The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 335
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Tadeo Ortiz and the Colonization of Texas, 1822-1833 335
construction of vessels, the traffic along the coast, and commerce
of the high seas shall be protected and developed.
This same colonization project has produced another real and
beneficial result. Not only have the colonists overcome infinite
obstacles, fighting simultaneously against the elements which an
undeveloped country offers man and against the incursion of the
savages who tried to destroy them, but they have also settled spots
that, though more suitable, are more difficult to settle because of
their unhealthfulness. They have furnished to the nation a race
of active and labor-loving men who are already acclimated, and
the measures and resources whereby the government and other
empresarios, with less cost and work, may be able to settle other
interior lands of better climate and greater fertility. This colony
and that of Sabinas, the Ayses and Atoyaque-the latter without
empresarios-were formed almost at the same time and success-
fully to my knowledge. They are also supplying the country with
provisions; they have opened roads, and facilitated communication,
by furnishing the means for crossing the rivers without danger and
delay to which the traveler and the trader were previously exposed.
Finally they have constructed regular houses and established many
water mills to saw lumber, grind grain, and to remove seeds from
cotton, contributing to the progress of population and public
wealth, first by their industry, and also because they have con-
siderably developed the breeding of stock and other branches
hitherto unknown to the country.
In my opinion these establishments and their leaders are worthy
of the protection of the government; and, if, among them there
be found defects, some objectionable men who are not loyal to
the nation, and if signs of nationality be sought in vain-because
all this announces to the thoughtful Mexican that nothing of his
country exists there-let the blame rest upon the authorities and
those who have left to themselves a population composed exclu-
sively of natives of a neighboring power. To the general gov-
ernment falls the task of regulating, teaching and correcting them.
There is yet time, but let no alarming and prohibitive measures
be used. Such measures are impossible to carry out, and only
exasperate. Under the present order of things, since there are
more than 20,000 persons there, no power on earth can prevent
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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/m1/340/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.