PAPERS oF Mm.a.BEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
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:l\femorandum furnished by Dr. Archer relative to the l\Iis ion of the Commissioners to the U. S. 1835- .illernorandum for Genl Lamar Commissioners
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[18361, 1\URABEAU BUO APARTE LAUAR, COLUl\IBIA? TEXAS] .. " Iexican measures equalized to Englis[h] measure by James Kerr." A. Df. 3 p.
[18361], 1\1. B. LA1\fAR, [COLUMBIA]. RELATION OF SCENES ND EYEN'rS co CER n TG SA TA ANA Memoranda. Whilst the Invincible was anchored off Velasco, with Santana on board, Green, Hunt and Henderson arrived with some volunteers from the US- These gentlemen took at _once an active part with the mob against Burnet and greatly encreaced the public ferment by their violent speeche - They demanded that Santana should be brough [t] on shore-the President refused. The mob, headed by these men gathered around the hem e where the president was. Two hundred volunteers just landed, (that very day or the day previous) joined them. The volunteers were paraded under arms. In this situation Burnet came out and addressed the croud- defended his views, and insisted that the Treaty should be carried out and the faith of the nation preserved. He was followed by Grayson 'who spoke to the same effect. ·wharton then made a long and independent peech. Re vin- mcated the Treaty, and repelled, most vehemently, the interference of the military in the Affair. He protested against er.ect;ion of the mili- tary over the civil authorities of the country; and especially against the interference of stranger , both officers & soldiers, who had just landed on our shores- he could not brook the,idea that they should become the dictator of the country and ~the govt at defiance- His speech however, had no effect upon the inflamed and misguided mass- When he took his seat, Collingsworth arose; but the people unwilling to hear further on that ide of the question put him down-A drunken, worthles fellow who was afterwards co-ndemed to perpetual banishment & was pardoned by myself as Seery of '\Vai·. cried out as Collingsworth rose "pull a Cap over that man's eyes"-some of tbe crowd reechoed the cry, and all joined in, in -calling him down from the stand which he had mounted to speak-when this was done, I jumped up immediately and rebuked the mob for their outrage upon the feelings of Colling worth- I told them, in substance, that Collings- worth was one of the Cabinet who had signed the Treaty and that he had a right to be heaTd in ju tification or explanation of his course. !Furthermore, I urged that if any one was entitled to a voice in the
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