Biv 27 1835 to Jan 13 1835 - PTR, Vol. 3

necessary and proper means are withheld from me so must my responsibility be diminished. Permit me lo implore you most earnestly lo give your attention to the Subjects herein very respectfully Submilled. Sam Houston Comcl in Chief of the Army [ J3951 (MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPORT] [December 6, 1835] The Commillee lo whom was refered the application of Col. Sandoval lo proceed lo the army near Bejar respectfully submi L the following Report & Resolution:- A crisis having arrived in the affairs and political condition of Texas, decidedly the most important that ever has been or probably will be again lo us-Already an enemy, much superior in numbers, is in arms, within the borders of our Stale, whose known and avowed object is lo force us lo submit lo the most oppressive and lyranical Laws or drive us from the country-The free institutions of our country are overturned and trampled under fool by the Usurper and Spostale, who now commands the forces garrisoned in Bejar, as well, as those of all Mexico. Our struggle is the struggle of Liberty against Despotism! With such fearful odds, we can not be loo cautious in all our movements. Our numbers are few; our means lo supp·orl an army is limited: We have lo depend upon foreign aid and foreign Capital if the war should be a protracted one. A large and respectable portion of the people of Texas are already crying out for a declaration of Independence. The attempt made of the Ruling Powers of Mexico lo oppress and enslave al the point of the bayonet the people of Texas, has already driven them to arms. We have declared lo the other Stales of the Mexican Govt. and lo the world, that we are "free and Sovriegn." Let us then lake such steps and adopt such measures, as will support that declaration. Our liberty, our fortunes and our sacred honour is periled in the present contest. The Mexican people and the Anglo-Americans in Texas never can be one and the same people. A civil compact can never bind together long people who differ so widely in their pursuits, their religion, their Lc111guages and their ideas of civil liberty. The duties which devolve

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