"[S]how plainly the true intentions of the treacherous colonists and of their abettors, who came from parts of the United States of the North."
I'm surprised that quoting that didn't get some mention. Most Texans don't like it when folks point out how Houston and Co. basically tricked the Mexican government into letting them into East Texas.
For those unfamiliar with the history, what happened was that Sam Houston had made an agreement with the Mexican governor of Texas that if he and his followers would renounce their US citizenship and swear allegiance to Mexico, convert to Catholicism, use Spanish as their main language, and abandon slavery, they would be allowed to colonize the otherwise uninhabited (by Mexicans, that is) northern and eastern parts of the region. Convinced that Houston had dealt with them in good faith, the Mexican officials basically handed the land over to them and returned to the capitol (no one in Mexico wanted to live in Texas, which is why the made the deal in the first place; they needed a local population who could protect them from the US. Oh, the irony...).
The deal having been made, Houston then gathered up imigrants from the US on the promise that they wouldn't have tp do those things, and that they would be preparing Texas for an inevitable purchase by the US.
Well, this went on for about a decade, but eventually the Mexican officials got wind of this. When they demanded that Houston stand by his agreement, the new Texans threw the Mexican officials out and raised an army to keep the Mexican rmy from evicting them. The rest is history.
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