A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ows : Total estimated popula-tion, 52,670,—consisting of 30,000 Anglo-Americans, 14,200Indians, 5000 negroes, and 3470 Mexicans. At the date of the Difficulties ofinauguration of the first president of the Republic, the whole *^^ Republiccountry and its people were in a de-plorable state of prostration and pov- -erty ; there were no stable industries ofany kind ; transportation was difificultand trade practically suspended ; thecountry was rapidly filling up with aclass of immigrants not so desirable asthe original colonists ;
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ows : Total estimated popula-tion, 52,670,—consisting of 30,000 Anglo-Americans, 14,200Indians, 5000 negroes, and 3470 Mexicans. At the date of the Difficulties ofinauguration of the first president of the Republic, the whole *^^ Republiccountry and its people were in a de-plorable state of prostration and pov- -erty ; there were no stable industries ofany kind ; transportation was difificultand trade practically suspended ; thecountry was rapidly filling up with aclass of immigrants not so desirable asthe original colonists ; while ambitiousand reckless men, released from thedangers of war and the incentive ofpatriotic devotion to the cause of free-dom, instigated many wild and adven-turous schemes. All that the infant governm-ent possessed wasa vast landed domain, valued very slightly, but sufificientlytempting to arouse the spirit of cupidity and speculation amongthe unscrupulous and the improvident. There were practicallyno schools, but one newspaper had surxived the Revolution,. Baylor University, 43^ A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. and the government itself was without a fixed habitation. Thenext ten years were filled with doubts, debts, and difficultiesinnumerable, and at times apparently insurmountable ; but theresult, wrought amid many perils and privations, culminated inthe ultimate redemption of the government from all its embar-rassments, the assured prosperity of a thrifty and increasingpopulation, and its incorporation as a stable commonwealthamong the States of the American Union. Annexation Xhc Joiut Rcsolutiou of the Congrcss of the United States for the annexation of Texas was approved March i, 1845. Inaccordance with its terms a State Constitution was framed andadopted by the Texas Convention, August 27, 1845, was sub-mitted to a vote of the people, together with the question ofannexation, in the following October, and, by a vote of 4174 forto 312 against, it was ratified b
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