. American history:. n carry onward to the shores ofthe Pacific, the blessings of civil and religious freedom, under the mild andpeaceable influences of republican institutions, or whether the [ shall continue to rule in the land which they have polluted, in their do-mestic quarrels, with scenes of violence and blood, and over which the intole-rance of spiritual despotism has so long exerted its blighting influence, is aproblem which the Mexican people alone can solve. If they will be unitedunder a government of their own choice; if they will foster learning and thearts; cult
. American history:. n carry onward to the shores ofthe Pacific, the blessings of civil and religious freedom, under the mild andpeaceable influences of republican institutions, or whether the [ shall continue to rule in the land which they have polluted, in their do-mestic quarrels, with scenes of violence and blood, and over which the intole-rance of spiritual despotism has so long exerted its blighting influence, is aproblem which the Mexican people alone can solve. If they will be unitedunder a government of their own choice; if they will foster learning and thearts; cultivate good morals, and the hifoh/dnce of their religion; theymay yet become a respected, a great, a powerful, and a happy nation ; but if do-mestic discord and civil Avars, fomented by ambitious military chieftains, shallmuch longer prevail, the nation will be broken into fragments, or her territoryseized upon by some more powerful, because more united, more liberal, moreintelligent, and more virtuous PART III. HISTORY OF I. TEXAS* AS A PART OF MEXICO, WHILE UNDER THESPANISH DOMINION. [1521 TO 1821.] 1. Before the formation of European settlements in , that country was the occasional resort, rather than , situationthe abode, of wandering Indian tribes, who had no fixed ofxexwibe- o J0V6 tllGjOT- habitations, and who subsisted chiefly by huhtin and pre- waiionof , , ,. T •! 1 1 /i 1 1 European set- datory warfare. Liice the modern Lomanches,- they tiementswere a wild, unsocial race, greatly inferior to the agricul- ^ (ScTnoibtural Mexicans of the central provinces, who were sub- i ^is.)dued by Cortez. 2. The establishment of the Spanish power upon the 2. Tardy oc-ruins of the kingdom of Montezuma was not followed im- t/m countrymediately by even the nominal occupation of the whole embraced in modern Mexico. More than a cen- * Tho territory claimed by Texas, according to a boundary act passed Dec. 19th, 1836, ox-tends f
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