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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPAR'PE LAMAR
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1836 Oct. 4, ROB[ERT] C. BROW1, 'BROWNWOOD NE R LA- GRA GE, GEORGIA, TO MIRABEAU. [·B O A- PARTE] LAl\lAR, [COLUMBIA 1] TEXAS Introducing l\Iajor Je e Bull; congratulations. A. L. S. 1 p. o. 455 1836 Oct. 4, WILEY WILSON, LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, TO M[IRABEAU] B[U0.1. APARTE] LAMAR, [COLUMBIA V TEXAS] Introducing Jesse L. Bull. A. L. S. 1 p.
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No. 456
1836 Oct. 4, D. G. BURNET. MESSAGE TO CO~GRESS 1
MESSAGE
OF TIIE PRESIDENT, TO THE FIRST CONGRESS, OF TIIE
Republic of Texas.
Follou·-Citize11s of the Senate and of the Ho11se of Representatives; The assembling of the elect representatives of a free and overeigu people, within the late department of Texas, is an event that calls for the warmest gratulations of every patriot heart. But mutual felicitations alone, would be i:nadequate to express the high sentiments that ought to pervade our bosoms on this solemn and intercstin ' occasion. Holier and loftier feelings become us; for it is meet that we raise our thought and our.thank givings to that omnipotent Beiug who rnles the universe, directs the affairs of empires, and guides the destiny of all. Among the many revolutions that have varied the political condition of men, few have exemplified more clearly, than that in which we are now engaged, the controlling supervision, and the high approbation of a beneficent Providence. We have realized, by actual demonstra- tion, that "the battle is not always ·witfhJ the stron.g." The enemy cam·e upon us, a well marshalled host-with great vigor and might; but he was ,repelled by a mere handfull of patriots, and the flush of his con- fidence, inspired by numbers, was turned to palenes and trembling. It therefore behoves us, in the spring-time of our national existence, to lift up our hearts in devout gratitude to the God of battle , that 'Broadside. Previously printed In Niles Register, 51, 189 and in the House Journal, first congress, first session, 9; but reprinted here because ot Its importance.
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