not the precise language used: "There is a deep-laid plan lo confuse me, and my government; but I am aware of all their movements, and have anticipated them, and will counteract them_ The opposition are strong and have money and means, and my council are needy and corrupt. They are engaged in it." In speaking of the labor he has to encounter, and difficulty he has to undergo, he very patriotically alludes to the late volunteer army of Texas, composed mostly of the free citizens of Texas; and, as far as I am informed and believe, of as good, if not the best men in the country, in the following strain; "A Mob,nick-named an army, has just been disbanded amongst us, and I am threatened with assassination by an internal enemy at home," (the mob volunteer army,)" and an external enemy from abroad." Who the external enemy is, we are left to conjecture only: probably Santa Anna himself may be in disguise and playing the "incog," lo accomplish the downfall of the government, which certainly would be finished if "His Excellency" should go by the board. He is the Government, and no better sacrifice can be offered al the shrine of Centralism, than his blood: and the illustrious hero of Tampico will, most unquestionably, make all reasonable efforts to perform the wondrous feat and thereby .enthrone himself in the hearts, and affections, and fears of admiring countrymen. But His Excellency continues; "I am fully apprised of their designs, and wilJ entangle them in their own works, and ere long, throw them a fall which will break their own Damned Necks, and they shall we) ter in their Own Blood." This language is used in reference to the Free Citizens, Volunteers of Texas, who turned out without orders or organization, to meet and repel an invading enemy, and sustained the honor and fame of the American Character, and have driven from our borders four limes their number of regulars, and them well armed and equipped, with artillery, cavalry, &c., and with loss of only five men in killed. This is the "unkindest cul of all," and I am forced to say has been the sole cause of my noticing the communication al present, though the base slander against the representatives of their very volunteers, is an uncalled-for as it is false and unjust, not. lo say, undignified.
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