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warding them as Ordered. Doctr Hoxey having met Persons who discour- aged the Project turnd his course and went above to en.deavor to Raise a Company of Volunteers. Mr Borden has concluded that he will try to gti some person capable to Go below and Carry the Canon on trucks. If Large wheels, cannot be had, and probably Mr Borden will Go himself If Pettus does not Return today {he being absent) Mr Borden thinks he can take the canon there in two weeks, I will write you the progress by the next opportunity. R. R. ROYALL N B you must know it will take more than 2 weeks to Get the Cannon to you We Recd a letter from Mr McKinney, at Quintana offering every facility in his Power and Stating that the San Felipe was in sight with Arms, amunition and Provisions R R R
AUSTIN TO PERMANENT COUNCIL
Camp Salado Oct 25. 1835 I am fixed here during the war my health is very bad-my spirits good -the members return to hold the consultation- If there has been too much precipitation heretofore, it ought to be a lesson to avoid that error in future--, The inclosed is a memorandum of the full extent to which I think the consultation ought to go--any thing beyond this, like forming a new constitution etc. would do harm and probably produce a great con- fusion-the consultation ought to do as little as can be gotten along with, at present This is my opinion I wish you to show the inclosed memorandum to Zavala and this note-- S. F. AUSTIN [Rubric]
[MEMORANDUM]
I.•t A Declaration confirming the pronouncements made by the people at their Municipal Meetings to sustain the Federal Constitution of 1824 and the Federal system which the Army of Texas are now defending- 2. d To declare Texas a State of the Mexican Federation, in consequence of the dissolution of the Constitutional Government of Coahuila and Texas, by Military intervention- 3. r d Declare that a provisional local Government be organized for the State of Texas, under the Constitutional Law of 7 May 1824 and appoint a provisional Governor and Lieut. Governor 1Papen, of the Consultation, Texas State Library. For the action of the consultation in reaponse to this memorandum see "Declaration of Causes for taking up Arms against Mexico,"· by the editor, in Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, xv, 173-185.
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