hut that of gold, and recognize no authority but the absolute will of their military chieftains. To give a last finishing blow to the expiring liberty of the country, the hireling army was directed upon the borders of Texas, where still the vital spark glowed with undiminished heal and brightness and threatened to swell into a conflagration that might sweep back upon the tyrant with a consuming influence under which their patricidal plans of absolute despotism would crumble into ashes. No explanation was offered lo the Texians: no new plan of government was developed to them; nothing was left to their choice. Absolute, unconditional submission to the undivulged will of a military despot, was the demand. The people of Texas, as was to be expected, faithful to the principles of that liberty which they inherited as a birth right from their fathers and which was guaranteed to them by the constitution under which they were called to the country, repelled the demand with a spirit of indignation becoming the sons of the heroes of '76. Expressing their eternal abhorrence of despotism, they declared their unalterable determination to maintain and adhere to the free and liberal principles of the constih1tion under which they were invited to the country; their intention to continue in their adhesion to the Mexican nation, and appealed to the liberals of Mexico to aid them in the noble contest, to arouse themselves from their slumber, and burst from about them the chains of a tyrant before they should be rivetted upon them forever. The people of Texas gallantly fulfilled their declaration and their promise: they rushed to the field, attacked the mercenary horde, and drove them from their territory. But no aid was offered by the liberals of Mexoco, no co-operation was effected, no response was made to the appeal of the Texians; and they have been brought unwillingly to the conclusion that no !.iberal party now exists in Mexico, or that if there is one either they have not the courage or the means to offer an effectual resistance lo the usurpations of the tyrant; and that they have ignobly determined to bow their supple neck in unresisting silence to the mililary and priestly yoke. In circumslances like these, what was left to br done by the Texians? Submit? You, our brethren of the United Stales would have blushed with shame at our imbecility and cowardice, and would have denounced as as strangers unworthy of your
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