Friend Hughs an order lo that effect. He would bring him to me, & he would be of main service in many repects. J. Bledsoe [Addressed:] 1-Jis Excelly David G. Burnel President of the Republic of Texas. [3279) [DONNELL to GAINESl Fort Jesup, June 4, 1836. Sir: I returned last evening from Squire McDonald's, from wl10m I learned that Manuel Flores, in company with Jose Maria Medrano and his servant, were at a marriage festival near the Adyes village (Spanish town) on the evening of the 6th of February last. While there, Mr. l\fonson, a citizen, said that Manuel Flores had shown him a commission from Santa Anna, the purport of which was that he, Manuel Flores, was .lo come lo the United Slates, imbody the Indians, and take them into Texas for the purpose of fighting against the white inhabitants thereof. Mr. Munson also stated that he had advised Mr. Flores to destroy the commission, as the Americans on this side would kill him if he attempted to put it into execution. M. Flores would not destroy it. The citizens present, l\Iexican Spaniards, a8 ,yell as American, were for seizing M. Flores, when he made his escape from the house; they pursued him lo another, and found the bed still warm from which he had just arisen; he had escaped. A day or two afterwards a Mexican citizen, named John l\loore, reported to Squire McDonald that Manuel Flores had asked him if there was any legal paper for his arrest, and that he had replied that the squire's presence was sufficient authority for his arrest. M. Flores said that they could nol have taken him; that he would have killed some of them; and tlial, before this time, he had not intended that tbc Indians should have fought the whiles on this side of the line, but now he would make them kill aJI the whites (Americans) he could every where. Two or three days afterwards, M. Flores, J.M. l\'ledrano, and his servant, left for the Caddo villages. Medrano slated that the Americans would not let him stay at home, (Nacogdoches;) and that, in conscqucnct\ he had come lo slay with M. Flores, with whom he was well acqtwintcd.
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