su gloria. Rcorganice V. E. el ejercito, socorra las necesidades <lei soldado, hablcle el idioma dcl valor y del ·heroismo, y asegurele que el gobicrno va a desplegar todos sus recursos, para vengan el honor del cjercilo, y destruit los cobardes lraidores de Tejas. A V. E. le tienen dadas amplias faculladcs, sin ponerle otro limite que el que prescribe el honor y gloria nacional. Salve V. E. eslos sagrados objetos, y todo se le aprueba. Con este motivo, reproduzco a V. E. las protestas de mi mas distingui<la consideracion y particular afecto. Dios y libertad. Mexico, 10 de Junio de 1836. -Tornel.- Escmo. Sr. general D. Jose Urrea, en gefe del ejercito de operaciones. (3381] (BURNET to ARMY J
Address To the Army of Texas,
Citizen Soldiers,
1 address you on subjects of common interests; the peace the prosperity and the honor of Texas. Your gaUanlry has nobly sustained her reputation for chivalry in the field of battle; but deeds of valor are not alone sufficienl to establish the high characler of an enlightened patriotic and christian people. A scrupulous regard to the established and benificent principles of morality, are equaUy indispensible. A nation can hever be great without valor, not respectable without virtue. The highest courage, if unchastened by moral feeling, degenerates into mere anim.tl impulse, ceases to discriminale men, from the brute creation. Patriotism is emphatically a moral senliment, and lhe citizen soldier who has no veneration for the moral character of his country, may be brave and enterprizing, and may render good service in the field, but he can never merit the illustrious Lille of a Patriot The hallo which surrounds the name of Washington receives less of its splendour from his achievements in arms, thim from the purily, the disinterestedness, the punctilious integrity which characterized all his walks in life. Arnold was brave and enterprizing, but Washington was a palriol. J address these things Lo you Citizen Soldiers because the exegcncics of the Limes require that every proper incentive lo duly be calmly received by us all, lhat all may pcrceivt-: their own
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