[Transcript of an essay by Stephen F. Austin concerning the law of April 6, 1830, [May 18, 1830?]] Page: 4 of 7
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themselves, their wives and children for the hardships and suf-
ferings of their early settlement, and also to repay the ;overn-
mfnt more than thousand fold for the previlige of settli g in Tex-
as, and of Baking wild lands valuable, that before were valulcss—
On what grounds was such a hope *a this founded? 13 was
founded on te& coloniza ion laws, on &he general, liberal and broad
invitation given in those laws to the whole world to cone and set*
t3^e in Texas-- on the faith of the Gov**, that such an invitation
would not be thus given merely to draw a few unsuspicious Emigrants
to this wilderness an^ppw from their friends nd relations, and
in fa t from the balance of the civilized worldy *Nhen years of
struggling through difficulties had just be& n to relative their
hopes-* Could the first emigrants have su/poccd that they would have
b(en deprived of the privilege of settling by their sides a son or
daughter, anjaged father or widowed mother, a brother or sister, an
old and Affectionate friend^ or neighbor of other^ays and/Stf other
countries, because they did not emigrate on tht* or on that partic-
ular day? Could they have supposed that the general invitation of
the colonization laws were mere time serving and temporary exped-
ients which were to bo changed without any apparent reason and with-
out any violation of duty on the part% of the first emigrants, is
it reasonable to suppose that they would have labored as they have
done, suffered what they ijave suffered, to bring forward this coun-
try, and give value character, rnd credit to it? No— they built
their hopes on the permanency o^the oo&onizi$$RH system, o& the
faith of the government pledged in their colonization laws, fran-
on the broad laws of phPS-am-Ropy and republican *
dom^which they supposed had been adoptod.as the foundation on which
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[Transcript of an essay by Stephen F. Austin concerning the law of April 6, 1830, [May 18, 1830?]], text, 1830-05-18?; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216668/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.