[2079] [McKJNNEY to BRYAN ET AL]
New Orleans, February 13th, 1836.
To the Government of Texas,
Gentlemen-Having witnessed the grand necessity of keeping your Agents, in this place, amply protected; and learning you have funds here, I take one moment lo recomment that those funds, say $10,000, be placed in a condition that your Agents here can use them. Without them, their credit and that of our country must suffer. I have been very often and earnestly requested to examine their books and accounts, which I will do before leaving, and have no doubt will find all satisfactory. They are indefatigable to my own knowledge. I also need money, but they need it more, because the country will suffer if they do not get it. I wiU work out my own salvation. In much haste,
Your obedient Servant, Thomas F. McKinney.
[To William Bryan and Agents]
[2080) [POLLARD to SMITH]
Hospital Bejar Feb. 13th, 1836. Excellent Sir: I am glad to learn that you are in good health and spirits.-Be assured Sir that the country will sustain you.-We are unanimous in your favor here and determined to have nothing to do with that corrupt council.-ll is my duty to inform you that my department is nearly destitute of medicine and in the event of a siege I can be very little use lo the sick under such circumstances-I have plenty of instruments with the exception of a trcphining-case, some catheters and an injection syringe which would complete this slalion.-1 write you this because I suppose the Surgeon general not to be in the country and we arc threatened with a large invading army.-Four Mexicans are to represent this Jurisdiction in Lhe convenlion although we might with great case have sent the same number of Americans, had it not have been that a few of our people through Mexican policy perfectly hoodwinked headquarters, making them b~licve that it was unjust lo allempl to send any other than Mexicans,
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