Excerpt from The Fall of Bexar: A Texian TaleBut while all this glorious realization of the most sanguine dreams of the colonists, was adding increased strength to enterprise, the uncurbed ambition of the Mexican chief, that had succumbed to temporary restraint by the hand of policy, began to grow eager for an exercise of its strength, and the patriot Santa Anna looked with hope and expectation upon the imperial purple that fell from Iturbide the usurper. By degrees he changed his cabinet, drew tighter the reins of government, abridged the sufi'rages of the dependent republics, and began the Operations of a scheme to nullify their representative privileges, and consolidate the legislative power into sovereign central ism. The people of Texas were the first to observe this increasing abridgment of their liberties, for the other provinces were peopled with a' population who had never tasted the sweets ofx-settled and undisturbed freedom.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.