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PAPERS OF MlR.\BE.\U BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
information relative to the officers of the Regular Army. Copy. 1 p. Atte. ted by H. S. Kemble, secretary; indor ed: '' Committee Me rs Pennington & Badgett.:'
No. 347
1836 Mar. 17, · IEETI TG A'l' BRAZOIUA 01
BRAZORIA MEETING. A meeting of the citizen of Brazoria wa held on the 17th of farch. The meeting was or(7anised 'by appointing Robt. l\fills Chairman and S. C. Dougla. s Secretary. · Ori. motion of F. C. Gray a committee of five was appointed to draft re olutions for the adoption of the meeting. \Vhereupon, D. C. Barrett, F. C. Gray,. S. C. Douglas, S. Bowen, Gowin Harris, and L. C. Man on were appointed that committee. The meeting adjourned for one hour. The meetina wa aaain a embled when the committee presented the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted. · 'fhe Committee to whom thi meeting referred the duty of drafting resolutions, expres ive of the object of the people, in a sembling on this occasion, report:- -That information, of the most alarming character, to the live , liberty and property of our citizen , ha been received by expre in two days from Gonzales, giving the distressing intelli 00 ence of the Fall of the Alamo at Bejar, and the merciless and cruel murder of every man in the garri on-and the rapid advance of the enemy into the heart of Texas, with the avowed purpo e of a general extermina- · tion of ourselve , our wive , our children and all who· inhabit this country. And we have moreover been apprai ed of the horrid purpose of our treacherous and bloody enemy, to unite in his rank , and as in truments .of his unholy and sava~e work, the negroes, whether slaves or free, thus lighting the torch of war, in the bosoms of our domestic circles. Therefore, Resolved, That our families, under the foregoing cir- cum tances, and the additional fact of a large portion of the effective men of this municipality, being now on the frontier, demand our immediate attention, and that necessary & effective mea ure should be promptly adopted for securin 17 in a proper manner all negroe , again t the means of doing injury to our families, and placing all in a state of every possible safety. RESOLVED, That a a first object a call be made upon all our citizens, having a proper regard to the objects of the.first re olution, to turn out in defence of Texas, and forthwith to repair to the Head Quarters of the army, and tha.t the name of all who volunteer, be immediately taken. I ""Printed In The Jonrnai of the General Convention at Washington, -; reprinted in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, I, 858. "'Broadside.
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