The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 154
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
There is no doubt but that when a decisive end has been put to
divisions and to the glaring evils that certain unnatural sons
have occasioned; when internal harmony has been re-established
and amicable foreign relations have been assured by reason of the
great events that are transpiring in this part of the world as a
consequence of the French revolution which gave rise to our own,
the whole attention of the government should be fixed upon the
reforms and improvements imperiously demanded by expediency
and by its peculiar situation. These events can not fail to have
an influence, because of their connection. They will lead to a
firm social organization and the establishment of political relations
which will redound to our welfare, our aggrandizement and our
prosperity.
Each and all of the events that follow are important, influential
and significant for the New World: the voluntary and explicit
recognition of the independence of the Republic by the French
government; the alliance which this government is about to form
with that great power and with Great Britain; the friendly rela-
tions which the governments of the other nations will inevitably
establish when the principles and the fundamental points of the
Holy Alliance have disappeared; the approaching revolution in
Spain which is already invaded by the armies of the constitution-
alists who will certainly establish a regular regime and will expel
the tyrant and his family from its soil-which will probably result
in the overthrow of the Island of Cuba. The consequences of these
things will be to open a new era of glory and happiness in the
record of the great and permanent destinies of the Republic for the
year 1831. The judgment, the sagacity, and the profound policies
of your Excellency's government can not allow them to escape.
In view of this fact, the Mexican Nation, one of the most for-
tunate social bodies that man could fashion for his own happiness,
encourages its government to undertake social improvements. The
obstacles which are insuperable to the most intelligent and active
genius, and which are interposed in other regions by an undeveloped
and barren country, are not present. On the contrary it is pro-
vided with every imaginable resource. Its development is very
simple, due to its rich resources and its opportunities. It has a
mass of seven or eight million inhabitants, endowed by nature
with great genius and immense and fruitful soil, producing an in-154
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929, periodical, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101089/m1/158/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.