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 So soon I have suppressed this insurrection.

Then wilt thou never see thy plan fulfilled, And it is best so, as thy gross injustice Were certain to react on thee as curse Whose magnitude my spirit dreads to fathom. Far better in both nature and result Would be the plan which I have in my mind.

Make proof then of thy ingenuity!

Espouse the cause of Texas with the zeal Thou hitherto hast squandered on her tyrants Enroll thee as the patriots' stoutest friend As till to-day thou wast their foremost foe; Help to restore this land to Liberty As thou till now hast labored to enslave it. And thine will be a rank and titled name For which the proudest king will envy thee, And thine will be a wealth untold and grand, Surpassing far the treasures of the. East; And thine will be a fame of ancestry Of which thy latest progeny will boast. Is that, pray, not a better plan than thine?