The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925 Page: 103
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Descriptions of Texas by Stephen P. Austin
dent to all new countries are almost unknown, and impartial men
will say that no new settlement on any frontier of the United
States can boast of more good order, morality, and subordination
to the laws than Austin's colony. It has been a rule with Colonel
Austin from the beginning to receive none but good men and to
drive away bad ones, and he will now receive none who do not
present evidence of good character from the local authorities of
the place where they remove from.
Men of large families and small or no capital cannot do bet-
ter than to emigrate to this country. Austin is authorized to
settle a large number of families, and his well known and estab-
lished character with the Mexican government-his experiences
in colonization, and his uniform devotion to the interest of the
settlers, to the accommodation of honest poor men, and to the
general prosperity of the country probably qualifies him as well
to succeed as any other now engaged in enterprises of this kind.
He was the first who attempted to colonize in Texas, he opened
the way, and has devoted seven years of the prime of his life to
this object, his present poverty as to monied capital or disposable
means affords an unquestionable and honorable proof that he has
been influenced more by the general good and prosperity of the
settlers than by views of individual profit, for had the reverse of
this been his object, he has had abundant opportunities of specu-
lating, but he could not embrace them without neglecting what
he deemed to be his duty to his settlers, and therefore he did not.
The success of Austin's colony in the wilderness, of Texas,
under the disadvantages and difficulties that opposed such an
enterprise, affords a most striking and highly honorable example
of North American enterprise, perseverance and fortitude, and it
has paved the way for the settlement of the whole of this fine
and heretofore uninhabited country.
1831
Emigration to Texas from Europe
The encouragement given by the Mexican government and by the
state of Coahuila and Texas to emigrants to Texas from Europe
merits the popular attention of those who have a desire to bet-
ter their fortunes by a removal to America. It is believed that103
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