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surrendered and sent to the priest to Know if they were wright-he ·said yes, Johnson commanding the division to which we belonged then commenced the terms of Capit1tlations with Cos, I got some thing to eat and Left for Brazoria [Endorsed:] Mag Stiffs (account Taking of San antone. [1681] [----- to EDITOR] Letter to a public Journal l\1r. Editor-In consequence of the political exsitement of Texas I as an humble individual and having had the honor, which it is my pride to host, of being born nursed & rised in the land claim the privilege of being heard through the medium of your paper and vehemently protest againstthedoctrin that is now going the rounds and all such Monarchial principles, that is; that no man has any right to express or even have an opinion (in relation to the present all absorbing question whether Texas shall or not-submit-to Military rule) unless he has as much property as certain hoping gofors-come men whats to eat is ready-survile submissive individuals as we have among us. My principles are, that all men ware born equal whether rich of poor and under the constitution which the Dictator Santa Anna has just destroyed garinteed to the most humble of us all the inestimable previlege of speaking writing and communicating our ideas freely. Truth and reason are the only doctrings that will pervail and let them be advanced by the rich or poor are equially valueable But let us dismiss this and turn qur attention to the all absorbing question Shall Texas survilely submit to the distruction of the Constitution which she had sworn to suport and erouch under the banner of a semy barbrious Dictator who acknowledges no law but his will, and his will, shall be obeyed. So says ignorance and survility.-What now is called the U, stales of Mexico, previous lo 1820, belonged to old Spain and she to this clay has not surrendered her title. The people of the collectively in the year 1820 declared their Independence of Spain. In 1822 formed a confede~acy of the States and that confcdricy through the representatives of each stale formed a Constitution 4th October 1824. To shew that the people of Texas
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