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the security of the prisoners, and particularly for that of your .affectionate friend ancl· comrade. AJ. "TONIO LOPEZ DE A:N"TA ANXA. San Jacinto, April 25, 1836. To His Excellency, Don Vicente Filasola. No. 357 1L-'J6 A.pr. '!6, w~r. IT. WlL\RTO.•. .ADDRE S UPO. • TE.'" OT ADDRESS or the l-IOXORABLE "\Yl\[. IT. WHARTON.
MR. CII.\IR)t.\N .\ND GEXTLEMEN,
On an occasion like the present, the qn<' tion naturally oc-. curs. why are we a sf'mhled ?-\\.,.hy the tln·onging of this spaciou. room? Why th<' earne,;tne~s and attention which prevail? "\\•hy that inten ity of excitement which penlrn iu e,·ery nction. and parkle in every eye Are we here assernblea, to make a portion of a pnj?eant in offering incense and adnlntion at the shrine of power. and to thereby ailvance our worldly interest bv our ,·er~• debasement Y No, far purer, far nobler; and I may add, without irrcverf'nce. far holit'r moth-es have called n togetJ1er. 11 local- all sectional-and all party feelings and pnrpo es l1ide their climin- U1ed heacls, and shrink into merited insigni•ficance while contem- plating the disinterested phila11thropy and the moral gr.andeur of our present object . And fortunate it is for the indivinnal who now addresses you, that the s11hject with which hr won1d occupy :vonr attention, i. one that wiU find an echo in the breast of every freeman and for that rca on requires not a depth or variety of learn- ing for elucidation, nor the force of arirnment. for conviction. nor the dazzling blaze of eloquence to make it interesting. "\Ve are as. embled to participa1 e, for a few moments, in thos<' lofty feelings which nerved the all conqnerini;: arms, and kindled the dauntless henrts of the hero<'s of '76. The mo t bloody ann ahhorrent outrage npon liberty "ill he drpicted to yon ~entlemen. that has ever stained the annal. of ci"\·ilized warfnrr. Trnr it is that this ontragr ha. hef'n perpetratt'd in another land.-but the inhnhitnnts of that lanil "are hon(' of vour lione, and fie h of your flesh." They Wt>re once ~·onr fellow--ritizens, and they are now en- gal?<'cl in the can. e of truth, anrl light ancl lih~rty-against the prirstrraft and the military d spoti m that would Pn. lnve or exter- minate thrm. Yes! they arf' now gRllantly rontcnding for tllt' samt> r-;acrecl principles for which TTcnry tlmndcrcd-"\Vashin1?fon con- ']Ucred- ancl "\Varren clit>d. l\fr. C'hRil'man an<l Gentlcm<'n, Rt the l'<'CJllest of my collN1gne. T anpra1· bc-forr :von this evt'nini:t in their name and in my ow-n. ns one of th" rt'nr!'i:-entntivt>s of snffNi11g Tl'.·a,, for tllC' pnrpo c of t'Xplain- inC! to \'OIi the orii.?in of hc-r diffit>ultit>. nncl her pres.:nt position ancl "Pamphlet.
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