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PAPERS OF M1R,\BEAU BUONAPARTE LA.MAR
No. 222
1835 Aug. 20, COMl\IITTEE OF SAFETY AND CORRES~ON- DENCE; CALL FOR AN ELECTION .ON OCT. 5 FOR A COKSULTATION TO CONVENE IN WASII- INGTON ON OCT. 15~ 0
THE CITIZENS OF THE JURISDICTION OF COLUMBIA-to their fellow CI'l'IZENS OF ALL TEX.AS FELLOW CITIZENS: The undersigned have been elected by the people of the jurisdiction of Columbia, a Committee of Safety and Correspondence, and have been instructed to address you for the purpose of obtaining your co- operation in endeavoring to produce order, confidence, and govern~ ment, out of the present deplorable ehaos and anarchy. It is unfor• tunately too true that Centralism with the rapidity of magic, has succeeded our late confederated form of government. The Constitu- tions which we have sworn to support are thereby trampled under foot. Our governor is in captivity and our legislature dispersed by the bayonets of the soldiery- in short we occupy the unenviable attitnde of a people, who have not a shadow of legitimate government. The loss of all confidence at home, and abroad, is, and will continue to be the consequence of this state of thin:?s. Immigration will entirely cease. 'rhe law of the strongest ·will be the only law that will prevail and nothing but doubt confusion and violence will overshadow the land. After the most grave, and mature deliberation the people of this juris- diction have conceived that a Consultation of all Texas through her representatives is the only devised or devisable mode of reJ11edying tbe above recited evils & have instructed us to call upon you to unite in bringing about such Consultation as speedily as possible, Some per- sons object to a Gen 'l Consultation on the ground that it is unconsti- i ional admitting it unconstitutional we would ask if the constitution thorized the- consultations that formed the plans of Jalapa and Vera uz by which Bustamente'and Santa Anna worked out their eleva- ns; or if it authorized the late consultations of the city of Toluca of the htmdred other towns which have declared in favor of Cen- lism: A Consultation is more ind.ispensible to us than to any other pq-tion of the Republic, for since the imprisonment of our governor, t~\ dispersion of our legislature, & the adoption of Centralism we have notnstitutional organ through which to speak. It is too evident to ad ·t of argument that the state of which 'rexas is a part being recog- niz as one of the original contracting parties on forming the con- stit tiQn we are not bound by any change of government or infraction of e constitution until our assent is obtained. How is that assent to b arrived at1 We contend only by general Consultation the con- "T'
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