well satisfied and it ,vill never be a cause of complaint to me that others may wear the laurels.- On the 17th. Deer. last I addressed a letter to his Excellency the Governor-relative to the condition of the Army at 13exar then under my command in which communication I enclosed a list of the. officers-requesting for them Commissions agreeably lo your ordinance and in accordance with requests previously made to my two predecessors that such should be clone-I could not but suppose that the request was made in candor especially as Genl. Burleson and the Officers under him were commissioned upon application.- Those officers having resigned new ones were appointed-but although I as commanding officer certified the fact no commissions were given them. Why this has been the case I am unable to say.-I know of no offence committed by myself or the officers and men under my command, unless it was that in opposition lo the wishes of many both out of the Army and in the field we dared to attempt the storm of Bexar and victoriously planted our standard on its walls.- The Volunteers who had appointed me to the command were of Texas & men from the United States who had come here for no other purpose than to aid the cause of Texas.-They would not join the regular army and as there was no immediate call for their services and they were anxious to be engaged in active operations and having received the official directions of the Military Committee of the date of the 16th. Utmo. requesting that a march on Malemoros might be made. I yielded to their desires and ordered a march on Matemoros.-In this as in all other acts of my public Life I had solely the interest of the Country at heart and was unwilling that Matemoros should be taken until I had commissions from your body for the officers-I considered that with commissions from your body-their acts would be those of Texas and the army subject to your orders-and as such when Matemoros was taken that the public property would be yours and the revenue sufficient in a short lime to defray the heavy expense the war has created.- Without Commissions my detachment would be necessarily com- pelled to act under color of authority from some Mexican authority and consequently on the fall of Matemoros the public properly and revenue and place itself would fall into the hands of the liberal Mexicans and not yours and by that means Texas would loose the benefit arising from the possession of the place and also an actual amount of money arising from the Customs sufficient to pay our public deht a matter of great importance at this timc.-~lowcl by these considerations I proceeded to this place and on the 3rd. Inst.
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