and he out of particular friendship to the emigrants, graciously condesended to kill his darling in its infancy. To Guerrero, succeeded Bustamente, the Vice President. The latter was considered the antipode of the former. Under his rule was enacted the law of the sixth of April, 1830. The eleventh section of which prohibited the emigration of natives of the United States of the North - but, none other - this totally seperated many of the first emigrants from their relatives and friends, who intended to have removed to the country, and had disposed of their property to do so. Families and the nearest ties of kindred and friendship were thus severed. Bustamente, was displaced by Santa Ana, who was extoled as the great apostle of equal rights. He was represented as standing in the portico of the Temple of Mexican Liberty, with his brows bound with a patriot's wreath, unrolling and vindicating the constitution and laws of his country. Him, the first Convention, memorialised, petitioned, we will not say supplicated - he answered all their prayers with the silence of contempt. The second Conventiton, again petitioned and memorialised this man, and "to make" assurance doubly sure, and to take a bond of fate, sent one of their most respectable and influential citizens on to the city of Mexico, to solicit in person in behalf of the rights of the people of Texas. This distinguished citizen, Santa Ana, without ceremony thrust into prison, and continued his dark and gloomy durance, for perhaps, more than eighteen months. And then only released him, to administer to his own wants. - enough - Fellow citizens, what are we contending for. - If this same Santa Ana, should to-morrow offer reconciliation and a guaranty for our rights, what would his offers be worth? can true reconciliation ever grow, where roots of hatred have struck so deep? His guaranty, what would it avail before the God of his devouring ambition? The anglo Americans and the Mexicans, if not primitively a different people, habit, education, and religion, have made them essentially so. The two people cannot mingle together. The strong prejudices that existed at the first emigrations, so far from having became softened, and neutralised, by contract, having increased many fold. And as long as the people of Texas belong to the Mexican nation, their interests will be jeopardised, and their prosperity cramped. And they will always be more or less effected by the excitements of that revolutionary people. Of all the times for Texas to declare herself independent, the present is perhaps, the most exquisitely appropriate. The causes
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