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out, and if intended for an invasion of Texas, would be opposed with the militia of Texas en masse. The political chiefs of Texas, I observe by the papers, have issued proclamations trying to quiet the people. Since I left my Colony, my agent there has written me that General Cos, who is reported to have command of the troops destined for the invasion of Texas, has informed one or more of the political chiefs of Texas, that it was not the intention of Santa Anna to invade Texas; that he wished the people to remain quiet and peaceable, and they would not be molested. I hope and believe that when the present rumors are properly examined, that they will be found to be a part of the old leaven stirred up by the land speculators to answer their own purposes, and \\~II subside as soon as the light of truth shall shine upon them. Some persons I am informed have taken exceptions to my pronouncing the script issued by the old Leftwixh company of no value, in a publication in your paper. To all such and to every one who has script, I now say and have always said, come forward and take your league of land and settle it according to the colonization laws and complain no longer, because other people have a right lo settle in the colony who have no script. And I now again inform them that the script, unless accompanied with actual setllement,is of no value and that a person who actually settles who has no script. has as much land as a scriplholder who also settles. Of what value then is the script when he who holds it and settles, has no privilege over the actual settler also, who has no script. But all scriptholders, as well as non-scriptholders, are invited to come and settle in my colony, as I want three or four hundred families more, and the lands they will get, if Texas is ceded to the U. States, in less than two years from that event, will he worth at least $20,000-to them. I have been also informed that some persons, high in authority here, have said that in the event of Texas going under the government of the United States, that all the present titles to lands in Texas would revert back and be forfeited to the United States. Such an opinion is preposterous and absurd in the extreme, as in all transfers of countries from one State to another for the last two hundred years, it has been the invariable practice to preserve the vested rights and private property of individuals inviolate, and indeed has become a part of the law of nations.-Such opinions could he given only from ignorance, or intended to prevent ifnorant men from emigrating to Texas. At the general peace of 1763, Spain ceded to England the Floridas, and in 1783 England receded them back again to Spain, and in the treaty ceding Louisiana to the United States, the respective parties inserted the private property of
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