Kentucky Gazette

TEXAS—AGAIN.

Nothing satisfactory has yet reached us from the expedition against Texas; but we understand that it is progressing towards the Sabine, which is to be the resting place, until matters are ripe for a general revolt in the province.-- Their plan, we understand, is to drive out the small number of royalists who yet remain there, and immediately organize a form of government similar to our own. When this is accomplished, their endeavors are to be directed in such a manner as to invite a rapid and an immediate emigration from the United States. Lands it is said will be given, and facilities afforded to such as are desirous of becoming citizens of the newly created republic of Texas. By holding out such inducements they are led to suppose that in a short time the American weight of population will predominate, or in other words they will be able to make the government purely American, as well in character as in administration. This sounds well; but whilst we present to the public all the fond hopes of the revolutionists, common honesty compels us to acknowledge that there are many bars to the enterprise. Texas is undoubtedly a rich and fertile tract of country, wide in extent, and ample in resources; but from the desultory and savage warfare which has desolated the land, that vast extent presents almost literally a vast and noiseless desert, the inhabitants have been either murdered or driven farther in the interior or to seek a precarious shelter from the barbarity of the Spaniards: the same hand that desolated the field and moistened it with the blood of the native, at the same moment dried up every channel of resource, and time and labor can alone replenish them. What may be the present resources of the party, we know not, but it is very certain that the moment they rendezvous upon the Sabine, the Spaniards will drive every horse, mule, and every head of cattle over the Rio Grande, and unless they have been provident enough to lay in sufficient stores to supply them until something effective be done; want, misery, and fatigue, must attend them, whithersoever they turn. This we conceive to be an honest exposition of the predicament in which they now stand. In making this statement, we do not wish to discourage adventurers from the pursuit (for in truth, we wish all success may attend it) but at the same time, as the enterprize has excited much general interest we do not wish to delude, by throwing a gloss upon their prospects and operations which they ought not to bear. Our object is simply to inform. And here we cannot avoid noticing some harsh and unadvised remarks which have appeared in the Orleans Gazette, upon this subject. The editor has thought fit to stigmatize the enterprize as merely fitted out for the purpose of 'making a predatory incursion upon the province of Texas' and appears disposed to reprobate the measure in the most unqualified terms. Should that gentleman entertain any legitimate predilections, we are happy to differ from him. We have some little knowledge of Spanish clemency and Spanish humanity, and we are willing that any one who chooses, may experience their full effects. But we do not blame a suffering people for struggling against their oppressors, even unto death ; and we cannot, nor will not, impugn the motives of those who step forth gallantly to aid them. We will at any rate see and hear, before we venture to judge, and take the liberty of advising the same course to the editor of the Orleans Gazette.-Natchez Press.