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TEXAS.
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an easy and natural transition, is converted into disgust
and disaffection towards the Government and its laws."
The petitioners further represented " that Coahuila
and Texas were altogether dissimilar in soil,
climate, and natural productions; that, owing to the
numerical inequality of their respective representatives,
the enactment of laws beneficial to Texas
could only emanate from the ' generous courtesy'
of her constitutional partner, and that legislative
advantages to the one might, from incompatibility
of interests, be ruinous to the other. Protection
from Indian depredations, they declared to be of vital
importance to Texas, which protection Coahuila was
unable to render: the Indians in their immeHdiate
neighbourhood had been denied justice, which would
be granted by independent Texas. Finally, Texas
possessed the necessary elements for a State government,
and for her attachment to the Federal
Constitution and to the Republic, they pledged their
lives and honours."
Among the various petitions to the general government,
which accompanied the preceding, there
was one complaining of the tariff, a frequent source
of dissension between the settlers and the officers of
the Federation. This petition represented that the
duties on articles of necessity to the inhabitants, that
were not, nor could be manufactured in Texas for
years to come, were so high as to amount to a total
prohibition, and many other articles of prime necessity
were absolutely prohibited. Thie people of
Texas being generally farmers, subsisting by agricultural
labour, and destitute of manufacturing
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/28/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.