influence in Mexico & procuring means & preserving the credit of Texas keeping her free from debt. We have some gentlemen however who are engaged in preaching a crusade through the country against all Mexicans & in favour of immediate declaration of independence procuring signatures of volunteers & travelers who have not been three days in the country The slavish printer of Brazoria does not publish anything without the inspection & sanction of those men when they are in his reach Of this we have facts conclusive to prove it. I am not one of those who claims any special privileges for having lived on poor due & layed on the ground but I realy think a few months residence should be necessary before men should be so very active & warm in pointing out to the people what course to pursue If we are people of ordinary intelligence such presumption is insulting to our understanding & If we have not such intelligence we do not deserve to be informed by strangers, for we would have lo have a prompter at our elbows all the time & we would constantly run into error Mexia received almost direct insult from some of our citizens, & not receiving any communication from that Govt mortified him intensely yet he said nothing was a burthen to him in sustaining the cause of constitutional principles against Centralism. If I can spare time I will try & come up in a few days; very respectfully your obt sevt
Thos F. McKinney
[1649] [MILLARD to BARRETT]
Washington Deer 29th 1835
Private Dear Col
Having accidently come into possession of information which materially interests the Genl council and the heads of government, I will endeavor to communicate in as few words as possible the critical situation in which I believe your hounorable body lo be now placed-and advise you with sincerity for the good of our country and cause, in which you are now labouring to remove from that place with all possible dispatch before the storm bursts upon your heads for I mean from the disorganisers, some of
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