mine the balance against himself, and in favor of his rival, whoever he may be.
A word concerning our religious privileges in Texas, and I have done with this division of my sub- ject. By those at all conversant with the political history of :Mexico, it will be remembered that in the 1·evolution of 1830, Santa Anna was in favor of the Constitution, an<l consequently opposed by the Priests. At this time they, becoming distrustful of the Americans, fled from this part of the country and have not since returned. At length the influence of those oracles of political as well as religious truths, overcame his repulicanism, and caused him to become a pliant instrument in their hands for the destruction of those heathen 'Vandals' of the north. That Santa .Anna obtained his means of carrying on the present war principally from the Priests, is so notorious that I do not fear to take the responsibility of making tbe assertion here. During the years of my residence in that region we have had occasional visits from clergy- men who happened to be travelling through the coun- try, and who were generally able to collect a congre- gation as often as they felt a disposition to preach.
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