That Province had been settled chiefly by emigrants from the Southern and Southwestern States.

Many of them had taken their slaves with them.

But the Mexican Government, to their enduring honor be it said, abolished slavery throughout that Republic.

The ostensible object of the Texian insurrection was to resist certain schemes of usurpation alleged against Santa Anna, at that time President of Mexico.

At the present day, however, after having witnessed the entire progress and consummation of the scheme, it is abundantly evident, that from the beginning there was a deliberate and well-digested plan to re-establish slavery in Texas--annex that province to the United States--and thus immensely increase the slave territory and influence in the Union.
At the first blast of the Texian bugle, thousands of volunteers from the slaveholding States rushed to the standard of "the lone star." Agents were sent to the United States to create an interest in behalf of Texas--the most inflammatory appeals were made to the people of the Union--and armed bodies of American citizens were openly formed in the South, and transported without concealment to the seat of the insurrection.