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from your councils, all party spirit and political intrigue; and armed in the panoply of an honest patriotism, move forward in the path of duty, and onward to the ~oal of our country's redemption. And may the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, give you wisdom to discern, virtue to •chocse, an<l firmness to pursue, the 1·ight and eschew the wrong. And then your labors will redound to the essential and per- manent benefit of your country, and will so establish your own fair fame, that the voice of jealousy and the tongue of vituperation, shall not prevail to sully its brightness.
DAVID G. BURNET.
Columbia, 4th October, 1836.
[Endorsed)
Burnetts first :Message to Congress
Columbia October 4h. 1836
No. 457
1836 Oct. 6, l\f. UUXT TO l\f. B. LAl\IAR, [COLUl\lBIA?) Norfolk,-Va., 6th October, 1836 I\Iy Dear Sir,- I have written an official letter to President Houston requesting a eonfirmation of the orders of President Burnet to me. ']'here are now nearly one thousand Emigrants starting and on the eve of setting out for Texas, to join my division of the army. Genl. "\Y. F. Jones of S. Carolina, not being enabled to accompany me, I have had it in my power to fill the station he would have occupied by a gentleman from your natiYe State, who I have known long and well, and who is everything- we would have him to be. This indiYidual is Gen. George S. i1lclntosl1, son to Genl McIntosh of Ga., Nephew to Go,·. Troup, Bro-in-Law to Genl Clinch, &c, &c. He is a Southern gentleman with whom you are acquainted, will command the other Brigade con- situting my division. ~either of us own an acre of land in Texas, and are advancing largely to the Government-a circumstance which is greatly henefittini::- our cause, as it gives the lie to the accusation on the part of the enemies of Texas in the U. S., tl1at speculation and merce- nary eonsicle1·ations, influence all who embark any thing in the good and just cause of onr oppressed and bleeding country. I have induced some- of the fine~t young men in tl1c U. S. to embark in the Texian cause with me, many of whom it will be a gratification to ~·on to mnke the acqnaintance of. I am a warm advocate of annexing Texas to the U. S.-I believe and hope it i1< the case with a large majority of the citizens of 'l'exas. I shall visit the P1·esident of the U. S. in a few days, and allude to the suhjeet in our interview. You shall have the substance of wlint trans- pires, if 1 feel authorized to eommnnieate it to you. The hm<l holders in Texas, resident in the City of New York, with n few exceptions, lend uo pecuniary ni<l wh~tever to Texas. Onght persons who own property in Texas be allowed to hold it, when they
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