After so much war and misery the country is now ready to resign all the blessings the constitution of eighteen twenty-four promised her.
For peace she is willing to have a dictator in Santa Anna." "If Mexicans want a dictator let them bow down to Santa Anna! But do you think the twenty thousand free-born Americans in Texas are going to have a dictator?
They will have the constitution of eighteen twenty-four--or they will have independence, and make their own constitution! Yes, sir!" "You know the men for whom you speak ?" "I have been up and down among them for two years.

Just after I came to Texas I was elected to the convention which sent Stephen Austin to Mexico with a statement of our wrongs.

Did we get any redress?
No, sir! And as for poor Austin, is he not in the dungeons of the Inquisition?
We have waited two years for an answer.

Great heavens Doctor, surely that is long enough!" "Was this convention a body of any influence ?" "Influence! There were men there whose names will never be forgotten.
They met in a log house; they wore buckskin and homespun; but I tell you, sir, they were debating the fate of unborn millions." "Two years since Austin went to Mexico ?" "A two years' chapter of tyranny.

In them Santa Anna has quite overthrown the republic of which we were a part.