Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844

STATE PROSECUTIONS

ADVENTURES IN TEXAS. No. III. THE STRUGGLE

CLITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE

THE NEW ART OF PRINTING. BY A DESIGNING DEVIL

THE BANKING HOUSE. A HISTORY IN THREE PARTS. PART III

CHAPTER I. SYMPTOMS OF ROTTENNESS

CHAPTER II. A MEETING

CHAPTER III. A CHAPTER OF LOANS

CHAPTER IV. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

CHAPTER V. THE CRISIS

CHAPTER VI. THE CRASH

CHAPTER VII. THE VICARAGE

KÍEFF

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN

PART VII

LETTER FROM LEMUEL GULLIVER. TO THE EDITOR

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THE PROCLAMATION

THE FIREMAN'S SONG

POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT

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I had been but three or four months in Texas, when, in consequence of the oppressive conduct of the Mexican military authorities, symptoms of discontent showed themselves, and several skirmishes occurred between the American settlers and the soldiery. The two small forts of Velasco and Nacogdoches were taken by the former, and their garrisons and a couple of field-officers made prisoners; soon after which, however, the quarrel was made up by the intervention of Colonel Austin on the part of Texas, and Colonel Mejia on the part of the Mexican authorities.

But in the year '33 occurred Santa Anna's defection from the liberal party, and the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin, the Texian representative in the Mexican congress, by the vice-president, Gomez Farias. This was followed by Texas adopting the constitution of 1824, and declaring itself an independent state of the Mexican republic. Finally, towards the close of 1835 Texas threw off the Mexican yoke altogether, voted itself a free and sovereign republic, and prepared to defend by arms its newly asserted liberty.

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"Not like Americans? Would you let the enemy escape, then, when we have him in our power?"

"Calkilate I would. Calkilate we should do ourselves more harm than him by shooting down his people. That was a considerable sensible commandment of yourn, always to shoot the foremost of the Mexicans when they attacked. It discouraged the bold ones, and was a sort of premium on cowardice. Them as lagged behind escaped, them as came bravely on were shot. It was a good calkilation. If we had shot 'em without discrimination, the cowards would have got bold, seein' that they weren't safer in rear than in front. The cowards are our best friends. Now them runaways," continued he, pointing to the Mexicans, who were crowding over the river, "are jest the most cowardly of 'em all, for in their fright they quite forgot the ford, and it's because they ran so far beyond it, that they are last to cross the water. And if you fire at 'em now, they'll find that they get nothin' by bein' cowards, and next time, I reckon, they'll sell their hides as dear as they can."

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