Lynchburg Virginian

TEXAS.

A meeting has been held in New Orleans, said to have been crowded to overflowing, for the purpose of devising means to aid the Texans in resisting the efforts of Santa Anna, the Mexican Dictator, to reduce them to submission. About $1000 were subscribed on the spot, and a large number of volunteers enrolled themselves to march forthwith to the seat of action. We do not concur with the National Intelligencer in the opinion it expresses as to the propriety of these measures. We cannot see why American citizens may not voluntarily go to the relief of their brethren in Texas, whose rights have been violated and whose liberties are about to be trampled under foot by a Military Despot, who inveigled them into their present condition by tempting offers, with as much propriety as that British and French soldiers shall be authorized by their respective governments to enter Spain in squadrons, to do battle in behalf of one of two contending factions, the success of either of which is a matter of but little moment, except to the parties immediately interested. When the South Americans, the Greeks and the Poles were struggling for their independence, if we mistake not, the Intelligencer was not backward in its appeals to the public sympathy, in behalf of the oppressed. Why should it feel less acutely for the Texans, seeing that they are the injured party, and, if not aided by their American friends, that that injury will be consummated in their ruin?