[2420) [BURNET to GRAY]
Harrisburg 25th March 1836
F. C. Gray Esqr. Sir
The Government is temporarily located at this place, and, in probability, will remain here until a permanent establishment is made by Congress. It is very desirably to have the facility of a press at this place; and I am induced to solicit your removal here with your entire printing establishment. The Government will assure you their entire business, and will contribute all in their power to render your papers, not only conducive to the public convenience, but profitable to yourself. The expenses of transportation will be defrayed by the Government. Should this proposition meet your views, you will be pleased to remove as early as practicable.
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant David G. Burnet
[2421] [BURNET ORDER]
[March 25,1836] The situation of Texas imperiously demands, that her utmost possible energies, be put in requisition, and that every man unless actually incapacitated by age or infirmity do immediately take the field, and repel the audacious invader, who has been too long permitted to desolate our country. Unity of action, and prompt enegetic action, is necessary to our salvation, from an odious and detestable tyranny, or from an inglorious extirpation from the land we have so long laboured to culivate and reclaim from barbarism. Experience has demonstrated that an entire unity of action cannot be had by the ordinary operation of the law, that many men are found among us, who arc willing lo rest quietly at home, while their more noble and patriotic fellow citizens, are sustaining all the burden and difficulty of the war. These men
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