Excerpt from History of Texas: From Its Discovery and Settlement, With a Description of Its Principal Cities and Countries, and the Agricultural, Mineral, and Material Resources of the StateAnd a prostituted press is almost as powerful for evil in making the worse appear the better side, as the virtuous press is in the defence of truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.