[Transcript of letter from the Ayuntamiento of Gonzales to the Mexican Congress, July 28, 1834] Page: 3 of 7
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engendered among ourselves and factions established which brought
) ^ on a cifil war, the baleful influence of which was never felt by the
O
Colonists^ nor indeed in Texas until the Year 1832.—
The Mf&itary garrisoned in Texas at that period were without a
general officer in the province, and the Commandant at the Post of Ana-
huac assumed to himself authority over the personal liberties of our
Citizens, forcing many of them into prison, and keepintg them there
in direct contaavention to the laws of the land, and annihilating the
Civil authority of the Municipality of Liberty by dispersing the
^em bers of the Ayuntamiento with an armed force when assembled &n of6
ficial business.—These and the like outrages, wholy repugnant to the
Constitution and Laws, greatly incensed a "free born people, and
elicited the spirited remonstrances of the local civil authorities of
Texas against such arbitrary, illegal and oppressive acts.--
But in vai& did they remonstrate, for An time we were threatened
with an attack from his soldierly. ^here the people of Texas
unanimously resolved to rally under the banner of Santa Anna and restor
Law and order.—The difficulties in Texas, of 1832, this Ayuntamiento
are constrained to believe (from circumstances) was purely ca#nal.--
Had there have been at that per&od within the limits of Texas a pru-
dent general officer <?ho had any regard for the ^aws of the Country
and the sacred provisions of our inestimable Constitution, or if Cd.
Austin could have been in Texas at the commencement of the disturbances
of the Military, this Ayuntamiento verily believe that from his
known attachment to the institutions of his country and his conHr^^L-
iatory disposition that he would have succeeded in allaying the fury
of an idle and refractory military before they had by repeated outrages
and inqu.lt driven the people to the necessity of the occurrences at
Anahuac, ^elasco^and Nacogdoches.--But Col. Austin was absent the
dS&nnco of seven hundred miles ii the interior
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[Transcript of letter from the Ayuntamiento of Gonzales to the Mexican Congress, July 28, 1834], letter, July 28, 1834; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216843/m1/3/?q=%22Social+Life+and+Customs+-+Correspondence%22: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.