harmless, passive, and inactive attitude, they have been Lransferred to one preeminently commanding, active, and imposing. The North and East of l\'lexico will now become the stronghold of centraJism. Thence it can sally in whatever direction its arch deviser may prefer lo employ its weapons. The counter-revolution in the interior once smothered, the whole fury of the contesL will be poured on Texas. She is principally populated with North-Americans. To expel these from its territory, and parcel it out among the instruments of its wrath, will combine the motive and the means for consummating the scheme of the President Dictator. Already, we are denounced, proscribed, outlawed, and exiled from the country. Our lands, peaceably and lawfully acquired, are solemnly pronounced the proper subject of indiscriminate forfeiture, and our estates of confiscation. The laws and guarantees under which we entered the country as colonists, tempted the unbroken silence, sought the dangers of the wilderness, braved the prowling Indian, erected our numerous improvements, and opened and subdued the earth lo cultivation, are either abrogated or repealed, and now trampled under the hoofs of the usuper's cavalry. Why, then, should we longer contend for charters, which, we are again and again told in the annals of the past, were never intended for our benefit? Even a willingness on our part to defend them, has provoked the calamities of exterminating warfare. Why contend for the shadow, when the substance courts our acceptance? The price of each is the same. War -exterminating war -is waged; and we have either to fight or flee. We have indulged sympathy, too, for the condition of many whom, we vainly flattered ourselves, were opposed, in common with their adopted brethren, to the extension of military domination over the domain of Texas. But the siege of Bexar has dis.solved the illusion. Nearly all their physical force was in the line of the enemy and armed with rifles. Seventy days' occupaLion of the fortress of Goliad, has also abundantly demonstrated the general diffusion among the Creole population of a like attachment to the instiLuLions of Lheir ancient tyrants. Intellectually enthralled, and strangers to the blessings of regulated liberty, the only philanLhropic service which we can ever force on Lheir acceptance, is thaL of example. In doing this, we need not
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