lo follow as volunteers bu l not as regular enlisted soldiers of the army they would beg leave to suggest the great necessity of receiving them and proceeding on the march to Copano immediately as we consider that a point above all others that should be immediately fortified and and we are certain that with two companies of volunteers we can fortify it sufficiently to repel nearly any force that may be brought against us-We beg leave to subscribe ourselves
Respectfully your obl Servts. J. M. Allen Capt regular Army Texas J. Chenoweth Capt Volunteer Company
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[Stephen F. Austin, Quintana, to James F. Perry, Peach Point, December 25, 1835, concerning disposition of his financial affairs, laying off a town at Quintana, and repaying those who aided him while he was imprisoned in Mexico.] [16121 [AUSTIN to ROYALL] Quintana, December 25, 1835. Dear Sir: The affairs of Texas are more entangled than 1 suspected they were. While the real friends of the country have been laboring in good faith for the general good of all, a few men, an unprincipled party, have clanned together lo get possession of the public affairs to promote their own aims of ambition and personal aggrandizement. There has been much low intrigue, and amongst others I have been deceived and treated with Lad faith. My whole thoughts and soul were devoted to the common cause of Texas, and I could not suffer even my suspicions to descend so low as to suppose that there were individuals who could be influenced by any other motives than purely patriotic ones. I ought lo have known better, but I was unwilling lo believe that so much bad faith and political dishonesty and low intrigues existed
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