June 4 1836 to July 21 1836 - PTR, Vol. 7

in ulter terror whcrcever ovcr-Laken, and I hold Texas as essenLi.ally severed from Mexico al present as the U.S. were from G. BriLtain after Cornwallis's Capture al York. The theory of her Governm'tis the same as ours: Her ConstiLuLion adopted in March, almosl a literal copy. Her citizens have more experience in its execution than ours had for Lhe first lne years afLcr its being pul into operation; and I need not be told this people are a set of scape-graces from Justice. Their convention from 70,000 people, had more talent of all sorts, than had ours last )'<!ar taken from 800,000. J know not on Enrth, and never have heard of,so small a community so well able to take care of itself; and they will be doubled by chrislmus, and three Limes their now numbers in next 12· mo. Whal is lo prevent Lheir Elections and govemmenL going on well Lhis Summer? Surely not the poor mongrel Mexicans! That Lhcre is more danger of Texas conquering Mexico, than the reverse, admits of no doubt. Sir the project is a great favourite here. Last Saturday our fr'd Gnl. Dunlop came to me to aid in geting $25,000 to take troops to Texas. I refused, and we held him back. By monday Morning the order for the Creek Service came, and Houston's official report, and the certainity that the Mexicans were flying the Country. This stopped it. Nothing else could. I have seen some half dozen shake their heads, but the courage to say no, is not found. And if any member of Congress should vote against Texas Independence his political prospects would be ruined. This is all perfectly natural. The blight and horror that over-came the community on hearing of the butchery at the taking of the Alamo, and the shooting of our young men on the coasL, was great: But the cold-blooded murder of upwards of 400, (Fanning's men, and others) at one Lime, and burning of them half alive, has put this community into a worse humour than did the Laking of Fort l\llimms in 1813. Nor is the fever going lo cool soon. The men under thirty five, and all the women, are for having St. Anna shot, and the Texas Eagle planted on his Capital. I have been in Mississippi twice, and Louisana once this spring, and am very sure if this war continues between Mexico and Texas for one year more, that an Army from Lhe west, the valley of the Mp'i, will march upon the City of Mexico. Thal power will call to its aid England of course, and of course, England will do in Mexico as she has done in India, govern iL, and govern the Gulf of Mexico, and mouth of the Mp'i. For us it shurely would be better to cause Mexico, and Texas lo treat, an<l for us to treat with Texas, fixing the western boundary, short perhaps of the Rio Grande Del Norte, but not much.

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