You will please deliver copies to such of your friends, as will
give them general publicity.
With a hope that your health may be speedily restored. I
have the honor to be
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Very respectfully Yr Obt friend and servt Wm. H. Jack Will you have the kindness to urge the committees to forward the package to Red River. [addressed:] [addressed:] To Major Gen! Sam Houston
Com in Chief San Augustine per Coln. Gaines
[3856) [MILLARD to HULING]
Headquarters Colletta August 2d 1836
Thos. B. Huling Esqr.
Dear sir having been engaged in various Duties for the public service that has taken up the most of my time I have had but little leasure for private correspondence. I have just returned from Velasco where I have been in company with Col. Wheelock on a mission from the army to the Government whom I found imbecile inactive and incapable of performing the high duties assigned to them, a complete disorganization of every department that could or ought lo have rendered Efficient aid to the army and people for whom they were deligated to act. I immediately opened a correspondence with them upon the subject of the defence of the country, the Better organization of the army, the organization of the Qr Master Genis department &c that the operations against our Enemies might be carried on with more Effect, which after a negotiation of Eleven days we Effected, so far as pledges will go both written & verbal, the waste of military stores clothing provisions and in fact everything that passed th.rough their hands has been shameful beyond calculation while the army have suffered severely for the want of a Little energy or honesty on their part but I left them fully employed in devising ways and means of perpetuating their power, that and speculation being their only employment for the Last 2 months their primary object is n~w lo Elevate Stephen F. Austin to the presidency and no stone will ~e left u~lurned by them to effect their object that they may agam come mto power under his patronage Genl. Austin is with them
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