wish I was with him engaged in active Operations: but no, I believe I am here at my post of duty altho a dangerous one, the occupying of which have exposed me to every kind of attack from the enemies of Texas, but which I trust I shall be able to surmount. Mr. Holman has just arrived from St Felipe and delivered to me a package containing a report of the Committee on the Judiciary on the subjects referred to it from this place their report is an excellent one and does credit to the Chairman it places matters as they really are and the Government has been pleased to give the necessary power to carry the Articles of the Provisional Government into effect. I shall immediately send an express for Dr. Everett and l\'lr. Smith to come to town and aid me in attending to the duties enjoined, we shall have some trouble in adjusting the difficult matters committed ·to us. I regret that a person in General Houstons Staff I mean J K. Allen should have been the most bitter opposer of the Government. of another Individual of that Staff, I could say much-I have been very busily engaged in attending to numerous Volunteers from the States fifty two of whom wilJ leave here tomorrow for the frontier almost all are Gentlemen of the best respectability and mostly hailing from Tennessee They have come to fight the battles of Texas and maintain its rights, and while here have pledged themselves to sustain the Council against the speculators who have been tampering with them. I have had the honor of administering the oath of allegiance to them the Celebrated David Crockett is of the number. I would recommend to your particular attention Captn. Kimble, Major Autry, and Major Gilmore I hear that these are on the road for this place. I trust that hereafter the Volunteers will take the route by sea to Matagordo or Copono, as Provisions are scarce, I do wish sincerely I had the opportunity of seeing and conversing with you in relation to many things of importance, and in especial to some matters alluded to in your letters you can fully command me in all things
from your sincere friend John Forbes
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