command, but the field-officer next in rank to himself. Then, who is Dr. Grant? Is he nol a Scothman, who has resided in Mexico for the lasl Len years? does he not own large possessions in the interior? has he ever taken the oath to support the organic law? is he not deeply interested in the hundred-league claims of land which hang like a murky cloud over the people of Texas? is he not the man who impressed the properly of the people of Bexar? is he nol the man who took from Bexar, without authority, or knowledge of the government, cannon and othe;munitions of war, together with supplies necessary for the troops at that station, leaving the wounded and the sick destitute of needful comforts? Yct this is the man whose outrages and oppressions upon Lhe rights of the people of Texas are sustained and justified by the acts and conduct of the general council! Several members of that body are aware that the interests and feelings of Dr. Grant are opposed lo the independence and true interests of the people of Texas. While every facility has been afforded to the meditated campaign against Matamoras, no aid has been rendered for raising a regular force for the defence of the country, nor one cent advanced to an officer or soldier of the regular army, but every hinderance thrown in the way. The council had no right lo project a campaign against any point or place. It was the province of the governor, by his proper officers, lo do so. The council had the right of consenting or rejecting, but not of projecting. The means ought to be placed at the disposition of the governor; and if he, by himself, or his officers, failed in their application, while he would be responsible for the success of the armies of Texas, he could be held responsible to the government, and punishable: but what recourse has the country upon agents who have taken no oath, and given no bonds lo comply with the powers granted by the council? The organic law declares, in article third, that "the governor and general council have power to organize, reduce, or increase, the regular forces;" but it delegates no power to create army-agents, to supercccle the commander-in-chief, as will be seen by reference to the second article of the "military" basis of that law. After declaring that there shall be a regular army for the protection of Texas during the present war, in the first article, it proceeds in the second to stale the constituents of that army: "The regular army of Texas shall consist of one major-general, who shall be commancler- in-chief of all the forces called into public service during the war." This, it will be remembered, is a law from which the council derive their powers; and, of course, all troops in service since the adoption of this law, and all that have been accepted, or to be accepted
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