I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
More Quotes from William H. Wharton:
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.William H. Wharton
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
William H. Wharton
When the people of the United States commenced their war for independence against Great Britain, the friends of Britain charged them with ingratitude.
William H. Wharton
Yes the door of emigration to Texas was closed upon the only sister republic worthy of the name which Mexico could boast of in this new world.
William H. Wharton
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
William H. Wharton
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