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On the introduction of the race who now possess it. Texas, which up to within a few years of the revolution, was only Known, even to the ?..dest statesmen of the American Continent, from the uncertain & fanciful accounts of wild adventures & ignorant savages, as the lacking places of pirates & outlaws, now engages the attention of the most civilized notions, and claims their warmest sympathies & regards.

 Agriculture blesses with abundance the plains that were desolate & unproductive, the axe rings in the forest; the towns resound with the hum of industry, where eight years ago

man had no habitation, & the e..gh? of silence & solitude was scarcely ever broken by the voice of a human being, the harbor of Galveston, which then was only known as the rendezvous of pirates, is now white with the sails & gay with the flags of Europe & America, lured hither by the lucrative commerce, awakened by the industry of the hardy possessions of the soil.

 Agriculture, arts, trade, learning & religion are steadily advancing, & show on every hand, as the evidences of their onward march, plantations, farms, & luxurient fields, bring towns & busy workshops; ports & bays white with canvass, rivers navigate by swift moving steamers, academies of learning;