article lo that cffecl was also contained in the firsl protocol, in pencil, submitted by Mr. Rusk lhe Secretary of War. Several days had been employed in this ncgociation and it became necessary for the army lo move its quarters. A multitude of other concerns required the attention of the Civil Government, and a general dispersion from Buffalo bayou ensued. The members of the administration, with General Santa Anna and most of the ~lexican Officers taken in the battle, embarked in lhe steamboat Yellow Stone, for Galveston Island. The army on the same <lay took up its march for Harrisburg. The ~lexican Commissioner, General Wall, was furnished with a safe-conduct from my hand, and with an escort by General Rusk, and sel out for the Mexican camp. The steamboat came to anchor at Galveston about sun down of the same clay, and Santa Anna with his suite, was placed on hoard the armed schooner Independence, under the command of Commodore Hawkins then lying at anchor in the harbor. The en lire want of accomoclation al the Island, rendered it necessary for the government to seek some place where the ordinary office business could he transacted, and Velasco was selected for lha L purpose. Accordingly, in a few days we repaired to Velasco, with the President Santa Anna and his retinue in company. The Vice President had been compelled lo leave us al Buffalo bayou, to attend to his domestic affairs, which had been seriously interrupted by the appropriation of his homestead, to the purpose of a hospital for the wounded in the late battle. The Secretary of the Navy had obtained leave of absence-consequently there were present at Velasco, the Secretary of States, James Collinsworth: the Secretary of the Treasury, Bailey Hardiman; the Sec. of War, W. D. Lamar; the Attorney General, P. W. Grayson, and myself. The negotiation with the President Santa Anna was renewed, and two separate treaties, the one public, and the other secret, agreeably to the suggestion made at Buffalo bayou, were finally concluded and signed by the contracting parties on the 14th May. As I have said before, that treaty, considering the negociation as one, has received an almost universal condemnation by the citizens of Texas. And if I were lo pursue the cautious and perhaps pruclen tial course of some adept politicians, J should defer every effort to vindicate it, from the obloquy so lavishly bestowed upon it, until time shall have assuaged the tumults of passion, and
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