however, is marching on in person with all the force he can collect lo anihilate us. We have no fears, but we must be ready for him. We need all the aid we can gel in men and money, provisions, arms and ammunition. Large contributions have been made in the United States for the extension of Christianity over the South Sea Islands by means of Missionary societies. ls not our cause quite as important and sacred? We are trying lo banish from our homes religious intolerance and despotism, and to establish in the place of it, liberty and freedom of conscience. How many thousands of pious families of all denominations might find a home and become the proprietors of the soil in Texas-the best soil and climate accessible to north Americans-if religious toleration were once firmly rooted there! Religion, morality, the arts and sciences, the great sources of liberty-which is in fact, the cause of mankind-all unite in calling upon the free, the generous, the enterprising and the pious, to step forward in aid of Texas. We expect aid from the religious portion of the community, and that the pulpit will pour out its fervent prayers lo a just God for his blessing on our endeavors, and send its eloquent voice to the people in the cause of all free churches-the cause of truth and justice. Our fate will probably be decided in three months. Santanna is making a great effort. If he fail, it must be his last. Now is the time to aid us-now is the time of salvation. We need everything-provisions and money-and men well armed, officered, and provided. Their expenses will all be refunded at the close of the war, with interest, besides donalions in land, The opening is a great one, if it were only a matter of speculation-it is glorious in its cause. A new republic is about to rear its independent banner over a country but lately a wilderness- There is magnificence in the idea-properity freedom and glory in the results. We shall slop one day at Louisville. I should like much to visit Lexington. some of my much cherished schoolmates and companions of happy days still reside there: john ~lcCalla, Pierce Iluller the Todds etc. please remember me to them. Tell my Cousins E and H I hope it will not be long before they can live in Texas with such comforts as they merit. If we wratlter the storm unlill June all will end well and prosp1'.rously. I have 110 doubt we shall, for we rely on aid from the 1wople of tlw L!.S.-but it mu~t be prompt.
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