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PAPERS OF 1\[IRABEAU BUONAP.\RTE LAMAR
me to Velasco taking for a ·pretext of some [same f] that there w~re intentions in the army under your command to commit some violence on my person, but I have observed that you have sufficient power to cause Law and Justice to be fulfilfed in the character in which I came to the Texian camp, and i11 case you had not sufficient authority for that-I could not have more security in Velasco than any other point, you mention also that at such time as the negotiations of the Texians with his Excellency the .President-Don Anto Lopez Santa Anna shall be concluded that I can join the army to which 1 1 belong. I contest that I have nothing to do with those ne 0 ociations, that I came to your encampment to leave what were the articles of Truce, and I was to return with them or without them. Uy duty and honor call me to the army, that being my situation, it is necessary to assure you, that it is u ing violence to make me go to Velasco. And I repeat that my duty calls me to the army. I am dispo ed to loose more ' than my life, than not to do that which honor demands. Some day the world shall know that a 1\fexican General bad a safe conduct from the commander of the army of Texas to come and know of the articles of the Truce and powers to cause them to be complied with from {he army to which he belonged, and that he has been detained against the Law of rations and insulted without regard to the sacred- ness of his character and situated to receive injuries, without power to resist them; and also to cause them to be understood that this General knows his rights and that be has suffiuient energy to fnHil it. Some day the world will kno,v that the Texians who call upon the name of Liberty, and call upon the rights of humanity, that they have violated all as regards myself. The world will then be authorized to judge whether men who would commit acts like these deserve to be free-God and Liberty- Kyr Kindoll To Gen Dre Thomas Rusk 12th l\1ay 1836 Adrian Woll Commander in chief of Texian Forces 0. 364 f1836-47 !,fay 12-?, MIRABEAU BUONAP.ARTE L 1AR)
Notes upon Santa Anna and other papers. A. Df. 76 p. See nos. 362, 2366-7.
N'o. 365 1836 May 14, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SA. 'TA A)-:~ A AND 'I'IIE · C.c\BL"ET OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS 12 "Secret treaty." Copy. 2 p.
"Printed in Brown, J. H., History of Texas, II, 64; Texas Almanac, 1861, 86; Yoakum, H. K., History of ,Texas, II, 528.
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