another portion of the same people lo reject the new system and aclhcrc _lo the old, or lo adopt such other form of Government as their circumstances or prcdileclions may recommend. That the di:5sol11tion of the government is virtually a dissolution of the political union ; and the parls that compose that union being sundered, each one reverts to its original sovereign( y. That this is emphatically true of an association of free and independent Stales, as was the late confederation of ~lexico. Resolved, That confiding in the correctness of the informa- tion we have received from various quarters, we consider the federal Republican Government of the Mexican United States as subverted, dissolved, annihilated; and that the allegiance of every citizen to that Government is, necessarily, absolved and of no more political or moral obligation. Resolved, That although we consider it premature to pronounce definitely upon the new Government, established or to be estahlishccl, at the City of Mexico, because the particular consiLution of that government has not been made known to us, we are ready now and at all times to declare our utter abhorrence of any Government that is purely military in its character; and are now and at all times ready to resist the imposition of such a Government with all the means and aJI the energies that Providence has conferred upon us- That we consider even the turbulence of a distracted republic incomparably preferable lo that sickly quietude of a military despotism, or to the still more odious domination of a secularized and ambitions priesthood. Resolved, That we nevertheless entertain a cheering confi- dence in the distinguished leading cili'.lens of our adopted country that they will not perm it the land of their birth and their affections to lose the dear bought benefits of so many revolutions, by one inglorious revolution retrograde by a sudden transition from light to darkness, from liberty lo despotism. That they will organize a system of Government in accordance with the spirit of the 19th century; a Government based upon wise and equitable laws, with such a distribution of the three cardinal powers as will assure to each individual all the guarantees necessary to rational political liberty. Resolved, That we have marked with surprise a disposition to allrihute the late movements of the General Government to a recent reported speculation in the lands of Texas, and lo charge the speculators as the authors of the present disquietude. Thal we reprobate all nefarious and fraudulent speculations in the public domain as warmly as any portion of our fellow-citi'.lcns can do; but
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