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t~~ir representative S F Austin that there was no remedy but "to con- ciliate the military" worn out with repeated and daily outrages the people re;:olved to remedy their wrongs by force- they assembled to the numlier of one hundred hefore the fortification of Anahuac and compelled the place to negotiate upon favorable terms the injuries of which they·complained- Time was given the Garrison under some pretext to carry the Treaty into effect- a real pretext it was too-- they employed all their time in completing the fortification and com- nwnce a fire on the Town when our deluded countrymen were in anxious expectation that the provisions of the Treaty would be carried into active operation- . Here let the historian observe the first Treaty of ruexicans and Texians broken, and point out one that has been Subsequently made that has been inviolate by the :Mexicans-) This act of treachery left the few Colonist 110 alternative than to evacuate the TO\rn which was done in good order without the loss of a man- We pitched our encamp- ment at Seven miles distant from the fortification on Turtle Bayou and next day resolved to make the encampment our rendezvous fo·r a force to he recruited to accomplish our original designs upon the for- ti ficntion of Anahuac which had been protracted by the Treaty- A meeting of the citizens was immediately called at this rendezvous which terminated in adopting uucerimiously the following resolutions (Here come the resolutions to be found in )lrs Hollys pamphlet Turtle Bayou reson) Copies of these were published and Circulated through- out mexico. They produced a powerful effect in reestablishing order and the constitution in the country and the the [ sic J different Gar- risons of Texas having been totally broken up by the Colonists brought about the death of 1'er11n; his hopes mainly lay in Texas to oppose San Amrn, and when he found that all his soldiers had declared in fa,·or of the plan of Vera Cruz, he threw himself ueon his Sword and died (Padilla in 32) 'fhis reYolution in Texas brought the Colonists into the immediate notice of the Go,-t- we were noticed in the pub- lic printi:; of the Nation not only as a growing but already a powerful people The fact of our having taken a stand in the political affairs that agitated the nation now being apparent and the good fortune that attended our efforts in arms at.Velasco Anahuac and Nacogdoches ha,·ing been officially-announced to the ruling authorities of the Xation we were silently reproYerl for haYing taken part in a re,·olution that had for its object our own immediate distruction. There was not in- telligence and Yirtue sutticicnt in the successful party to which we aclhere<l to properly appreciate our motives- we were viewed with jcalon;;y by them rather than brothers united in the Same [cause]- The orlious law of the Gth of .April 33. was still ·in esse- This was a grirn11ce of which we had ercr. and still Continued to complain- Hitherto our memorials h11cl not been responded to hy the Govern- ment in relation t~ its repeal- The people en mass resolved to again approach the Government on this import.ant subject- A Convention w_a" nccorclingly called which met in April of Same yrar with this \'Jew; and this connmtion taking into consideration the inadequate System. of Legislation that existed in Texas unanimously resolved that under the decree of the Genl Constituent Congre~s of the 7th of )lay
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