reasons assigned by the British parliament in declaring the abdica- tion of James the second, was "that king James the second, having endeavored to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, etc" This part of the proposition is so evident that this committee cannot believe it necessary further to dilate on it, This doctrine goes to the original compact of all ·Well organized communities of men. The government is bound as well as the citizens - if the government break its obligation, the citizen's allegiance is discharged, and the community returns to its first elements. There is no nullification in this - it is an old, and in fact an original doctrine, implied by existing [agreements?] between the governor and the governed. Secondly.- If the people of Texas have the moral and political right to declare themselves independent of the Mexican Government, is it expedient for them, now to exercise that right. In order to illustrate this part of the proposition the committee propose to take a rapid review of the past. In the year of eighteen hundred and twenty one, Texas was an uninhabited wilderness, infested by hostile Indians, from the Sabine river to San Antonio - not excepting Nacogdoches itself - Encouraged by the invitation of the Colonization laws, the settlement of this wilderness was commenced, and continued by individual enterprise, entirely unaided by succors of any kind, from the government - the settlement of the country has not cost the government one cent. The emigrants dared to settle on unreclaimed wilderness - the haunt of wild beast, and the home of the daring hostile savages; and in so doing, poured out their blood like water - who, of the old settlers have forgotten the memorable scenes of the Colorado, and the late gallant Captain Robert Kuykendall? In the successful progress of the settlement of the country, and in the midst of the enactment of the flood of laws proffering protection to the persons and property of the emigrants, General Guerrero, came to the office of the Presidency of the Republic. He and his friends spoke of liberty as a Goddess before whose shrine they were wont to worship. And the inviolable sacredness of person and property - friendship to the emigrants etc. Among the first acts of his administration, was one to free all the negroes - this he said was to give splendor to his official career, and make an epoch in the history of the Republic. And the sole reason, as then understood, that his decree to this effect was not carried into execution was his want of ability to do so. His friends seeing this, kindly petitioned his Excellency to rescind it;
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