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THE .AUSTIN PAPERS
Mexicans are determined to be free. If they succeed, Texas will participate as a state in conformity with the declaration of 7 Novr·-if they fail, Texas can at any time resort to her natural rights. There are ~bout 200 volunteers here, and probably wHI be a 1000 or more in a month. What is to be done with them? They must and ought to be provided for and employed- I think that head quarters should be fixed at Goliad, and that a federal auxiliary army should be collected there, and offered to the federal party should it be needed by them. This will be in conformity with our own offers in the 2.d article of the declaration of 7 Novr., and it will also place Texas, on a footing as to the federal party that will justify the former in expecting remuneration from the latter for what she spends in aid of the federal cause by furnishing auxiliary /orces I write this letter as a citizen of Texas, and not as a commissioner- I give my opinions frankly and refer you to Col Fannin for a further ex- planation'of them, I believe that this meritorious officer and myself do not differ materially on these subjec3s. S. F. AUSTIN [Rubric] To· the Provisional Government -of Texas [Endorsed: J Read and ordered ·to be filed Jan. 2 th • 1836
ANSON JONES TO J. F. PERRY
[Brazoria, December 24, 1835. See Calendar.]
AusTIN TO RoY .ALL
Quintana, December 25, 1835.
[R. R. ROYALL] DEAR SIR: The affairs of Texas are more entangled than I suspected they were. While the real friends of the country have been laboring in good faith for the general good of all, a few men, an unprincipled party, have clanned together to get possession of the public affairs to promote their own aims of ambition and personal aggran,dizement. There has been much low intrigue, and amongst others I have been deceived and treated with bad faith. My whole thoughts and soul were devoted to the common cause of Texas, and I could not suffer even my suspicions to descend so low as to suppose that there were individuals who could be influenced by any other m9tives than purely patriotic ones. I o~ght to have known better, but I was unwilling to believe that so much bad faith and political dis- honesty and low intrigues existed as I am now compelled to believe has been and ~o doubt will continue to be practiced by Wharton and a few others.
1 From Brown, History of Texas, I, 466-468.
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