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the State ·of Coahuila & Texas and 11cting at that time as Executive of the State, by the demise of the Go,·ernor Jose }Iaria Letona; thus opening si.t once a wide field for Speculation to the trade of Tex11s, hy supplyiug through her ports the whole of the ~orthern Statl's of i\Iexico with foreig-11 Goods, wares, ancl merchandise, and with Tobacco the growth of Texas, and re<:civiug in return the Specie from the interior, at that time passing through l\Iatamoros, and which b_,· this new Uh1111- nel migh[ tJ be directed to Texas, and there exchanging it for Cotton for Exportation which would serve as Returns for the Goods imported would have yielded both way a lucrati,·e trade and supplied the Country with a sound currency filling the Coffers of the Texian farmers and planters mid leaving its proportionate quota, for import & export duties, in favor of the General and State Governments, according to a revised and more moderate rate of duties, for Texas, as for the other parts of the l\Iexican Territory, taking the Californias, Chiapas, and Yucatan., as precident for the "Exparle" Legislation upon the Mexican Revenue laws and the Tariff of 1826. By the adoption of the above Hated J[easure, the immense lucrntive trade, which is now and has been for years carried on between Missouri and the territory of New Mexico, and whereby neither the Mexican General Government nor that of the frontier States has been benefitted would have found its channel into and through Texas, as the case will and must be, whenever the Government of Texas shall adopt proper steps to secure the benefits arising from this da_yly increasing & lucra- tive commerce. The above stated .Measures he not only advocated, as an officer under the Mexican Government, but subsequently as a Public writer he propagated in his Journal "The Mercurio del Puerto dB Jlatamoros," as it will be Stated in the sequel. He was not permitted, long to enjoy the peaceful pursuits of private life, before he was again plunged on the boisterous billows of political contentions;- His foreign and native friends in Matamoros insisted upon him, to establish a Newspaper in that City, advocating the rights of man, and endeavoring to crush the rising giant of the central Con- solidated Government, a.lu1s" the Military usurpation of Power by Santa- Anna," just emmerging from the political horizon of :Mexico, into its existence, and threatening destruction to the existence of the federal institutions of the Republic, ancl the Dissolution of the political and Social Compact of the Mexican Nation- No remedy was left to him, the entreaties of friends the .feelings of a Republican Spirit, prompted b,v a Soul and Sentiment of a high minded honourable freeman, and the desire of Sustaining the liberal prinriples, by the Stern opposition against tyranny, oppression, and military misrule, at last have prernilecl & yielding to interest, and selfishness and the sacrifice of personal Com- forts and the Sweets of the walks of private life, at the ~\lt11r of J,ibert.v, have been the consequences, and banishment from his adopted Country and nation the recompence. On the 6th of November 1834, he isime<l the fir~t numhrr of his Prriodicnl, a weekly paper, under the title of ".llercurio del Puafo de Malamoro.,;," (in Spanish) with the following appropriate )lotto "Concordia. res par1•ae crrscu11l, Discordia Jlai-ime dilab1111l1tr' which in english is as near as "United we Stand Dil'ided 1l't' fall."- The Senti-
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