[3835] [CHA~IBERS to PUBLIC]
[-July 1836]
Ma!!nanimous & chivalrous sons of the West: 0 • Texas is again invaded by a ruthless and sanguinary foe, and she renews her call to the brave and the free, lo aid her in her noble struggle, and to participate in the glory of sustaining the principles of civil and religious liberty, against tyranny and fanaticism. The Texians are again taught the folly of relying upon any stipulations with a fallen wretch who has so often violated his plighted faith, and whose soul is stained with the blood of his own breathren and countrymen, and of your brethren and countrymen, whom he could not conquer in the field, but who fell victims to his false pledges, perfidity, and inhuman barbarity. He is fallen, and the doom of the perfidious murderer and paricide is pending over him, but the war has not terminated by his fall. He was but the creature and the instrument of a party. That party still lives, and the object of those who compose it is, to sweep from the nation every vestige of civil liberty, and to establish upon the ruins of the Federal Constitution, an absolu le military and ecclesiastical despotism. The wrath of the party has not been roused against the Texians on account of their rebellious spirit and ingratitude, as it has been alledged; for they were ever faithful to their oaths, and constant in their adhesion t_o Mexico, until they were driven from her by a wanton and unprovoked invasion. It is not to recover the fair region they inhabit that the myridons of tyranny are sent against them, for the Mexicans have never known how to appreciate itsvalue. It is liberty that the party fear-it is the contagious and all-prevading influence of North American liberty that they seek lo counteract and destroy; and extermination is the the [sic] means by which they propose to effect it. The cause of Texas is not an isolated one peculiar to herself; it is the cause of human liberty; it is the cause of all mankind. To prove the sincerity of Texas in the mighty struggle in which she is engaged, and her determination and ability to sustain it, it would only be necessary to point to the Alamo and to San Jacinto. But desirous of bringing the contest to a speedy termination, and of settling and cultivating ,her immense vacant
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