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denounce those who have violated, them, and attempt to restore the government. lo its primitive principles or in the last resort you m11sl lake care of yourselves. Already the Scheme of l\lililary proscription has commenced, and Six of our fellow citizens, have been clc111andcd, to he offered up, as victims upon a bloody altar, lo appease the vindictive vengeance, of petty tyrants. Yield to them in this first call, and in a very Short Lime we may expect, that ten Limes Six, will Le required lo appease their wrath. It is a principle well recognized by the ablest writers on national law, that whenever the old government, is destroyed by force, or in a manner, not contemplated by the constitution, the integral parts, which composed, it, have the right lo determine for themselves whether they will accede lo it or not. If this be correct, (and l apprehend, none al the present day will dare lo question it) let us apply the principles to our own condition and Sec, whether we occupy Such a position, as will justify us in deciding for ourselves upon the course best calculated, to promote our own happiness & that of our posterity. Und[erj the federal Government of Mexico as i[t on]ce was, each Stale was of itself a Separate Sovereignly, their rights, and· their powers, were clearly guaranteed under the constitution and no power could divest them of those rights except by their own consenl. The federal constitution, provided the mode in which it might be changed or amended, and unless that method was pursued to the letter nol one of the States was bound to approve or ratify the change. The present government was an unwarrantable assump- tion of power by the clergy & military, it was an overthrow of every thing like liberty or liberal principles, and the chartered rights of the St.ales guaranteed by the constitution were al one fell blow, prostrate at the feet of lawless usurpers. · Let any honest reflecting man, ask himself, if Lhese facts be true?, and there cannot be a doubt, but that lhe answer will be in the affirmative.- If the premises be conceded, if it be admilted, that the form of government has been revolutionized, that it has undergone a change, utterly ineompalible, wilh lhc principles of liherly, and that Texas, has neither acceded to, or declared in opposition lo it, lhcn we hold, that il is a virtual act of war, for Mexico to Send troops amon~sl us without our consent. Ol ur ohljccl then is lo avert I his I whJ ole evil if possible "War, (lo apl c lhe I words of lhc greatest man of lhe dav) is one of those dreadful Scomges, which So Shakes lhe fou111latio,;s of
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