more than native country, and meeting so many of my friends and companions in its settlement. I left Texas in April, 1833, as the public agent of the people, for the purpose of applying fur the admission of this country into the ~Iexican confederation as a stale separate from Coahuila. This application was based upon the constitutional and vested rights of Texas, and _was sustained by me in the city of Mexico to the utmost of my abilities. No honorable means were spared lo effecl the objects of my mission and to oppose the forming of Texas into a territory, which was attempted. I rigidly adhered to the instructions and wishes of mx constituents, so farr as they were communicated lo me. My efforls to serve Texas involved me in the labyrinth of Mexican politics. I was arrested, and have suffered a long persecution and imprisonment. l consider it my duty lo give an account of these events to my constituents, and will therefore at this lime merely observe that I have never, in any manner, agreed lo any thing, or admitted any thing, that would compromise the constitutional or vested rights of Texas. These rights belong to the people, and can only he surrendered by them. 1 fully hoped to have found Texas al peace and in tranquility, but regret to find it in commotion; all disorganized, all in anarchy, and threatened with immediate hostilities. This state of things is deeply to be lamented; it is a great misfortun.e, but it is one which has not been produced by any acts of the people of this country: on the contrary, it is the natural and inevitable consequence of.the revolution that has spread all over Mexico, and of the imprndent and impolitic measures of both the general and state governments, with respect to Texas. The people here are not to blame, and cannot be justly censured. They are farmers, cultivators of the soil, and are pacific from interest, from occupation, and from inclination. They by pacific means, and have never deviated from their duty as Mexican citizens. If any acts of imprudence have been committed by individuals, they evidently resulted from the revolutionary slate of the whole nation, the imprudent and censurable conduct of the stale authorities, and the total want of a local government in Texas. It is, indeed, a source of surprise and creditable congratualtion, that so few acts of this description have occurred under the peculiar circumstances of the limes. lt is, however, lo be remembered that acts of this nalure
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