PAPERS OF ~DR.\BE u BuoNAPARTE LAM.AR 329 venerating the name of \Va hington, now in arm against Santa Anna to put clown such monstrous doctrines. Have you lived thus Ion" to be thu insulted, and to have your father~' principles and your own rights thu invaded Y Does no portion of the fire of 1776 animate your lfosoms, that you are thus content to live and breath the air where such doctrines are boldly avowed and will in all probability be attempted to be inforced Y Are you thus content in the very commencement of your struggle for lihcrty, to abandon the golden price, and urrender the temple of Liberty, ,vith the rich legacy purchased by your patriotic sires, blood to the hand of a traitor, and would be a Despot t If you would not, J a"ain solemnly call upon you to su fain the Government, to bring to its aid all your strength, and all your integrity. Its stability is now to be tested and on you devolves the responsibility of sustaining it or permitting it to perish. . Officers of the Government, when you entered on the dischar!?e of your duties, you took and subscribed the following oath : '' I do solemnly swear that I will support the Republican.principles of the Constitution of Mexico of 1824, and ohey the declaration & ordi- nance of the Consultation of the Chosen Delegates of all Tex.as in General Convention a sembl d, and the ordinances· and decree of the Provisional Government." Some of you have resolved in public Resolution t~at you would sustain Henry Smith in opposition to the decrees of the Council. In that declaration you forfeited the acred and solemn obligation into which you entered. By a suming that position you place yourselve in the sitlilation of insurgents to the Government. But believing you were mistaken as respects the true nature of thin.,. , and that you have unadvisedly acted, I now offer to overlook thi first aberation provided you return at once to your duty & obedience to the Government. Should you refuse and hold out in oppo ition, my duty con trains· me· to tell yo 1 that all the means in possession of the Government will be resorted to, to bring you to obedience, and the consequences that will befal you will be of your own seeking. Fellow Citizens of Texas, let me agains remind you of your duty. "In the name of the People of Texas, Free and Sovrei"'n" I charge you not to he guilty of the crime of treason, to raise no parricidal arm against your Government, not yourselves to forge the chains by which your liberties are to be manacled. But I require you to be· prepared to su_tain the Government whenever called _upon, if nes- se ary, with "your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor" :M)ay an overruling Providence dash from our devoted Country the cup of clanger pr ented by the hand of trea on and ambition: and may he so incline our heart and direct our step , that we may yet realize those bles ings and that freedom which our country and natural resorc o abundantly ena!bles us to enjoy. ' Given ttnde1· rny hamd in the town of San iFelf,pe· de Austin Feb. 12th, 1836. J A rns W. ROBINSON. [Endor ed] 12th Feb 1836 Proclamation of Acting Gon. Robinson relative to Henry Smith.
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