[3764,] [BURNET to DRAKE ET AL]
Executive Department, Republic of Texas, Velasco, July 22, 1836.
To Daniel Drake, M. D.; William Corry, Esq.; Pulaski Smith, Esq.; Nathan Leamans, Esq., and W. Chase, Esq. Gentlemen: The two beautiful pieces of "hollow-ware," lately presented to us, through your agency, by the citizens of Cincinnati, as a free-will offering to the cause of human liberty, were received very opportunely, and have become conspicuous in our struggle for independence. Their first effective operations were in the memorable field of San Jacinto, where they contributed greatly to the achievement of a victory not often paralleled in the annals of war. I doubt n.ot their voices will again be heard, and their power felt in the great and interesting cause to which they were dedicated by your liberality, and in the advancement of which we are so arduously engaged. To you, gentlemen, and to the citizens of Cincinnati, who have manifested so generous a sympathy in our cause, I beg leave to tender the warmest thanks of a people who are contending for their liberties and their lives, against a numerous nation of semi- savages, whose cruelty is equalled only by their want of spirit and of military prowess. Should our enemy have the temerity to renew his altempt to subjugate our delightful country, the voices of the twin sisters of Cincinnati will yet send their reverbations beyond the Rio Grande, and carry unusual terror into many a Mexican hamlet. Texas has no desire to extend her conquests beyond her own natural and appropriate limits, hut if the war must be prose- cuted against us, after abundant evidence of its futility has been exhibited to the enemy and to the world, other land than our own must sustain a portion of its ravages. Permit me, gentlemen, to tender to you, and to your fellow-citizens who have rendered Texas much efficient aid, assur- ances of my profound esteem.
Your ob.'t serv. 't. David G. Burnet.
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