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49S
A PPEND I X.-N .V.
TIlE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
MADE BY THE
DELEGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS,
IN
GENERAL CONVENTION, AT WASHINGTON,
ON MARCH 2, 1S36.
;V7 liEN a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty,
and property of the People, fiom whom its legitimate powers
are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it
was instituted ; and so far from being a guarantee for their
inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument
in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression-When the
Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they
have sworn to support, no longer has a sutbstantial existence,
and the whole nature of their government has been
forcibly changed, without their consent, fiom a restricted
Federative Republic, composed of Sovereign States, to a consoli(lated
central military despotism, in which every interest
is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood,
)both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready
minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrantsWheni,
long after tlle spirit of the Constitution has departed,
moderation is at length so far lost by those in
power, that even tlhe semblance of freedoml is removed, and
tilie ()rnms themselves of the Constitution discontinued, and
so far ffrom their petitions and remonstrances being regarded,
thle agents who bear them are tllrown into dungeons, and
mnercenary armies sent fortIl to enforce a new government
uipon thlemr at the point of tlie bayonetW\hen,
in co(n:equlence of' s,uch acts of' malfeasance and
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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/m1/504/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.