fifteen to twenty miles below this city with comfortable board & lodging for the volunteers; then by a request to the Commandant of Fort Jackson a Drill sergeant could be procured whose duty wd be lo parade & drill them every morning and eveng by this means they wd become partially but very beneficially disciplined during their stay, whereas now they lounge about without a place to rest their heads, they often drink & meet with enemies of Texas, who dissuade them from their patriotic purposes & send scores of them back home, all of whom are thus either cold or partially enimical to your cause. This was a great oversight, indeed the business, of Texas, from some cause or other, was never more than half done; and ind[ torn J this, view of the cause, I congratulate your Sir, and the country, upon the fact that with the smallest means you have produced the greatest results-and further remark that when I say "not more than half done" I do not mean to eensur any person connected with your affairs. It was rather the result of misfortune than malintention. I have the pleasure & the honor of giving passage to about One hundred & fifty fine looking fellows, (volunteers) on board the Brig Good Hope, which vessel has been devoted to the cause of Texas since her arrival in this part of the country. Have the goodness my dr. Sir to make my respects agreeable lo the gentlemen of the Cabinet and also to excuse this almost uninteligible script and accept my best regards &c Stuart Perry Please also to advise the agents to pay me for such Papers as I may have taken for the passage of volunteers and persons connected with the cause of Texas SP. [3783] [TOBY to BURNET]
New Orleans July 23, 1836
To His Excellency D. G. Burnet Esq. President of the Republic of Texas
Dear Sir Enclosed we hand you a copy of an anonymous letler addres.sed Lo the Editor of the Bulletin-Whether it can be relied on or not is a
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