Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-11-13
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TO tho Editor of tho Morning Courier & N. York Enquirer
Sln-ln your paper OF Saturday last long editorial
article appears, headed Texas and giving an ncor-
rect statement of that important question The piece
nti-American, and feel that / will be sustained in
this; for, where is there any American who shrnks at
the appelatOn 80 Taitor and who has any character TO
lose, that would be found in the of the despots who
are now basely attempting 10 transfer upon the Republic
can institutions of the United Mexican States and esa-
blish their ruin the vilest of dcseotsm viz a
prleSt-ruled military government
You call the numerous and highly respectable meeting
OF American citizens at the Arcade in New Orleans "a
Knot would beg leave to inform you that there were
gentlemen there who incapable of unjust or dis
honorable act, and as distinguished for intelligence and
integrity You tell us Of international law, Of Joachim
Murat, Arbuthnot Ambrister, &C. but you tell us moi
word OF Algernon Sydney, of John Hampton, of La.
iayette OF lhaddcus Kosciusko of George Washington
and OF all the patriots OF 76 who with hundreds more
all OF whom had the honor being ''Rebels whom the
world has praised and poserity will praise and for what
did those noble spirits strive? Was it not for a Const
tuition of liberal laws and against misrule monarchy
prescraft and despotsm? nd is this precisely the
cause IN which the people of Texas are engaged?
aver that it is, and every liberal the Mexican
States whether his birth place European or me
rlcan, is with them.
By your representation of the cause which induced
American citizens to migrate TO that country is the
greatest error of all You say, Those people of
have not the slightest shadow of right on their Ii
was the land spectators of large cities that ind
them to CO. Nc
Can you be ignorant that when the Mexican colonies
threw off the Spanish yoke and acknowledp a
free and independent people by the principal nations of
Christendom, that they adopted Constitution and Re
world their freedom, they invited "thc citizens of all
naons TO come and enjoy with them their fine country
constitution and laws which laws their present ruler has
now VIGOROUSLY and basely violated; Large bOunes of
land were offered to the citizens of all nations if they
would migrate thher. Under the lFgis of their Consti
tuition ana the large Inducements held out, many citizens
Of the u STATES, with much toll and privation moved
there. They expatriaed themselves to better their con-
don, and secure a parmony Tor their children for ton
years Of them suffered every priyaon they
slept upon rushes and lived upon roots the fsh-hook
and The rife were the principal sources from whence they
derived their susenance. And now, when they have re-
claimed The wilds-wen that wilderness is beginning to
bloom rose, and by the labor of their hands 10 become
the Eden OF America, they the countrymen of Washing
ton and Jefferson, must be driven forth like dogs be-.
cause they ask for the ul6mcnt of that Charter under
the alurcments Of which they left their early associa
tons, their friends and the homes of their fathers Is il
for this, ask, that they be called "Rebels!" No
Every American, both North and South and central
who Is not recreant to the of liberty will suslan
them in their Struggle for the Constitution of e24 that
guaranteed their rights.
With the charter of 1894 the People Of Texas, would
not want TO secede from the Mexican Onvi States; but
they do want to restrict the msrue of despot whose
only advisers are cowed monks who in tie language
OF Mexican patriot General, 'has reduced the county
to worse situation than before the Revolution
Who has put bnck the ofReforin more than one
hundred years IL will be well now to remark as the
cause OF the rIes ofthat country not well understood
that unhappy people are now late il is fighting the
great battle of"he Reformation, Inch has for so ma
ny centuries distracted the world which every christian
nation has felt and of which England and Frunce and
Scotland aud Ireland have had such ample share.
This writer, too, almost tells Mexico to issue letters of
maTque and rcPrisIi against our commerce, &c. The
only notice that this silly thing deserves is a smile
What better sport would hardy tars desire than
suits to which that step would lead? Again he says
increase to US srun This is not true for the sugar
growing portion of the United States is not sufficient 10
supply one-fourth Of their alone; whrreas if
Texas were once ours, we should not only have am
pie supply Sor the prcsent and all future time but still be
enabled also TO cxpwt largely of that important articles
and dare venture 70 assert that this the case
United States would ere long derive additional rcye.
nue. from ihenoe Of eight to ten millions annually
Finally,d weud be glad to be informed how this writer
would prevent United States citizens from volunteering
assist their brethren and blood who have actually as
plain and just grounds for ressance had the patriots
Of IS? 1 might have said Just; for the former
have, ought to have, and shall have, Constitution
You approve, omit TO ceDeure the Of England
and Franco, who have permitted roiUnters to 20 20
Spain and Portugal, TO assist The Of monarchy
there; and you brand with opprobrium Americans who
feel sympathy for their brethren who struggling for
not less pure ard holy than ha for which Henry
Numbered and Warren died Like thosc--you wron9
them whether life death awaits them their end viii
be glorious. n Citizen of Nel0 Orieans