the hands of hundreds of capitalists who will feel as much interest in Texas and exert themselves as much for it, as those of us, who have long lived there. To prove this the lenders have offered to land in Texas within six weeks five hundred men officered, armed, and equipped to serve during the war on the terms of the military laws of the provisional government and convention, and after the war to receive pay for the cosls of their arms and oulfil wilh interest in the mean time at 8 pr. cent on the amount (with the option of being paid on the basis of this loan as an addition to it) from their arrival in Texas. This is the true way to obtain troops To undertake to receive them here, and pay their way to Texas is now imposible-We have not the means, and it is an open violation of the laws of this country, than which nothing could more effectually injure our cause. Let volunteers not be recognised untill they have presented themselves to the governor or commander in chief. A sufficient number will do this at their own expense. A man must have lived to Little advantage, and will not be of much force when he joins us, if he be not able to spend thirty or forty dollars to gel to Texas, especially when he will be paid for gun, horse etc. on his arrival. All grants of land or certificates of citizenship or reception hereafter to those who are not now in Texas or who have not already acquired rights should be made with a special reservation of the priority of location stipulated for the four hundred thousand acres contracted away by this loan, and it should be so published and mentioned in the certificate that no body be deceived. Disposing of our land at fifty cents pr. acre for the purpose of getting money so particularly indispensable at this moment, appears to us very fortunate In fact rather than have missed the loan, we has better borrowed the money for five years and given them the lands in the bargain. We are of the opinion that in the next convention a stop should be put to granting league and quarter league tracts to all who come after that date, for otherwise the country will be taken up enlirely before we have volunteers enough, and besides the pay and rations of the United States with a premium of six hundred and forty acres, will induce just as many to come We respectfully suggest this, as what we would endeavor to do were we of the next convention The information from Mexico recd. here is, that the leading men of the federal party have united with Santana to invade Texas; consequently the position taken by the declaration of 7 November in favor of the republican principles of the constitution of 1824 can no longer do any good, the object of that declaration ha,·ing been to extend light and liberty over Mexico, and thus secure the
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