You can go back to Genesis and find Pharaoh arguing about the Jews in the same manner." "What happened after this forcible expulsion of the American element from Texas ?" "Mexican independence was for a time abandoned, and the Spanish viceroys were more tyrannical than ever.

But Americans still came, though they pursued different tactics.

They bought land and settled on the great rivers.

In eighteen twenty-one, Austin, with the permission of the Spanish viceroy in Mexico, introduced three hundred families." "That was a step in the right direction; but I am astonished the viceroy sanctioned it." "Apodoca, who was then viceroy, was a Spaniard of the proudest type.
He had very much the same contempt for the Mexicans that an old English viceroy in New York had for the colonists he was sent to govern.

I dare say any of them would have permitted three hundred German families to settle in some part of British America, as far from New York as Texas is from Mexico.