Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y two orthree small military establishments, nearwhich a few Spaniards had settled. In1807, Pike made it known that thiscountry was distinguished by fertilityof soil. From that time many citizensof the United States wished to formsettlements in Texas, but the policy ofthe Spanish court was not favorable totheir designs. When Mexico obtainedher independence, the government ofthe republic adopted a liberal system ofcolonization, inviting (in 18:34) nativesand foreigners to settle within the terri-tories of the republic, under very advan-tageous conditions. The first settlementwas made by Colonel Austin, of Mis-souri, in his grant on the Rio Brazos,and called San Felipe de Austin. Aboutthis time the stream of emigration fromthe United Stales turned toward Texas.In 1833, the people of Texas formedfor themselves a separate constitution,and insisted on a separation of theircountry from the state of Coahuila, towhich it was united by a decree of tlupMexican government. This being re- I ( i n
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454 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. fused, and a central government estab-1 through the crooked channel studded onlisiod in Mexico, the Texaiis took u() both sides with shoals and breakers, thearms in 1835, in defence of their rights gloomy pelicans saluting you on everyill).I Iil)erties, and the republican priuci- side, the approach is both difficult andpies uf t!u federal constituti(ni of Mex- dangerous. The low, level, and sandy,ico o! 18:24. The ivw Mexican soldiers but grass-covered island of Galveston,statioia-d at Bexar were compelled to on which the city is situated, is aboutk.tvo the country in December, 1835, thirty miles long, and has on it but threeafier sustaining considerable loss in a small groups of native trees—though ofliiiitle with the Te\ans. The piesident fruit-trees there are plenty in the city,of the Mexican rej)ublic, Santa Anna, planted by the inhabitants. It is lolera-hovvever, marched into Texas at the l)ly fertile, and, owing principally to the\ic:u\ (

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