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PAPERS OF °MIRAllEAU BuONAPARTE LAMAR
The call fellow-citizens of Texas, is upon you,-to rally forthwith to the aid of'your countrymen, without one momen~'s dela~, armed and - equipped for battle· and never cease your exertions, while one stone can be found upon :in.other, or a Mexican soldier left to imprint with his footstep_ the soil of Texas. In great haste Your friend and fellow-citizen, HEr RY SMITH. Gover'fWr. San Felipe de A11stin, Dec. 9, 1835. [Endorsed] Circular Deer. 1835. To. 268 18.'Ui nee. JO. 'J'EXAS. C-l'F.NV.R.AJJ CO 1TCTL. SAiJ FELIPE DE STIN, [TEXAS] 97 Resolntion irivitin~ General 1 f€xia and his command to march via Golifid to BPxar to "co-opel'ate with the 'volunteer army of the People.' " Copy. 1 p. To. 269 .,-; I 183.5 D <'<'. 12. SAM JTOl S'l'Oi . HB DOUART'RRS, WARHI G- TO , TEXAS 08 "Proclamation of ~am Houston. commander-in-chief of the Army o! Texas," <'arnna for 5000 volunteers. , No. 270 1835 Dec. 14 J. FORBES TO J. W. ROBT SON, [SAN FELIPE] Nacogdoches Deer 14 [ 1] 1835 To his Excellency J W Robinson, Lieut Go~ & Prest. of Council Sir On last last [sic] Tuesday I had the honor of re- ceiving from your Excellency a Communication informing me, that the Legislative Council of Texas had been pleased to appoint me to the Office of First Ju<lae of the Jurisdiction of Nacogdoches- It is with extreme diffidence that I enter-upon the duties of an "'Printed in the Jo,urnal of the Procee<lings of the GeneraZ Oouncil, 134 ;, reprinted in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Te:i,as, I, 645; Brown, J. H. History of Texas, I, 444 with one important difference. Brown's version reads "the enemy have large re-inforcements on the road to our frontiers, with whom there is $10,000 in money"; t"he Lamar copy has "$40,000 in money," as bas the Journal. "Broadside. Printed in Yoakum, H. K., ·History of Texas, II, 450; Morphis, J. M., History of Texas, 126; Nevill, C., History of the Revolu- tion tn Texas, 209.
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