through their means the Spaniards were a second time expelled, and through Texas the means were afterwards principally obtained, by which the Mexicans were greatly assisted in establishing their independence. A sort of central government was estahlished in Mexcio, to which the Texians gave their adhesion, were encouraged and rewarded for their aid in expelling the Spaniards, in order to afford additional security against the common enemies. Texas was therefore won by those who now hold it. It was theirs by conquest, as much as Mexico, San Louis, or Vera Cruz was won by the inhabitants of those provinces. But these distinct parts of the dismembered Spanish vice royalty, had no more right lo lord it over Texas than they had to lord it over each other. If they united afterwards to form a league, or a common government, it was by the consent of the parts, as in the case of our confederacy. Neither Mexico nor Vera Cruz fell heirs to all the claims of Spain, or were the residuary legatees of her power in this part of America. Texas belonged to the people of Texas, and these were nearly all natives of the United States. They joined the confederacy of 1824, upon the footing of one of the states, hut this has been put down by the bayonet, after many bloody battles in .Mexico, in which Santa Anna has principally acquired all his military reputation. Texas remained faithful to Lhe constitution; the consequence was, that a military force was marched lo compel its inhabitants to submit to Santa Anna, to deliver up their arms, to profess the Catholic religion, or to quit the country. The truth is, their aid against Spain was no longer needed; they had built handsome towns and villages; they had established hundreds of plantations; they had filled the prairies with innumerable herds, and here was a tempting booty to the Mexican officers. The pretext of putting down negro slavery is ridiculous, when we consider that African slavery was never introduced into Mexico, because the Mexican civilized Indians have always been held in a state of servitude more abject and more convenient. Some great proprietors have as many as a thousand, and even two thousand, of this kind of enslaved peasantry, and they would have stocked Texas with them without delay. The whole of New Spain, according to Humboldt, contained five or six millions, with only six thousand Africans, and their descendants. Can we suppose that the Spaniards, the authors of negro slavery in America, and who have so extensively introduced it in their islands, would have shown this strange anomily as respects Mexico, from a conviction of the injustice of slavery? The subject deserves to be deeply pondered. This is a plain statement of the case.
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