[2028) [COUNCIL to PEASE I
Council Hall San Felipe February 6th 1836
We, the undersigned. President and members of the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas, having been informed by E. M. Pease Esqr. Secretary of said Council, of his intention to resign his office on account of private business and private engagements, have remonstrated with him of the impropriety of this measure in Consequence of the distracted State of the Government, from a belief that his Continued Services are absolutely necessary in arranging and digesting the Journals and proceedings of the Council preparatory to a public expose which should give a full view of the truth and correctness of all thyprocecdings of this Body. We arc gratified to slate that a sense of Honour and duty to his Country has induced Mr. Pease to rclinguish all private and personal considerations for the higher and paramount demands of Freedom and his Country's Cause John McMullan Pres. Pro Tem of General Council
D. C. Barrett G. A. Pattillo Alexr Thomson J. D. Clements
[2029) [EDWARDS STATEMENT]
Committee Room, Nacadochcs, February, 6, 1836. Col. Haden Edwards, being desirous of making every effort to aid the cause of Texas, in her struggle against the despot Santa Anna, requests the sanction of the Committee of Vigilcnce, and Safety of Nacogdoches lo the follwoing resolutions: Be it Resolved by the Committee of Vigilence and Safety of the town of Nacogdoches, that the said Colonel Harden Edwards be pcrmillcd, and hereby requested to proceed to the United States of the North, to solicit from the fair sex of our mother country, donations for the purpose of raising a Battalion or Regiment of men, to b1: known by the name of "Ladies Battalion or Rcg:imt•nt", as_the donations may justify, taking the names of the Lady donors. With the sums advanced annexed to their names, to be hereafter prcscrv<:cl on parchment to be suspended at each end of a banq11t'l,
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