nntl the lfaucrcrs of his lawl•.!ss despotism. All of Mexico, but Texas, has suhmittc<l to this, and she is waging a war against it with all the energies of an infant and much oppressed people. If it be asked, why have the people of Texas submitted so long lo such a constitution, I answer, that for the first few years their numbers 01· wealth did not allract the n01ice or cupidity of go- vernment. 2<lly, the incessant revolutions of Mexico kept their allention from Texas for many years more. 3dly, they submit- ted from physical inability to resist. And 4thly, they were de- termined to prove themselves a law and oath abiding people, and in case of rupture with Mexico, to show to the world that they were not the aggressors. This rupture has been brought about, and it is folly to think of ever healing the breach. The consti- tutio1\ has been destroyed, and it is idle to think cf restoring it. If restored, I have shown that no republican can live under it. ,v e have no right to conclude, that if re-established, it will be amended so as to be made more republican and more congenial with our wi~hes-for in all their changes and commotions, each party contends for the established religion-it is the last thing they will part with-believing it to be th, anchor of their hope and salvation here and hereafter. But granting that the federal party should tl'iumph-that the monster centralism should be crushed, and that the constitution should be amendetl so as to make it appear, on parchment, the most unexceptionable charter of hu- man rights known to the world, have we any reason to believe or to hope, from their demonstrated incapacity of self-government, and from their incessant past revolutions, that it will be or can be administered for a day? But, as I before said, it is idle to talk of the constitution now. Texas must be Independent. The tie between her and Mcxico,is severed, and that by the injustice and violence of Mexico. It can never be re-united-for between the colonists and Mexicans there is an almost total dissimilarity of soil, climate, productions, pursuits, interests, habits, manners, education, language and religion. No. IV. In my last I contended that none of those ties which are neces- sary to bind a people together and make them one, existed be- tween the colonists and Mexicans. That there was an almost total dissimilarity in the soil, climate and productions of the regions of territory they respectively inhabited; and that superadded to
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