[1942) [SMITH to HOUSTON I
Executive Department of Texas, San Felipe, January 28, 1836. Sir: You are hereby furloughed until the 1st day of .March next, for the purpose of adjusting your private business, preparatory to your necessary absence, hereafter, from home, in the country's service. Your absence is permitted in part by the illegal acts of the council in superseding you, by the unauthorized appointment of agents to organize and control the army, contrary to the organic law, and the ordinances of their own body. In the meantime, you will conform to your instructions, and treat with the Indians. Respectfully yours, &c., Henry Smith, Governor, &c. To General Sam Houston, Commander-inChief of the Army. [1943) [TORNEL to the PUBLIC] [Jose Maria Tomei, Mexico, to the Public, January 28, 1836, stating that any ships found flying the new flag adopted by the Texas colonists will be considered and treated as pirates.] [1944] [TRAVIS to SJVIITH]
Headquarters, Camp at Burnham's, Colorado. Jan. 28, 1836.
To His Excellency, Henry Smith, Governor of Texas:
Sir: In obedience lo my orders, I have done every thing in my power to get ready to march to the relief of Bexar, but owing to the difficulty of getting horses and provisions, and owing to desertions, I shall march to-day with only about thirty men, all regulars except four. I shall, however, go on and do my duty, if I am sacrificed, unless I receive new orders to counlermarch. Our affairs arc gloomy indeed. The people are cold and indifferent. They are worn down and exhausted with the war, and, in consequence of disscntions between contending and rival
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