the minds of men were prepared lo receive the truth with candor and to examine it ·with impartiality. But as I helicve "truth is mighty and will prevail," so I believe it is never too soon to exhibit the truth lo an intelligent people, who are able lo comprehend, and will eventually appreciate and applaud it. The re,·olution of Texas is an event nol paralleled in the history of nations. From the dispersion at Babel, to the present time, an instance cannot be found thal bears any thing like a strict analogy lo it. That a few foreign emig:rants, invited into a wild wilderness, and for many years, a derelict country, should al the lapse of 15 years from the yet commencement of their settlements, and while they were few, without revenue and without any of the ordinary equipments of war, forcibly secede from, and put lo defiance a government controlling the energies of eight millions of people, whose territory and population adjoined unto them, is an anomaly in the history of man, which transcends all the common criteria of political action. That they should finally succeed, was almost warranted by the very audacity of the enterprize. But such warrant could afford no authority to the pmdent politican, for he is bound to predicate his calculations and to draw his conclusions from ordinary events, otherwise the lights of history and the lessons of experience, from whence are extracted the best rules of political science, are aJ together inutile. The government of Texas felt the novelty of its position: and it has essayed, by one bold stroke of policy to add a grand and brief climacteric to the phenomena of her national struggle. The birth of a nation is usually painful, convulsive and protracted; but had that treaty been perfected, the national nativity of Texas would have been comparatively, the event of a day, almost without a throe; and reciprocally advantageous to the Mother Country and to the infant Republic. Mexico herself, is but a novice in the practice of self-government. Her population for the most part is ignorant, uncultivated and addicted to all the absolute foUies of the Romish Church, the mother of modern despotism. To a people so circumstanced, government is an oecult science, which the great mass are willing to surrender lo the more astute and educated few. The common principles of morality are ill understood and badly practiced. Honesty, patriotism, fidelity, are mere hypothetical terms, which have a ritual existence in the ceremonies of a gaudy and meretrieiom; superstition; but are without practical influence
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