vessels were freighted with supplied for Lhe enemy. He expected lo meet them at Copano on his return. But they have been transferred to us. His subsistence, to enable lum to open a campaign, has now to be replaced by other shipments from New Orleans, packed from Matamoras, hauled on carts and waggons, or driven to the frontier, on the foot. Gen. Rusk has taken the precaution to drive in all the stock east of the Nuecis, from the mouth to the head of this river. The Mexican population has been compelled to come in also. Neither supplies of beef, nor men to give, or carry information, are left behind, between the Nuecis and Guadaloupe Rivers. The enemy will he compelled to transport his supplies as he moves, drive them along, or wait the arrival of others, sent from abroad. Again - Gen. Filasola is a party to the treaty, made by our Cabinet with Santa Anna - and whatever the fVlexican Government may urge, and with whatever colour of argument concerning the want of obligation on them, flowing from the instrument as the act of Santa Anna, while a prisoner, the argument cannot avail as applied to Filasola. This officer was under no duress when he signed it, and he was Commander in Chief of the Army of Mexico, then in Texas, after the capture of Santa Anna. And it is said that Filasola insists on the observance of the treaty by the Mexican Government. Again - it is said also, that it was well understood in Matamoras, at the date of our dispatches from them, by his friends, that the President, Santa Anna, would be safely on his way to that port by water, before the news of the intended expedition could reach Texas. It is certainly very fair to infer, from a comparison of all these facts - to wit: the transfer of their suppljes to us, by capture, and the consequent disappointment to them; the failure of Santa Anna to get off, as contemplated by him, as anticipated by his friends in Mexico, and as stipulated by the Texian Cabinet; the obligation of the treaty on Filasola's command, so acknowledged by him, and urged upon his government - that some delay will most probably result, in the movements of the enemy, from all these mischances - sufficient, perhaps, if our people rally as soon and as strongly as we are now assured they will? to enable us to remain on the Guadaloupe, without falling back to meet reinforc~- ments. When the news of Santa Anna being still a prisoner of wa~ m possession of the army of Texas, instead of that of his landmg safely on the coast, reaches the army and government of Mexico_, it will he very apt, let the ultimate decision be what il may, to brmg perplexity to the one and retard the movements of the other. It will, in fact, involve both in a dilemma, from which neither can be readily extricated, without some delay.
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