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selves to the truth of what they assert, that so far from %!/Austin's
conduct or language giving any one the least right to doubt hit
^ attachment to our adopted Country, or his loyalty to the Union, that
he was in fact most strenuously opposed even to Texas being formed
into a Separate ^tate- he was a uniform and steady opponent to that
policy, nor did he vacillate or yield till the overpowering Influence
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of nambers- and those composed of the most talented and respectable
portion of the community- forced him, upon a true Republican basis to
lay aside opposition, and adopt the vie^s and measures of the major-
ity. From the known and tried wort^t of Col. Austin- from his exper-
ience- from the generous and liberal confidence always manifested
towards hiii by the General Government- and the supposed influence he
had with our Rulers, was he selected as the Agent of the people, to
^ lay before the government their wants and their wishes- he went- not
^ voluntarily, in accordance with his own Sentiments, but cheeffully-
Knowtng he was in the plain path of his Republican duty, ^ow far he
exerted himself, on and after his arrival at Mexico, for the attain-
ment of the ob ect of his mission, is not within the knowledge of
this Ayuntamiento- to the groat disappointment of a large portion of
the community it proved fruitless, and his official communication of
the fact to& the Ayuntamiento of ^ejar-under date of 2nd; October
last, was the first direct evidence 66 his Colonists, that he had
fearlessly and in the manner of a Hreeman asserted the rights of his
Constituents- ^ere it possible to separate the Individuality- we
should say with a firm conviction of its truth- that It was not
^ Stephen F. Austin who indited the letter in question, but it was the
^ Arent of the people- and the obligation was as imperative on him as
Agent, to express the sentiments of those he represented, as it was
on him as &gBH*yx*axHxpKHBZxKhBXBHKt a loyal citizen to respectfully
