person. If such outrage had been committed; it would have been promptly chastised. "The President and Cabinet" entertained no intenLion of "making a show" of your Excellency, whose condiLion as a prisoner has invariably commanded their highest veneration, and towards whom they h.avc exhibited every atten- tion that was compatible with their official duties, and within their power to bestow. Your Excellency's final denunciation is probably the result of excited feeling. While you are detained as a prisoner, it is inevitable that the ordinary precautions must be observed. I am not apprised that more than this has been done. Your Excellency is not ignorant that the members of this government are remote from their own homes, and are very indifferently accommo- dated- that the seat of gov,ernment is not permanently located, and therefore no public buildings have been erected. To these facts you will find no difficulty in attributing your being placed in "a narrow prison"-and your Excellency knows that the room you occupied is more commodious than that which constitutes both my office and my own family habitation. It is vividly fresh in my recollection that about two months ago, the best accommodations this new government has enjoyed, were broken up when the army under your Excellency's immediate command conllagrated the Town of Harrisburg.
With high Consideration, I am Your Ob't serv't David G. Burnet
[June 10, 1836]
J3369J [BURNET PROCLAMATION]
A Proclamation By the president of Lhe republic of Texas Whereas, it is represented to me that there are many persons now in Lhe United States of America calling themselves the agents of the government of Texas, and professing to have powers which have never been conceded, and as many frauds have been practised by sllch persons upon individuals who have been disposed to contribuLe for the support of our cause: and as some agents have been appointed by this, or the late provirn:ial government, whose powers are not sufficiently defined-
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