Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-09-11

OF Monday, the 10Th August. No clue is
furnished as to the place or manner of the
robbery. But it is suspected, that it took
place between this city and Alexandria
perhaps in or near Fredericksburg. There
is letter from J. A. Caldwell, to Rice,
dated al Alexandria, Aug. 28th, stating
his intention 10 see,Rice in Fredericksburg
that be had pair of horses to sell, &c.
Mr.. Caldwell has pair to sell, now in
this city. 49,
DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS.
The Louisiana Herald contains copy
of Declaration, issued on the 23d of
June, by the Supreme Council of the Re-
public of Texas. The following extracts
contain all that would be interesting to
the American reader =
The citizens of Texas have long in
dulged the hope, that in the adjustment Of
the boundaries of the Spanish possessions
in America and of the territories of the U.
States, they should be included within the
limits of the latter. The claims of the U.
States, long and strenuousl y urged, encou-
ragged this hope. An expectation so fat
tering prevented any effectual effort to
throw off the yoke Of Spanish authority,
though It could not restrain some unavail-
ing rebellions against an odious tyranny.
The recent treaty between Spain and The
United States OF America has dissipated an
illusion too long fondiy cherished, and hos
reused the citizens of Texas from the tor
por into which fancied security had lull-
ed them.-They have seen themselves by
a convention 10 which they weie no party,
literally abandoned to the dominion of the
crown of Spain, and left a prey, not only
toimpositions already intolerable, 'bui to
all those exactions which Spanish rapacity
is fertile in devying. The citizens Of Tex
as would have proved themselves unwor-
thy of the age in which they lived-un-
worthy of their ancestry--ot the kindred
of the Republics of the American conli-
nent-could they have hesitated in this
emergency, what course to pursde. Spurn-
ing the letters of colonial ssaIsge-dis-
daining to submit TO the most atrocious des-
potism that ever disgraced the annals of
Europe--tlhy have resolved under the
blessing of God to be FREE. By this mag
unanimous resolution, TO the maintenance
CT which. their lives aud fortunes are
pledged, they secure 10 themselves an
elective and representative government,
equal laws and The faithful administration
OF justice, the rights of conscience and re-
ligious liberty, the freedom, of the press,
the advantages of liberal education and
unrestricted commercial intercourse with
all the world.
" Animated by "a just confidence in the
goodness of their cause, and stimulated by
the high object TO be obtaine,, by The con-
test, they have prepared themselves un-
shrinking ly 10 meet, and firmly to sustain,
any conflict in which this declaration may
involve them.
'.Done at Naclgdoches, The twenty
third day OF June, in the year OF our Lord
1919. JAMES LONG,
President ofthe Supreme Council.
BIs'TE TARIN, Secretary.
From the Daily National Lteligencer.
INDIAN CIVILIZATION.
The views of the President of the Uni
ted States, under whose direction The an
nual 10000 dollars, appropriated by the
last Congress, for Indian civilization and
are TO be applied, may be
gathered from the sutjoined letter, which,
we understand, has been issued il the
form of circular, by the War Depart
ment, to as many agents as ale known 10
be engaged in promoting the work of In
dian civilization within the limits of
those Indian nations which border on our
settlements"
The information called for is certainly
necessary, as first step in the progress OF
a system which is to be adopted in order
to give to the appropriation its contem-
plated effect.
Doubtless this appropriation will be
more extensively promotive OF the object
intended by it, as an auxiliary fund, esPe-
Cially in such bands as those IN which 1t is
in contemplation to place it, than it could
possibly be made we're it constituted an
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