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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
posely acted in a manner to call forth the action of that government; but has taken especial care to rouse the abolition quacks of both Eng- land and the united States to unite .all their influence and energies to form a solid phalanx against it. Should that fail, as he believes it will, then he considers that 'l'exas would feel her dilapidated and destitute ~ituation, his contemplated invasion would be called in, his indians marshalled to hold the East in check, the besom of confusion would be hurled among the people of the West, distraction and anarchy will prevail, he will ride on the whirlwind and direct the storm, and we will be safely landed in a Mexican port under a guarantee from Great Brittain and the liberties of Texas abandoned forever. Let an- ·nexation to the United States take its course; but in the meantime let Texas stand firm rely upon her own energies, and she has nothing to fear Empiricism and quackery has been her ruin; she has been hawked over the world for money, begging herself off on other governments, seeking treaties with lawless bandits, and now bartering off her liberties for a mess of pottage. Let Mexico alone, I would as soon seek an acknowledgment of our independence from the Comanche nation as from Mexico. She is worth more to us as she is, than with all the treaties and guarantees we could make, or get, with an unprincipled, faithl~ss anarchial people who obey no law, no rule but that of the sword I now declare open war against empiricism and quackery and enter this my solemn protest against their existence in the country, in any shape or form, however specious their guise, and that I will aid and assist all good citizens in exterminating their present evil con- troll, and make head against their further intrusion in the country through all time to come As an evidence of my determination and good faith I have had the audacity (as some may think proper to term it) to assail this pink of v11,nity, this prince of all humbug, and not only rouse the lion from his lair; but have had the temerity to spear him in his den and drag him forth to the light of the sun: and him, whose name might have been enshrined on the escutcheons of his Country, an~ formed the most proud and bright page of her history, and which might have been hailed with delight by his countrymen, and sent down to posterity as worthy of consideration and honor, through all time to come; - you see nothing but a bloated noisome carcass, full of sin and iniquity a nuisance, an abhorrance a disgusting spectacle, viewed with sorrow and contempt, with shuddering, with hissing, a derision, a bv- word, a reproach to the Nation, a horror, a terror, a lesson to the world This is no news paper squib nor is it the commencement of a paper war of crimination and recrimination, I place it on a much higher ground; let me then not be pursecuted, but prosecuted if I have offended the laws by spearing at, what some may consider majesty? If I have been guilty of offense to any of my fellow citizens, it was not intended; let them reflect on .the villanous treatment our brethren from the United States received, whilst lying on the Nueces through the agency of his l\Iexican post office at Corpus -Christy; through which, a party from Matamoros was secretly called in to kidnap, or massacre them by surprise? That useful and to him convenient post office is again in full blast: though honest men are deprived of its use by the interdict of martial law Let them reflect on the equivocal conduct of our hero about this time; on the conduct of the traitor Seguin, formerly a Mex- ican senator of Bexar memory, who has been sent to the interior and
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