still weaker in power to enforce their orders; we perceived al once that we must look for safety and proper inducements elsewhere. We then turned our eye to the army, and a scene still more disheartening presented itself-undisciplined, and without an cffort to become so-not a roll called nor a drill-no regular encampment-no authority nor obedience-with plundering of their property. We could see nothing to induce us to embark out fortunes and destines with them. With these views and facts we could but sicken and wonder at the vile deceptions which had been practiced upon us; yet we are told that this people had risen up in their might, to vindicate the cause of civil and religious liberty. It is a mockery of the very name of Liberty. They are stimulated by that motive, which such men can only appreciate, the hope of plunder. They are careless of the form of Government under which they live, if that government will tolerate licentiousness and disorder. Such is a brief but we sincerely believe a faithful picture of a country to which we were invited with so much assiduity and such the manner in which we were received and treated. We might multiply facts, in support of each proposition here laid clown, lo show the miserable condition of things in Texas the utter impossibility that a man of honor could embark in such a cause with such men. Should it be rendered necessary, we may yet do so; but for the present we will pause with this remark, that if there be any, now, in Kentucky, whose hearts are animated with the desire of an honorable fame or to secure a competent settlement for themselves or families, they must look to some other lhealTe than the Plains of Texas. We would say to them, listen not to the deceitful and hypocritical allurements of land speculators, who wish you to fight for their benefit and who are as liberal of their promise as they are faithless in performance. We are aware of the responsibility which we incur by this course. We are aware thal we subject ourselves to the misrepresentations of hired agents and unprincipled land mongers. But we are willing to meet it all, relying upon the integrity of our motives and the correctness of our course.- We left our native land our peaceful firesides with a solemn resolution to devote our undivided energies to stop the course of Mexican desolation and build up a free and flourishing Commonwealth. The very fact of our going sufficiently indicates the depth and sincerity of our devotion to the cause. Our return
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