protection of Lhat section of country and for issuing the same in formily lo requisitions that may be made you.
Yr Obt Servi Sam Houston Comr in Chief
A True Copy Nart Amory Secy
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[4153] [l\IORGAN to SWARTWOUT]
Galveston Island 5th Sept. 1836.
Mr. Samuel Swartwout New York Dear Sir
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You will receive by the first safe conveyance the lent of Sanla Anna, that vampire who sought to fallen on the life-blood of young liberty in our now blooming land. With that Lent are associated feelings of triumph and horror, the chivalrous efforts of our victorious little band which annihilated al one fell swoop the hydraheaded monster of tyranny on the plains of San Jacinto. The other at the infernal mandates of the deeply crimson pirate issued under the cover of that Lent which traversed through rivers of gore, reckless alike of the ,,,ailings of unprotected womanhood or the manly confidence of the brave soldier in the open prostration of his arms. In that tent slumbered that fiend who under the demon tutelage of his pillow planned and executed the foul massacres and ruthless murders of the Alamo and Goliad and then sat at noonday the slick hypocrit upon whose lips hung the words of promised mercy, but who signal immolated to his indomitable spirit of desolation. Nearly in his presence died the brave Fannin and his worthy compatriots, whose blood flowed even while the echo of mercy vibrated in their ears. But now while the monster withers under the ruthless blast of recognition, the tree of liberty overshadowing our fertile plains. Oh, what an antithesis, the foul den of the furious tiger and the unsullied abode of peace and honor, the one a memorial of valor in trepiclily and a nations benison, the other of dishonor, perfidy and execration. J arncs Morgan
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