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In the Texas Independence, when Southern newspapers began reporting that the Texas War was a conflict between White Anglo-Americans against the "Hispanic-Mongrel inferior race" and their tyrannical government. Stephen Austin, a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, defined this War as "A war of barbarism and of despotic principles, waged by the mongrel Spanish-Indian and Negro race, against civilization and the Anglo-American race".
All this is a big lie, the Mexican Tejanos had formed a rebellion side by side with the American Colonists, having as their main objective to fight against the dictatorship of Antonio López de Santa Anna. After the Revolution ended, the Norteños who had risen against Mexico City were betrayed, Southerners immigrated en masse to this newly independent country to build new slave plantations along the Coast, and the Norteños who lived there lost their possessions and were expelled from their lands. Juan Seguín, who had been elected mayor of San Antonio in Texas, was sent into exile after a mob of Southerners arrivals accused him of being a Mexican spy. He returned to that land years later after proving his innocence only to discover that Texas had become a racially segregated society, where Norteños were forced to live on land located along the Rio Grande and at that time none of them had any hope of obtaining political representation.
>"At every hour of the day and night, my countrymen ran to me for protection against the assaults or exactions of those adventurers. Sometimes, by persuasion, I prevailed on them to desist; some times, also, force had to be resorted to. How could I have done other wise? Were, not the victims my own countrymen, friends and associates? Could; I leave them defenceless, exposed to the assaults of foreigners, who, on the pretext that they were Mexicans, treated them worse than brutes." (A Foreigner in My Own Land: Juan Nepomuceno Seguin Flees Texas, 1842)
