The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

LITgRATURE. 7'?7,11,

THE HISTORY OF: THE RElViajfelq,o
TEXAS. By N. DORAN • MAILLARD; Eisfir
London, ~S.inith,
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This volume hp.s no. pretensicgi.,,,s .0, OP 4411 i
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fled title of a histbry
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tion of the prodathations,.decrees, ''acts of Con-
gress, conventions, and treaties entered into and
promulgated by Texas during the struggle of her
independence with Mexico, the bulk,of,which
have already appeared in Mr. Ketinally7,S ox,e44r
lent work on the condition and prospectisAt bt.
youthful republic. But though igt. MikiTlar is,
indebted for all the valuable nititbAtilY iir its
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book to Mr. Kennedy, he acquiigsfqt le,lttini to
originality by differing upon every point with
that gentleman. Mr. Kennedy exults. in the.
independence cf Texas; Mr. Maillard. deplores
that event, and deseribes them in the fburth
page of his preface as in, rebellion against their
" lawful Sovereign,. - Mexico," and talks of
their " base treason." .. , So, earnest is :Air.'
Maillard upon 'this point, that in the
sixteenth page of his preface lie suggests that
we should grant a subsidy to, Mexico, such-" as
we used to grant to other nations in the war with •
Napoleon," to enable her to re-conquer Texas!
Mr. Kennedy praises Texas and the Texans; Mr.
Maillard abuses both in terms which a nine
months' residence in that country was very far
from warranting, especially as he tells us in his
preface that during a considerable portion of that
time he had to discharge the duties of editor of
the Richmond Telescope, a newspaper published
in Texas. That the public may judge of the de-
gree of importance to be attached to Mr. Mail-
lard's statements, we shall rest satisfied. With the
.following extracts from his crude,. ill-arranged
volume, to which the columns of the
iucO'htr Zipclo.riibute,
and
,nearly
daily newspapers are Made':
hearly as much as the archives •iifiThe'Tekan
,
`llepublic:— .

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CHARACTER OF THE TE:O,•
"Texas,' a country filled with habitual liars, drunk-
ards; blasphemers, and slanderers ; sangiiinary game-
sters and cold-blooded assassins, with idleness and
sluggish indolence, with pride engendered by igno-
rance, and supported by fraud." " The loafers
are by far the most numerous class, and go about from
one drain-shop for the purpose of gaming and sponging
on their friends, and not unfrequently on strangers ;, but
this latter practice is by far too common in Texas-to be
confined or strictly applied to any one branch of the
community. • • * The Texans, either separately,
or en masse exhibit all the features of a ruthanized Euro-
pean mob, to whom, however, they are greatly inferior
in social refinement, and much less formidable in a mili-
tary point of view."
This character of the Texans, of course, is
meant to apply in the Liggregate to both sexes.
But Mr. Maillard, whiige notions of gallantry are
somewhat peculiar, proceeds to specify the graces
of the softer sex in Texas,. --The picture as paint-
ed by. him is so little fiattering, that we shall
not expose ourselves to the odium of being re-
garded as libellers by describing it. Here is the
original, as touched off by his own coarse
pencil :