The balance of your accounl has been paid in Treasury
orders of which S41.639 09 draws inleresl.
Respeclfully, yours, &c. A. Brigham, Auditor. 1-1. C. Hudson, Comptroller.
[Augusl, 1836]
r 41131 [FICKLIN lo AUSTIN]
Lexington Augt -1836
Dr Sir,
The call of Gent Gaines on the Govr of Kentucky for 10 companies of mounted men has been met by lhe eounlies near Frankford the first week leaving out lhe rest of the stale. The Co. from Lexington when complete sent off lo the Govr al midnight and was the last being the 10th company offered and the [illegible] night others were in making up lo lhis time 12 companies more than required Genl Chambers is here and entertains hopes that several of those companies will go to Texas; the military feeling of the state would be most favorable for Texas if your affairs were as they were last winter, but appearances are so alarming that public feeling abroad and out of your country is fasl approaching a most dangerous point of giving up all hope and the same slate of feeling must arise in Texas itself- The removal of Houston is one among the heaviest blows- The objections to Houston can not equal the confidence the world has in him, and the very circumstance of dismissing him proves a want of fitness in the authorities of lhe Country which must do the greatest injury- The attempt to send off Santa Anna by the cabinet and the desire to kill him by an other portion of your Citizens forms an other cause of division among you and both equally defected as regards policy- The lalter has the addition in public feeling of a violation of all law and principle lo reach an outlaw who was placed on the footing of all other prisoners of war the moment his orders to his troops to retreat was accepted by the Authorities of Texas- Whether his orders were obeyed or not or whether so far as they were observed was an advantage lo Texas or not matters not a straw because Santa Anna can not be blamed and the acceptance of his proposals was a commencement of negotiations which took his case from the posrtion he stood in wh1\n taken, Th,· world is
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