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Velasco, Texas, 23rd December, 1835.
My dear father:-
The die is cast. I am over the Rubicon and my fate is now inseparably connected wilh that of Texas. I have resolved to stand by her Lo the last and in a word, to sink or swim wilh her. Permit me to entreat you to suffer no unnecessary uneasiness about my situation. From what I have learned since my arrival here, I do no1 consider the service extraordinarily dangerous. We have to contend with a mercenary foe who has no other inducement to fight than the hope of gain, and who is moreover, taught from his infancy, lo dread the very name of North American. San Antonio de Bexar has been carried by assault and Gen. Cos and six or seven hundred of his men are now prisoners to the gallant Texians, who so nobly sustained the honor of their country on that occasion. Several other engagements have occurred in all of which, the invincible Yankees triumphed and invariably with inconsiderable loss. There is now not a single Mexican soldier within the borders of Texas, exclusive of prisoners. The people have organized a provisional government and appointed a Governor, Lieut Governor and Legislative Council, with the other requisite functionaries. Their authority is to cease in March nesl when the General Consultalion of all Texas is t meet and constitute some more permanent form of Government. All is confusion,-but many warm hearts and wise heads are energetically engaged in reducing this chaos to order and we hope ere long, to see Texas enjoying all the advantages and blessings of a firm and stable administration of such laws as the wisdom of her rulers may suggest. She is now a disjointed fragment of the Republic of Mexico, and Lhe blood of thousands will be shed, ere the haughty tyrant of that worse than despotism, again rivets his chains upon free born Americans. I have been appointed Adjutanl of a Regiment with Lhe assurance that the Commission of Lieutenant and Adjutant will be issued lo me in a few days. In order to make this respectable situation secure to me, I hope my dear Father, you will make a liLLlc exertion and procure me the recommendations of Gen Baldwin, Col. Peyton, Wm. Kinney, Esq., Erasmus Stribling, Thos.
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