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MEXICO.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
I do not conceive how you can preserve the title of citizen of a
nation at peace, harmony and friendship with Mexico, while, at the
same time, you endeavor to do her all the harm in your power, and
to cut off from her a part of its territory, by means you have em-
ployed with such singular activity. This species of impudence with
which you represent yourself as a citizen of the United States, ex.
cites vivid recollections that your countrymen first commenced the
war; introduced disorder into Texas and still maintain it, in saan-
dalous violation of the treaties which should, in good faith, unite the
two nations. But leaving this examination to the criticism of the
civilized world, which is ignorant neither of the origin, nor the ten.
dencies of the usurpation of Texas, I will quickly show you, that
you are mistaken, and that too, greatly, in supposing Mexico defi-
cient either in strength or the will to maintain her incontestiblw
rights.
We have fully weighed the actual and the possible value of tha
territory of Texas, the advantage accruing to Mexico by retainint
it in possession, and still more by the precarious situation to which
she would find herself reduced were she to permit a colossus to arise
within her own limits, always ready to advance, and covetous to ob.
tain new acquisitions by the rite title of theft and usurpation: but
even were the soil of Texas a mere desert of sand, unproductive save
of thorns to wound the foot of the traveller, this plain, useless, sterile
and unproductive, should be defended with energy and constancy,.
under the conviction that the possession of a right imposes upon a na.
tion the necessity of never abandoning it, with shame and disgrace
to her name.
I promised in Texas, beneath the rifles of the tumultuary (tumuL
tarious) soldiers, who surrounded me, that I would procure a hear-
ing for their commissioners from my Government, and would exer.
cise my influence to prevent, for the time being, a fatal struggle;
and this promise, whose object was to secure, without molestation,
Jhe retreat which the Mexican army had already commenced, and
rvhich I learned with the greatest sorrow from General Wall, natu-
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Anti-Texass Legion. Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations, book, January 1, 1845; Albany. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2356/m1/23/?rotate=270: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.