and faithless government, and asserted her rights to a distinctive national character. Citizen Soldiers; I would call your serious attention to a rew plain facts, and a few obvious principles connecled wilh and resulting from those facts. The Government of Texas has deliberately entered into a treaty with the President, General Santa Anna. That treaty may be wise, or it may not, time will develope. Be it what it may it has been solemnly made, and the good f ailh of Texas is pledged for its consumation. I would nol speak of the motives which have prompted the Government of Texas to the negotiation of that treaty, had not those motives been obliquely and gratuitously impugned. That they were pure, patriotic, and beyond reproach, we rest for the testimony upon the purity of our pasl conduct in life, and we are assured that they will escape suspicion, except as the vicious and corrupl are always prone to suspect a purity in others, which they are concious of wanting themselves. The treaty has for its ultimate object a firm peace with Mexico, based on a full recognition of the independence of Texas. The price to be paid for this great blcssing,-great, certainly, in the estimation of every good citizen and patriot soldiers the enlargement of the Presitlent, of Santa Anna and his resloralion to Mexico. Out it is alleged that Sanla Anna is faithless, and eminently unworthy of confidence; that h1i is a murderer, and ough L Lo be
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