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CHAP. VI.] SEPARATION FROM COAHUILA.
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The Bustamente administration, pressed by Santa
Anna and the Constitutionalists, was unable to spare
either money or men from the exigencies of civil war.
The calamities of the settlers were farther increased
by the ravages of the cholera, which swept off many
valuable members of the struggling community.
Among the victims of this terrible disease was John
Austin, with his aged father, who had travelled from
his distant home to witness the prosperity of his
fugitive son.
A strong conviction was now impressed uponi
many of the Anglo-Americans, that without the possession
of full and independent powers of local
administration, their social progress must be grievously
retarded, and their rights exposed to constant
invasion from contending factions and their ambitious
chiefs. Under this persuasion, a Convention
of the people was summoned to meet at San Felipe
de Austin, where it assembled in October, 1832, for
the purpose of framing a memorial to the Supreme
Government, for the repeal of the invidious law of
the 6th of April, 1830, and for the separation of
Texas from Coahuila.
It was barely possible that, by conferring an
independent State Legislature upon Texas, the
Mexican government might have retained it as a
member of the National Federation, but it must
have been perfectly obvious to all who had an accurate
idea of Anglo-American character and training,
that, with the growing power of the colonists, would
arise an irrepressible impatience of the loose and
anarchical rule which Mexico inherited from her
European parent. The local administration was
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/21/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.