the law. If they are not made this department will be always kept in the dark in regard lo the state of the Army. No person is officially known to this deparlment as Inspector Genl. should Col. Hockley be in lhe Army and in the discharge of the duties of that office, please inform me and let me know from what period his commission should date. Perhaps then one of the officers now in the army who are entitled to commissions also have not got them, in thal case it would be well for you lo apply for them, giving the requisite information. I again call your attention to order no. 3 and request that you will be in particular that the time for which each is enrolled will be expressly stated; as I do not wish any person in the service for an indeffinite period.
Your ob. st. Jno. A. Wharton Sec of War
J4207] [MORFIT to FORSYTH]
Texas, September 14, 1836. Sir: I intended any further communication about the country to have been left for a personal inlerview; but as there were several points which, though not strictly within my inquiries; were blended in my notes as exhibiting the views of citizens here upon interesting questions, I have thought it best to transcribe the whole in the form in which they stand. The revolutionary history of Texas, as far as it has been published, is erroneous in the ascription of important measures to wrong periods of time, and in misstating the order of its progress. From an original journal of the proceedings of the delegates in my possession, being the only one in the country, it appears that after the destruction laws, and when the news reached Columbia that their citizens had been illegally imprisoned, the people of that jurisdiction held a meeting in August, 1835, and various resolutions were adopted, declaring that they would resist \\~th force and arms any attempt to deliver their fellow-citizens into the hands of the mililary, and inviting the inhabitants of the different municpalities lo elect delegates to devise measures for the relief of Texas. This was the first public act towards a separation from l\'lexico. The delegates were appointed, and on the
472
Powered by FlippingBook