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~lalamoros June 24 1836 My dear friend - With much pleasure J lake assist of the departure of the bearer to communicate to you some of my ideas about Lhe events of the day - I should have wished lo have had a more continued and connected correspondence with you, but until! the present circumstances have not permitted it, tho' 1 do not abandon the hope that in less than a short time we shall have greater facilities to effect it.- I frequently receive news from our Mexican friend on whom you drew the draft which you gave me in Orleans he prays me to send him news by every post he and his friends have no confidence except in that which I write to them as they have seen verified all which I have told them. - The Government deceived by Urrea continues to deceive the poor l\foxicans and in Mexico they are groping in the dark.- As 1 think it eligible to inform you of all the intrigues now enacting in these ports I will proceed to give you a certain detail of them, craving of your goodness to pin down my prolixity. After what happened to Santa Ana, Filisola held a council of all the principal officers of the Division and in very few words pointed out to them the cricital situation in which they were placed asking at the same time the opinion of each and all of them as to what should be done. Urrea as one oft's youngest and modern, stimulated by his private views as you will hereafter see herein explained, made a lengthy and jesuitical speech, after which he asked for an order to march forthwith to Matamoros where, as he said a pronouncement was to Le apprenhended, he obtained the order and instantly took up the line of march. The principal officers now perceiving the deplorable condition of the Army morally and ph.isically reduced to such a condition that Two hundred men would have been sufficient to have destroyed it entirely resolved to retreat towards Matamoros where they hoped to find new re- sources- Meanwhile Urrea had arrived al Matamoros and jointly with Vital Fernandez put into operation the plan which thus far has equalled their expectations, that is his (Urrea's) becoming Commander in chief, to effect this he reported with assisdity that Filisola was no other than a traitor who by retreating had sacrificed the honor and best interests of his a<lopled country, that he had more than a sufficient force left to have not only disregarded the orders of Santa
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