We are very glad lo see you, and iL gives us pleasure lo sec you come amongst us, expecting LhaL your advice and good talk will be a bencfiL to the nation. We wish you Lo give us a recommendation LhaL we can show Lo Lhe p1~oplc who may come among us lo give us bad advice, and also an assurance lo them Lhal we are peaceable. We musl again say that we are glad you have come among us. I think ii will do greaL good lo the nation. I wish our great chief, General Gaines, would send some one lo talk lo us very often, and advise us how lo act. I will endeavor to persuade the men of my nation lo follow the a<lvice you have given us. If any new whiskey-sellers come amongst us we will advise you of it; and also if any one come here lo persuade us to go to war. The firsl chief of the naLion's name is "Ta-Sha, or the "Wolf," Lhe second "Saw-ne-NauL," or the "Falher of children." [4073) [ROGERS AND DAVIS Lo-----] Camp Coletta, Texas Army, 24th Aug, 1836 Dear Madam:-The feelings of lively interest manifested by yourself and your immediate friends in the success of our expedition induce us to give you some account of our movements. With their hisLory up to the term of our leaving Galveston, you are doubtless acquainted. The causes thaL impelled Col. Wilson and his adherents to return to their homes and friends are likewise before you. Of them therefore, it is necessary for us lo speak-for any representation coming from us under Lhe circumstances by which we are surrounded would of course fail to change the impression already made by their sLalements-which though slriclly correst must be of such a character when taken in connection with the fact of their leaving Texas-as Lo prejudice- irreconcilably perhaps, the public mind againsL Lhe land of our adoption-the country in whose defence we have drawn our swords, and with which we have sworn lo "live or die." But for information on this subject, if you arc not already satisfied, we refer you lo Col. Grooms, who rcLurns Lo KcnLucky for the purpose of recruiting.
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