This cannot be said of Mexico. Not one dollar has she spent for Texas - not one Mexican soldier has ever fought by our side in expelling the savages.

When the people of the United States commenced their war for independence against Great Britain, the friends of Britain charged them with ingratitude.

Yes! the door of emigration to Texas was closed upon the only sister republic worthy of the name which Mexico could boast of in this new world.

Who among us is able to confer with his rulers; to represent his wants and grievances; to ask advice, or recommend salutary changes?

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.