peace she is willing to have a dictator in Santa Anna."

"If Mexicans want a dictator let them bow down to Santa Anna!

But do you think the twenty thousand free-born Americans in

Texas are going to have a dictator? They will have the

constitution of eighteen twenty-four--or they will have

independence, and make their own constitution! Yes, sir!"

"You know the men for whom you speak?"

"I have been up and down among them for two years. Just after