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P.\PER. OF Um.\BE,\U B ON.\P.\RTE LAMAR
I a k that your :Maje ty be pleased to consider this narrative which, though lacking in force, i not Jacking in truth. Your Majesty will ee that I re train myself and report only those things whicl can be of importance to the great cau·se. I de ire your Majesty to use me in whatever you may consider ine u efu] in order to let the nation see with works and not with ,vord that in me if has a real son who wishes to serve it. / I am: your ~fajesty's most obedient servant who desires to sacri- fice himself £or the service and for the respect of your Majesty. lilay God p1·eserve you many years for our protection. Your most obedient P. S. A month before my expulsion from Bexar a Mr. Augustin, citizen of Zacatecas, who had brought the plausible news of the respectable state of the insurrection in the interior, in view of the establishment of the Supreme Government, arrived and gave-me a list of the name of the members and likewise of eleven generals who were commanding large armies in variou part of the Kingdom. This same individual offered to convey my communication to you, but it was impossible [ on account of l the v~ry great dangers which resulted from Arredondo's having prevented every means of doil1g it. I[ord]ered a thanksgiving mass to be held; I had the people informed of the glad news which was celebrated with thanksgiving, music, general ringing of bells, and artillery salutes. I then ordered the news which I sent by special courier to be published in the newspaper of the · United [States.] Before I entered the province of Texas, [I ordered] a conrier to con- vey a parcel of letters to His Excellency, l\Ir. Rayon, in which 1 gave an account of everything of importance. l\Iy letters reached Saltillo and were delivered to- a Mr. Leto11a who promised to give them to Mr. Rayon. This man was th best known general and for this reason I wrote to him, but up to the pre eut time I have received no reply. If only I could have had an answer at that time, we might now be lib- erated from the Spaniards, and I and my family would no longer be living in shame and misery. r ew Orleans August 1, 1815. . Jose Bemardo Gutierrez de Lara. servant who ki ses yom· hand. New Orlean -Augu t 1, 1815.
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[c, 18151], QUOTATIONS FROM WATT , BACON, GOETHE, LOCKE, ETC. COPY. 2 P. No. 12 [c. 1816?, ALFRED? IVER o~ 1, EATOXTON, GEORGIA]. ES- SAY: "WAS BRUTUS JUSTIFIABLE I ASS.AS I ATil'JG CAESAR 1" 11 P.
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