Letters have been received by a gentleman in this place from
persons high in office and in the confidence of the nation. Their letters
express the most friendly and natural disposition towards this and
all other colonies or settlements in Texas that have been legally
established. Great solicitude is manifested in these letters for the
prosperity of this country, and for its advancement. They say in
positive terms, that none of the rumors which agitated public
opinion as to Texas last spring had their origin from this colony; neither
has there ever been any unfavorable impression against it. These
rumors, they say, originated from a great mass of newspaper and
other publications in the U. S of the north—stating among
other things, that swarms of adventurers and fugitives from justice,
who could remain no longer in their country, were about to overrun
and occupy Texas. Such an event would have been ruinous to the
tranquility and prosperity of this country, and therefore demanded
the prompt attention of the government.
It must be confessed that publications similar to that by "A
revolutionary officer," and many others which contain nothing but base
and infamous slanders were well calculated to ruin us, both in
Mexico and in foreign countries. There is cause to suspect that one
of the great objects of these slanderous scribblers was to stop the
emigration from the U. S. of the north, or from other foreign
countries to Texas. . . . They appear to have acted on the
principle to make Texas a part of the U. S. of the North, or to keep it
down and consign it for years to the wilderness and the occupancy
of the Indians by damning its reputation so that no Honest, wealthy
or civilized man, would remove to it. . . .
We have in former numbers of the Gazette stated that the cause,
and the sole cause, of any and all the little bickerings and confusion
that may have existed in Texas, since 1821, have proceded from
the want of a proper organization of the local government, and
especially of the judiciary. In this respect a change is necessary,
and is daily becoming more so. It has become a matter of serious
doubt whether Texas will ever rise or prosper, so long as it is united
with Coahuila. The question of separating, with the view of
forming a territorial government, as a territory of this nation, is
beginning to occupy much of the public attention. This is a serious
question, and merits the most calm and mature reflection.