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and harmony and we must all go together, unanimoU$ly, in favor of inde- pendence. Send this to to Perry and Grayson-_ Love to the ladies. Yours-S. F. A. Jan. 17. I have just heard that there was a mob at San Felipe headed by Mosely Baker- Such a rumor has injured us here- What has that man to do with Texas, or what claims has he to confidence that he should have influence to raise a mob. Shame to Texas that such things should be- God poured upon Texas his most bitter wrath, when he suf- fered the last Monclova Legislature (of most in.famous memory) to meet at all. Years will not relieve Texas from the evils produced by that legis- lature-this mob I fear is a paragraph in the long chapter of evils which the acts of that legislature has entailed on Texas. [Addressed: J Mr. Thos. F. McKinny Quintana Mouth of Brazos Texas
AUSTIN TO D. C. BARRETT
Copy of a Letter to Col. D. C. Barrett.
New Orleans, Jan. 17, 1836.
DEAR Srn, Texas stands high all over this country. We have effected a loan for two hundred thousand dollars and expect to procure another for 40 or 50,000. The enclosed contract contains the terms of the first loan, it will no doubt be ratified by the Convention as stipulated. The credit and pros- pects of the country will be totally ruined if it is not. The last news from Vera Cruz and Tampico is, that the Federal Party had united with Santa Anna against Texas. This leaves us hut one course, which is an absolute Declaration of Independence. Such a measure is expected and called for by the people of the United States, from one end of this union to the other. We could not have obtained the loan here except on the firm belief by the lenders that a Declaration of Independence would he made in March next by the Convention. The negotiation that is now pending for another loan has been embar- rassed by a rumor that there has been a mob at San Felipe to destroy the Government, and restore the old state of things under Coahuila and Texas. I do not believe there _has been any such thing. Texas must be united and act together and in harmony and never recede one inch. It may perhaps be necessary to stop and rest a while on the way, h_ut never to retrace our
1 From a newspaper clippin~.
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