The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 341
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Tadeo Ortiz and the Colonization of Texas, 1822-1833 341
obstacles that a project of this nature offers, without at the same
time calculating the immense advantages of its results and the
inexhaustible resources upon which a well administered and tran-
quil nation can count, a sort of discouragement takes possession of
one. In this conflict the greatest optimism tends to turn into
despair.
This undertaking is great in truth, and the difficulties are ob-
vious; but your Excellency presides over the Republic and the cir-
cumstances are most advantageous for promoting and developing
the sources of national riches, and applying certain funds badly
distributed and more badly used that exist in defiance of religion,
and provoke public misfortune. These can be nationalized for the
benefit of the people and maintenance of the integrity of the Fed-
eration. For the sake of our beloved country do not allow so
favorable an opportunity to pass by. Let the abuses introduced
by fanaticism in the time of ignorance be corrected. The greater
part of the nation is forced by fate to demand this of the law-
makers. Up to this time, because of unfounded fears, negligence
or a lack of patriotism, disturbances and outbreaks which shake
the social structure and arouse the indignation of the Mexicans
have been prevalent but nevertheless, the outworn remains of the
colonial administration continue to be in conflict with the social
institutions adopted; and also with the development of the century
and the demands of the country. These abuses preserve a germ
of trouble of which the factions take advantage, in their turn.
The time has arrived in which the people and not the factions by
the agency of their representatives, may obtain those benefits which
they lack and which, every resentful section of the country de-
mands: that is, tranquility, constitutional reforms and social im-
provements without revolutions.
If then the dearest interests of the country are endangered, if
the national honor and the most essential duties of the supreme
powers of the Federal Union demand the adoption of urgent and
effective measures to save and assure the political existence of the
old province of Texas and northern frontier country, I trust, most
Excellent Sir, that my observations will not be in vain. There
are my opinions which I give you, and you will receive also, Your
Excellency, the distinguished considerations of my profound regard.
God and Liberty, Matamores,
February 2, 1833. Tadeo Ortiz [Rubric]
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