The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Stephen F. Austin was used to being able to speak his mind in the United States, but Mexico didn't have the same type of freedom of speech in their country.
I feel Americans today take their rights and freedoms for granted because they were born with these rights and do not appreciate the value of it.
Although in those years of Stephen F. Austin's time, freedom of speech was not like the one in the United States, today México and other Latin American countries indeed have the same freedom of speech as the democratic countries they are.
The difference is that the American people have forgotten the cost of having that freedom of speech in the United States Constitution. They do not have in mind the many wars the nation has fought and the many deceased people in those battles that fought for liberty and the freedom of speech.
