 | Benjamin Lundy - History - 1836 - 72 pages
...reader to one more important specification, which they dwell on with particular emphasis, viz : — that "the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent," (meaning without the consent of the Mexican people at large); and that their "rulers" have established... | |
 | John Milton Niles - Mexico - 1837 - 614 pages
...their oppression. When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence,...but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.... | |
 | Texas - Session laws - 1838 - 1142 pages
...their oppression. When the federal republican constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence,...central military despotism, in which every interest i> disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternaJ enemies of civil liberty,... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 562 pages
...their oppression — When the Federal Republican Constitution oftheircountry, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence,...but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants... | |
 | William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 574 pages
...their oppression — When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence,...but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - Texas - 1841 - 202 pages
...In their " unanimous declaration of independence," the Texans have stated against the Mexicans that "the whole nature of their government has been forcibly...but that of the army and the PRIESTHOOD; both the eternal ENEMIES or CIVIL LIBERTY, the ever ready MINIONS OF POWER, and the usual INSTRUMENTS OF TYRANTS."... | |
 | N. Doran Maillard - Texas - 1842 - 544 pages
...their oppression ; — when the federal republican constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence,...but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants;... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1844 - 544 pages
...the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, has no longer a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their...been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restrictive Federative Republic, composed of sovereign States, to a consolidated, central, and military... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, has no longer a substantial existence, nnd the whole nature of their Government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restrictive Federative Republic, composed of sovereign States, to a consolidated, central, and military... | |
 | Richard Smith Coxe - Mexico - 1846 - 130 pages
...the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they had sworn to support, has no longer a substantial existence ; and the whole nature of...been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restrictive federative republic, composed of sovereign States, to a consolidated, central, and military... | |
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Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign... 
