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is the aovcrnmenl of the bayonet, and the regulation of all the affairs ~f Texas by military power, regardless of the Constitution, of the civil authority, and of all the legally vested, equitable, and natural riahts of the people of Texas. Thal such is the real and ultimate object of the military power now reigning in Mexico, and that the reasons assigned for the present hostile movements are nothing but mere prelex ts to cover the main objects, and thus fill the country with troops, is clear and evident; but should there still remain doubts on the mind of any person, tel him weigh and maturely consider the following facts, and draw his own conclusions. The Constitutional Governor of the State, Viesca, and also another go\'ernor, Falcon, who had been constitutionalJy installed to suceed Viesca, have been deposed by the military at Monclova. The slate authorities were imprisoned, and a governor appointed by the acting president of the general government of Mexico. This is evidently an act of military usurpation and despotism, and the stale of Coahuila and Texas is at this time without any contilulional or legal government at all, and the people of every part of the slate, and those of Texas in particular, are left at full liberty to provide for themselves as they may deem best. But a more general, though succinct view of matters, is necessary for a full and proper understanding of this subject. A disastrous and ruinous civil war was kindled in 1832, by means of an insurrection against the Bustamante administration, and general Santa Anna was placed at its head. The avowed object of this insurrection was lo protect the federal system, and sustain the Constitution of 1824, which it was then alleged, was attacked and endangered by the measures and projects of the Bustaman le administration. On this principle the people of Texas supported general Santa Ana to defend the Constitution of 1824, and the federal system. This general was en thusiaslically supported by every liberal and free Mexican, and by the friend of the federal system in every part of the nation. With this support he triumphed. He became the man of the people-the protector of the federal system-the oracle of public opinion-the arbiter of the nation's political destinies. How has he used this power, thus acquired? Let the military despotism now enthroned in Mexico upon the ruins of the federal system-let the friends of this
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