Mexican troops, in conse- quence of one of those political revolutions with which the Repubhc had been frequently afflicted since its independence. In this state of things, fresh emigrants found no difficulty in entering the territory with their slaves. The colonists, however, experienced an obstacle to then- views in their union with Coahuila, in as much as their repre- sentatives were in a minority in the joint Legislature.
The first step, therefore, to independence, was the disso- lution of the connection between the two provinces. For this purpose, the colonists in 1833 organized themselves into a distinct and separate State. This organization was in direct and palpable violation of existing laws. The Mexican Congress refused to recognize the separate State of Texas. A small body of troops was sent into the in- surgent territority, anS driven out. The standard of re- bellion was raised. Texan agents traversed the United States, addressing public meetings, enlisting troops, and despatching military supplies to the revolted province. On the 2d March, 1836, the insurgents issued their de- claration of independence,! and fifteen days after adopted a Constitution establishing perpetual slavery.
- After the Texan revolution, an alderman of the New York Corporation introduced a resolution, overflowing with patriotism, and calling upon Congress to acknowledge the independence of Texas. The surprise occasioned by this extraordinary attempt in a civic body to influence the foreign relations of the national government, was dissipated by th# discovery, that the mover of the resolution was secretary to one of the Texan land companies t Of the fifty -Sevan signers to this declaration, fifty were emigrants from the slave Stales, and only three Mexicans by birth, and these, it is said, largely interested "in Texan land specu- lations.