PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR 475 upon your pillow, with the voice of lamentation in your ears 1 Are you insensible to noble deeds- dead to the love of fame; too frigid for and too timid for danger! No. Such is not the character of Texans. The history of the past will not justify the thought. No draft has ever been dishonored which your country or humanity has drawn upon your chivalry and virtue; and the pomptness with which ev,ery appeal has heretofore be.en responded to, is an ample guarantee that the present one, in behalf of a bleeding people, will not be neglected and despised. Your aid, howe,ver, to be effectual, must be speedily received. The Government is doing all which its limited means can accomplish, for the permanent protection of its entire frontier; but time is necessary to perfect its plans; and time is bringing that destruction which it is our object to avert. The emergency is pressing. Delay is death. Then let the chivalry of Texas shew itself. Three hundred volunteers are wanted in the field immediately- me11 who are not only ready to fight, but who are willing to encounter toil, fatigue and privations, and whose energy and public devotion will supply the deficiencies resulting from the· present condition of our public finances. The requisitions are expected to be met by those counties which have no fronti~r of their own to protect. To carry out this plan o:i defence, it will be necessary for the county of Harrisburg to furnish two companies; the county of Brazoria, one; the counties of Mata- gorda and Colorado, one; Austin and Fort Bend, one; and the counties of Liberty and Galveston one. 'I'hese. men will be expected to yoluntee.r for Six months; and as soon as organized, the Captain of each company will report by letter, and forward a muster-roll to the ,var Department. The first five companies mentioned, will rendezvous at La Grange, in the county of Fayette, and report to Colonel Edward Burleson, as speedily as possible, who is authorised to take. command of the troops for the protection of that portion of the frontier. The Sixth company will proceed with·dispatch to the Falls of the Brazos, and occupy the Fort constructed by the Jlilarn Guards. lllirabeait B. Larnar. No. 1101 1839 Feb. 28, JESSE GRIMES, l\IO:'\'l'GOl\IERY COUNTY, [TEXAS], TO 1\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] · LAMAR, HOUSTO~, [TEXAS] A description of Thomas Boatwright, murderer of John Loyd, and a suggestion for the offer of a reward for his capture. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1102 1839 Feb. 28, THO [l\IAS] P. SI,ADE', BE~TON, rl\IISSISSIPPI], TO A[LEXANDER] G. l\IcNU'I'T, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Enclosing a transcript of the indictment of Magnus T. Rogers and Anderson Searcy. A. L. S. 1 p. Appended to no. 718; with no. 1219.
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