More recently I've had newcomer
out-of-staters moaning about how
Texas was stolen and the States
sent an army in and how the settlers
just stole whatever they wanted.
I always have to repeat about how
the settlers in Austin's colony had
to make an application and be vetted
and approved and agree to become
a loyal mexican citizen and convert
to catholicism, and learn spanish and
agree to develop their allotment toward
agriculture and productivity and agree
to the laws of mexico, and other
rules, etc.
Then AFTER THEY PAID for their
allotted lands they were allowed to
settle and develop it.
There's some misconception that
a bunch of unruly whites crossed the
river into Texas and parked their wagon
wherever they felt like it and built
a cabin and squatted.
Only after the mexican government had
broken the constitution of 1824, and
Stephen Austin had traveled to mexico
to plead his case and was imprisoned
and tortured did revolution start fomenting.
All of this stolen lands business needs
to be disputed whenever you hear it
