place, should appoint some common agent to receive the loans, and hold them subject to my order, and to transmit the list to me. On my receiving the list, the certificates shall be made out, and they shall be delivered to the agent at the Lime the money may be called for. The lists shall be receipted by me, and deposited in the archives of the government of Texas, as perpetual memorials of the timely aid afforded to the cause of liberty and humanity by a magnanimous people. I have now fully opened to you the nature of our struggle and the aid we solicit. Those who make advances, will run no risk, for I do not entertain a doubt of our success; and this conviction is derived, not from the excitement of enthusiasm not the bias of interest; but it is the result of cool and dispassionate calculation based upon our situation and resources, the advantages we possess over our enemies, the nature of the country, the difficulties under which they must labor in a very short time, and my intimate knowledge (gained by ten years acquaintance,) of their character, their resources, their tactics, their mode of making war, a11d the difference of the materials of which our armies and theirs are composed. Besides, volunteers are flocking to our relief from every quarter, and will still continue to come; for if the descendants of the illustrious Miltiades, Cimon and Epaminondas, after having borne in uncomplaining silence and submission for ages, the yoke of the fierce and tyrannic Musselman, have excited the sympathies of the religious and irreligious, of monarchal Europe and republican America, and attracted to their cause the fortune and the splendid talents of a Byron; and if the American revolution founded on an abstract principle of right, drew forth the approbation of Europe; and relief from beyond the seas, and brought to our forefathers the wealth and services, the magnanimity and the virtues of a La Fayette, can it be belie,•ed that the Descendants of a Washington and a Franklin, fighting in defence of their liberties which they never have suffered to be trampled upon for a moment, will be left unaided to be exterminated by the murderous hirelings of tyranny and fanaticism in sight of a gallant and free people upon whom they call with the endearling names of fellow countrymen and brothers? No, hundreds of La Fayettes will rush lo the field, over which the triple banner of Justice, Freedom and Civilization proudly waves in opposition to the ancient allies, Despotism,
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