Excerpt from The University of Texas Record, Vol. 3: June, 1901 For the better part of. A century the efforts of the Spanish gov ernment to colonize Texas by Spaniards or Mexicans had failed of practical success. When the young Republic of Mexico, fresh from helds of victorious contest for independence, opened its por tals to foreign emigration of non - Spanish descent, this measure brought to Texas, then a political division of Mexico, emigrants from all parts of the United States on the North and, to a limited extent from England and Germany. Thus, for the first time in the history of this continent, there entered into spanish-america in large numbers and as citizens thereof that Virile race of men before which centuries ago the ancient renown and disciplined valor of Roman legions broke in irretrievable defeat, and which from its earliest appearances in the arena of history asserted and practiced, even in the primeval forest of Germany, the great right of sclf - government as the basic principle of all civil and political institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.