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bellion against the Mexican government. This representation
permit me in the outset to contradict -, on the contrary every
resolution which has been formed has been replete with respect
for the constitution & constitutional laws of the country - But
the repeated violations of that guarantee of our rights and priv-
ileges in the arrest by the military of commissioners sent by the
State government for the purpose of putting Citizens in posses-
sion of there lands to which by the colonization laws they were
entitled -- the interferance of the Military in the election of
civil magestrates in direct contravention of the constitution & the
overruling them by military force when elected The arrest
and detention of citizens & the refusing to give them up to the
civil Authority The conferring upon an Individual (viz
gen Teran) an authority over Texas above the constitution &
laws -- And the evident tendencys of the government towards
centralism & military despotism - But above all the duplicity
and dissimulation under which the present administration has
endeavored to conceal the real motives of its conduct by preserv-
ing the forms of the constitution while they annihilated its
spirit; are the principal causes which have induced the people
to take into their own hands the redress of their own grievances.
And they have accordingly declared in every part of Texas (San
Antonio perhaps alone excepted) for the plan of Gen Santa Anna,
who is obstensibly at least, the friend and supporter of the Fed-
eral republican system, & State rights on constitutional principles.
The Tyranny of Col Bradburn, Commander of the Post of Gal-
veston, (Anhuac), in the illegal confinement of several respect-
able citizens, aroused some of the most influential men of Aus-
tins colony, who, to the number of about 50, proceeded to Anhuac,
where they arrived about the first of June - A deputation waited
on Col Bradburn, but the Col denied all knowledge of the con-
stitution & laws, and in fine of every thing except the sword &
bayonet , they therefore determined to use those arguments
in which alone he confided - They accordingly marched down
uppon him, and had already taken possession of the greater part
of the town, when he came to terms; And a treaty was made and
ratified, in which Col Bradburn engaged to restore & respect the
civil authority - & that the Prisoners illegally detained should
be delivered to the civil magistrate, but asked 48 hours to make208
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