rnoting the cause of Texas. Can a cause so just, promoted under such auspices, and sustained by two thousand marksmen of the West, fail of success? To the field, then, brave and generous spirits. We offer to the enterprising who would improve their conditions and provide for their families, wealth and homes in the most fertile and lovely country in the world; to the youthful and daring who thirst for fame and glory, we open a field w-ide as their abmition, where they may realize their brightest hopes and visions; and to the lover of liberty and the philanthropist, we present a cause, just, holy and universal, in which he may give exercise and action to the noblest sentiments of patriotism. By Order of T. Jefferson Chambers, Gen. C. A. R.
Wm. P. Duval, Adj't. Gen. A. R.
LouisviUe, July 15, 1836.
[3707] [COLLINSWORTH and GRAYSON to BURNET]
To His Ex. D. G. Burnet Prest &c. Sir
Washington 15th July, 1836
We arrived here on the 7th inst. After having been detained, Some days in consequence, of low water, & getting aground on the Ohio River. [illegible] .. . we omitted no ordinary exertions, to reach this place, before the adjournment of Congress, but by unavoid- able delays were disappointed. On arriving here, we were informed that Lhe President of the U. States, was on the point of setting out for the Hermitage, and Lhal lime would not admit of a formal interview. Under these circumstances (Congress having adjourned and most of the members left) one of us having had a long personal acquaintance, wilh the President, deemed it not improper, on lhe evening of our arrival to make a formal caH, during which we were fairly led lo infer from a conversation with him, that he had sent a Secret Agent, on the parl of the part of the Government of the United Stales to Texas, with letters to the Presiden l of the Republic to prosecute various i-:nquiries, as to our situation interval, civil & political, and that nothing conclusive could be done until that commissioner was heard from-
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