The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 8, July 1904 - April, 1905 Page: 250
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occur. But be that accusation what it may, it will at most amount
to an error, and certainly it was one of judgment and nothing
more. Austin at least has the consolation of having been himself
the victim, and the only victim, of its consequences.
The civil war ended in Guanajuato on October 7, 1833. The
houses devoted themselves with energy to the despatch of busi-
ness, and in that month issued a decree of the greatest importance
to Texas and very satisfactory to its inhabitants. Austin did not
lose a moment in announcing this happy turn of affairs to the
ayuntarmientos and people of Texas, uttering a grand eulogy upon
the attitude of congress, recommending the greatest tranquility
and calmness, and himself remaining in Mexico to push on the
business of his mission that still remained pending.
On November 5 of the same year the most excellent president
general, Don Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna, convoked a special
assembly of ministers, at which Austin was present, to discuss the
petition of Texas to be admitted into the federation as a state.
After a frank discussion, in which Austin supported the claims of
his constituents wherever possible and firmly objected to the idea
dropped during the discussion of making Texas a territory, be-
cause such were the special and positive instructions of his con-
stituents (see No. I),1 the government decided that, while not
ready to discuss that question with a view to acting then, it was
disposed to favor, at the opportune time, the claims of Texas to
become a state; that the local administration of Texas should be
improved so far as it would depend upon the general government
to do it, by assisting the presidial companies, establishing mails
etc., and urging the government of the state of Coahuila and Texas
to provide for reforms suitable for Texas, particularly the estab-
lishment of justices of the peace, trial by jury, and other similar
things.
Austin, satisfied with the very friendly disposition of the su-
preme general government shown in favor of Texas, and content
with the remedies he had secured and the recommendations to the
government of the state of Coahuila and Texas, suspended for the
time his efforts in regard to the demand for the erection of the
latter into a state; and, on December 10, he set out with a pass-1Page 255.
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