Barrett-said account &c is here shown & accompanies this report- The above is a correct report of the action of the committee of Finance appointed by a Resolution of the Genl council-and the copies & receipts enclosed will serve as vouchers & also to explain- Wyatt Hanks 24th Jan. 1836 Chaim Finance Committee [1908] [HAWKINS lo ROBINSON]
Bexar Jany. 24th. 1836
My dear and excellent Sir
You will perceive by the express which leaves here lo day, that we may in a short Lime expect stormy gales from Mexico; Thal Santa Anna has proscribed every individual without distinction of age or sex, from the Grande to the Sabine. He will be warmly received and nobly encountered, and find that to Conquer Mexicans is one thing, but Americans another, if the laller only do their duty by preparing with energy. Let the Locsin of war be only sounded in all the colonies between these two rivers, the menaces of the despot be proclaimed, and every man capable of bearing arms invited into the field, let a copy of the express of lo day be published, and circulated as far as practicable throughout the United States, and Sta. Anna will boast no more, Americans will be triumphant, and Texas Free. Energy and action he the signal note of preparation. So far for our military politics. I understand with insufferable pain that our patriotic first magistrate is threatened with assassination. Accursed and withered be the unhallowed hand that al such a crisis dare be raised agt. him, or at any Lime. Should this be the case Texas is lost forever, and the blood of heroes has been shed in vain. I have been informed that the speculative, disorganizing, Lory party are as vigilant as Argus and as active as Cataline, to make their preparations for swaying the councils of the nation in the next Convention. Men and horses are going night and day to seduce the people Lo their views. Can no measures be adopted to counteract these nefarious designs? If not, Texas is lost. She has more danger to apprehend from internal than external enemies, more from disunion than a hostile foe. Pardon the liberty I have taken in
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