I do not need to tell you that Austin's colonists are a band of choice spirits, hardy working men, trained in the district schools of New England and New York--nearly every one of them a farmer or mechanic." "They were the very material liberty needed.

They have made homes." "That is the truth.

The fighters who preceded them owned nothing but their horses and their rifles.

But these men brought with them their wives and their children, their civilization, their inborn love of freedom and national faith.

They accepted the guarantee of the Spanish government, and they expected the Spanish government to keep its promises." "It did not." "It had no opportunity.