severe, and that they could no longer submit without relinquishing forever the glorious appellation of freemen. They struck, and struck with the potent arm of _liberty_. They conquered and drove the enemy from their soil. They wish not to wage a war of cupidity and conquest. They only ask to be permitted to govern the territory they occupy after the republican mode of their fathers. If this, their reasonable demand, is not conceded, they will carry the war into the enemy's country, and force the tyrant (as they have the power to do,) to acknowledge the independence of Texas within the very walls of his capital. After so many descriptions it is useless to discuss the capability of Texas to figure as an independent government. Suffice it to say, that it is larger than France, England, Scotland and Ireland united--of more general fertility, and susceptible of a greater and denser population. CURTIUS.