marcha a sus ordcncs: pero lan Jucgo como acampe a la orilla dcl Rio, pasare a informar a V. S. con mas estension, <lei csl.1do del ejercilo, y lo quc es necesario hacer para que se reslablezca en lodos sus ramos, que una campana lull penosa lie11e deslruidos. Sirvase V. E. admitir las proleslas de mi aprccio y considcracion. Dios y liberlad. Carricitos, Junio 14 de 1836.-Juan Jose Andrade.-Sr. general D. Jose Urrea, en gefe del ejercito. [3415] (AUSTIN to-----]
New Orleans June 14, J 836
Gentlemen:
Messers. P. W. Grayson and Collingsworth arrived here yesterday in six days Ii-om Velasco (the present seat of the Gov't. of Texas. They confirm all the accounts previously received and published in the papers here. That is, the substance of said reports. The armistice or treaty made with Santa Anna has been recog11izcd by Gen. Filasola, the second in command, by which il was stipulated that the Mexican troops should retire beyond the Rio Grande <lei Norte, that aU property, negroes, etc., taken from the Texans should be returned, etc. Rusk, wilh near 2,000 men had advanced as far as beyond Guadalupe (his advance guard as far as Goliad) to see that the stipulations of the treaty were complied with. Santa Anna was stiU at Velasco, a prisoner, etc. The Gov't. of Texas was in the fuU and uninterrupted possession of the country,-- all was harmony and union. The Mexican troops had vacated Goliad and San Antonio de Bexar and their advance had crossed the River Nuecis on the retreat. These, in substance, are the f act.s. Under these circumstances, 1 presume there cannot he a doubt of the capacity of Texas to sustain independence. The declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the acts of the Texas Gov't. all prove the fact of the regular organization and revise of a Gov't. de facto in Texas, established by the people. The de jure prin<;iple of the Texas Gov't. l presume no one will question, whether it be tested by the right to secede, which an independent state or society has, from a confederation which has been illegally overturned (as is the case of Texas, with respect to the Mexican Confederation): or by the broad principles of natural right
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