they liked the country so well, they determined to stay there.
If I remember rightly the old Britons had to let them do so."

"It is an old political situation. 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. 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."