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and a warm cap of tar and feathers will arrest the poisons from theil· contagious spread if applied in its incipiant stages; but if neglected and permitted to be come confirmed; nothing but the application of the lasso will effect a certain and perfect cure. Let these .remedies be promptly resorted to and it is more than probable that these shy- pokes,-these fowls neither admired for their meat or beauty of plum- age,-who carry a large spread of sail and little ballast, and not by nature fitted for stormy weather, would soon be found heading off,- their long legs run out through the back skuttle to operate as steering oars, with all sail spread, seeking some more congenial latitude; con- sidering our coast too stormy, too sickly, and owr waters too deep, for their favorite frogging operations Partisan papers which may be sustained, for ought I know by the indirect aid of Mexican or abolition gold, not to criticise or scan, but to laud and sustain the acts of his Excellency right or wrong The editors of such papers may be high minded honorable men, who like many others have been deceived; let them now ponder, investigate and scan the proofs thrown before them, and . perchance they may conclude that some thing may be rotten in Texas: let them reflect too, upon what may still remain behind the curtain to be produced at the proper time and before the proper tribunal ;-that this is not intended as a tempest in the tea-pot, or as a rustling out in buckram to scare folks; but the convictions of an honest mind which dares to speak truth If they have sinned unwittingly, let them be guarded in future, for the wages of sin is death Let them recollect that the constitutional high- ways are broken up, the waters are out, the file furnishes no precedent; the sovreign people are appealed to as a corrective, and without their timely interposition, ruin to the Country may ensue ;-that inquity in Texas is now at its full flood,-that the ebb must soon take place, and when it does set out, it will run like a torrent, having no regard for the big timber; the vines and intanglements resting upon it for sup- port, will be very. apt to be swept out with it Let them act thel). as did the harlot of old, hang out the proper signal that they may be known And finally fellow citizens having traced our hero through eight- years; from the commencment of our Government down to the present time, and proved that he did not only commence, but has continued to act in bad faith, and that he has skillfully occupied every inch of wound from that time down to the present in the best possible manner that circumstances would permit, for the promotion of his own sordid views; proving clearly that ambition can creep as well as soar ·Sat- isfied that the surest antidote to the poison of fraud is its detection, has caused me to be thus tedious Fraud and prevarication are servile vices They sometimes grow out of, the necessities, always out of the .habbits, of slavish and digenerate spirits: The glare and glitter of our unexpected presperity in thirty six threw us off our guard, and we have been blindly delivered over to every projector, every empiric and quack, until we have become a proven f sic] and a by-word in the sur- rounding Nations "Virtue exalith a Nation, but sin is a reproach to any people" If we have deserved this kind of evil and reproach for any thing we have done. or permitted, by being deluded and thrown off our guard by unprincipled and designing men, in a state of prosperity. I am satisfied that it is not an object and servile cringing
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