further inland with a strong and vigilanl gaurcl-we would furlher suggest thaL it wilt be exlrcmely dangerous to the counlry generally & 1-lazcrdious for the governmc11L to act against the known wishes of their constituanls we pledge ourselves thal this is the wish of nearly every man in those respective mu nisapalities We the people beleive this is a right garenteed lo us and hope you will give it nil the weight due to us as Citizens or Texas. [3310] [FU.ISOLA to RUSK] [Vicente Filisola, Rio de la Nueces, to Thomas J. Rusk, June 7, 1836, concerning his retreat from Texas.] [3311 J [GAINES to SECRETARY OF WAR) Headquarters, Western Department, Camp Sabine, June 7, 1836. Sir: I had the honor to receive on the 3d instant your letter of the 25th of April, and on the 31st yours of the 4th of Lhe lasl month. The effective contents of these letters, which I am gratified lo find published in the newspapers, have relieved me of great anxiety; but what is of infinitely more consequence, they cannot but assure the soberminded inhabitants of the whole western hor• • der, and more especially of this most importa11t, vulnerable, ex• posed, and thinly-settled section, that they will receive from the Federa] Government that description of protection which is guar• antied by the constitution of the United States to the whole people of the United States-that protection, the efficient work of which should commence, if possible, before the work of deslruc- tion on the frontier has begun-protection to the living citizen, rather than Lo the ashes of the slain! These views of the President shaJI, as far as I have the ability and the means 1 be carried into full effect, and his orders scrupulously obeyed. The reports of a pacific description on "the part of the neighboring Indians, which l had the honor to communicale in my lcllcrs of the 20th and 28th of April and the 2d of May, have been hul in part confirmed, as you will see hy the enclosed copy of a
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