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like to have them cleaned and repaired. ~Iany of the Bayonets we have kept because they needed no repairing and we wi hcd to fix them on poles to u e in ca e we were stormed. The pade hatchet etc, are on the Teran. We wi h you to end the crew of the Teran immediately back as meo are wanting here god knows. Captain Brown i fitting the Brazo:cia for ea as fa t as he can. The officers and troops are orderly and polite and the best po sible understanding- preYails between them and the Americans ·we have advi cd lliitchelL and Chase to remove their proYisions, so that should the :Mexicans again get possession we could starve them out. \Ve need a.s i tance here very much. The few now here are at their mercy if they should attempt a recapture. Thi you know they might attempt should they lt-arn that the upper part of the colony wa oppo cd to us an<l that a istance wa coming from La Bahia, San Antonio etc. Do inform u of your wi hes a often a practicable and if "'rong in any of our teps we will gladly retrace them as soon as we learn they meet the disapprobation of the committee Yours etc·
\Vm Brown Asa Mitchell Wm. H. Wharton
4th. July. [Addressed]
[Endorsed]
W. II. Wharton
To the Standing Committee At Brazoria
P. S.
By l\fr. l\Iills this moment arrived I have receh'ed several letters from San Felipe, breathing all the same toriJi.sh pirit and hewing that we have as much opposition to expect from our own country men as from the l\Iexicans, \Ve wait orders and information from you -and hope to get them immediately. Those of u here will never surrender the fort with life, or if we do, the cannon will be spiked and without a round of ammunition. Do let us hear from you immediately and give us all the a sistanee you can. Physical force we have none and all now entirely depending en the moral effect of our prudence and good coudnct. I wish I could be relieved from here if compatible with the public good-not without, I thiuk I could g-o to , an Felipe and reason ome of those fellows into en e and cowhide th ballance into rags. W. H. Wharton ·
No. 154
1832 .July G, TT. S:'.lTTII TOG. B. fcKil\STRY A 'D W. T. AUSTIN
Bell 6th. July 1 32 ~Tessrs. 0. B. .:'II Kinstry aud William T An. tin Gcntlemt>n,
·wC' have on deliberation ndclrcs·C'd n note to ~rr. Anthony to cJctain the troop!! below, al Brazoria until fm ther onlc1·:-;. You will plense m;. ist him if necC'. sary to effect that ohjC'ct-Al. o k:ec-p
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