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said he wanted to die.- After this a year or more a meeting was held at Toluca by the most powerful men of the nation; The Toluca Plan was published and may be fairly considered as being a Govmt movmt with Santa Anna at the head- The Toluca Plan was Central- izm- The meeting was held 12th June 1835. After this Cc11tralizm was the avowed policy of Santa Anna- Many of the States ga,·c into it-Texas did not; hence war with it was inevitable. The Spceulators in Texas who was for war to support Viesca, never dreamed of all this; Cos in putting down the Corrupt Legislature of Texas, done it not with with a single eye to that speculation, but in support of Santa Anna's Centralizm- [Endorsed:] :Movement of the Mexican Army in Texas No. 1658. IIISTORICAL NOTES. JAMES McGLOIN 30 [183-?] San Patricio is in Latitude 27.35 Say 21. miles from the mouth of the Rio Nueces and about 45 miles from the outside Coast or Gulph of :Mexico from the town to the mouth is a very handsome River not less than sufficient water for vessels drawing Eight feet except at the entrance there is a mud bar which has only four feet water. The outer [ ?] Bay which is Called Corpuscristie has a Depth of 8 feet. The Aransasus the Same, but the Bay of corpuscristie is far Superior to either Aransasus or .Matagorda there is not less than 3 fathoms all OYer the inside Bay there can be excellent fresh water Procured all along the Bay the land is Roling high fine and drye with the best of l\Iuscet Grass also Several lakes of fresh water timber is Scarce although there is a quantity of live oak and muscet on it. The Soil is of a black Sandy nature in [quality.] Climate not to be equaled in any country, on the [river] there is a quantity of ash ellem hackberry wil[low ancq dif- ferent other timber from the town of San Patricio there are several quarries of the best of Stone the riYer abounds in fo:!11 of en~ry clis- cription as well as the Bay the Country higher up is a Perfect Sc:eanery of hill and dale all the country out from the river Interspersed with live oak and Musket of the largest kind. Wild Cattle Horses, aud deer in abundance as for turky the are without end, the land also is far Superior to that down on the Bay :?ilc)lullins & l\IcGloins Colony was Granted by the State GO\-t. of Coahuila & Texas on 18th. Agust 1828 on Conditions to he SettlP-cl hy European and North americans, clirect from Said Places the first ex- pedition was commenced in Jul_,. 1829. by both Empresarios Going to New York and Chartering a Brig, and Schooner, in Sepr. 1829, the commenced the rnyag-e with Nearly . . . rmutilatedl hundred familvs mo~t of whic:h the took at their expences for the Port of Aran;asus, on Getting to the ::\fission of Refugio the had to Stop there on account of the Scearsit~· of proYisiorn; being _the mo:=:t c:011,·enient place to obtain Supplys both from Goliad and New Orlean,.:, Some ""Thi~ doc-mnent i,. listl.'d in tlw 1·11lendnr a11 "Anonymous:' A ,;tncly of the h, 1111 Jwl'itinj! lc>a<l11 to the l'onc>lu,dc•n thnt it is I\ draft. _of J ohn ..\lc.\lullen',;, L:unar',- emlor,-1.'llll'llt nnd thl.' c·ontl•xt leud to the 1·om:lus1011_ t_hnt the fuet!I a~e ..\l,·Gloin',;. I hn,·e been unnble to find anything in ..\lcGlom s huncl, snvl.' !11s bi!(llllture, " :::nut iago ..\IrGloin' '.
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