camp, as his services as a spy cannot well be dispensed with. All of which is transmiLted lo your honorable body for its information, and corresponding effecls, by your
Obedient servant, Henry Smith, Governor.
December 23d, 1835.
[1601)
[WARD et al to FANNIN]
To Col. J. W. Fannin:
Sir:-In compliance with a resolution adopted al a meeting of the commissioned and non-commissined officers of the Georgia battalion, we beg leave, in the name of that meeting, to tender its unfeigned and heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and cordiality with which you have been pleased lo greet us and our companions in arms upon the shores of Texas. Be assured, sir, that a welcome from any other source, however kind or respectable, could not have given rise to prouder feelings. As Americans we hail you as the champion of Liberty! As Georgians we hail you as a brother, and recur with pleasing sensations to the home of your and our nativity. When first we knew and admired you, actuated by that inborn love of liberty and detestation of tyranny, peculiar to the American character, and recently so eminently developed in you, we paused not to calculate the cost, but with arms in bands, at once resolved to unite with our brethren of Texas, and share their destiny. And although, sir, it constituted the zenith of our ambition, as the sons of Georgia, to add to that bright star in the American confederacy, the honor of having acted a companion's part in the cause of suffering Texas, yet we were unconscious of the fat, until since we left home, that our wishes in that regard, were in a great measure realized, and that Georgia's honor and chivalry stood proudly vindicated in your person. The intelligence met us, and, like a beacon of light, al once cheered our hopes and illuminated our pathway. 13ul, without being unnecessarily tedious, the undersigned beg leave in conclusion lo assure you not only in behalf of the meeting we represent, but of the "Georgia battalion" generally, that it is deeply sensible lo the kind partialtiy which you have exhibited for the State we claim lo represent, in
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