mercenaries of Santa Anna have nothing to expect but death or sickness. Our citizens fight for their homes and families secure of success. 8th. Now citizens your Govt exhorts each and every one after placing his family in security to fly and succour his country in the moment of danger. We are sure of success if we do not abandon our brethren in the field and we will disgrace our country if we are deaf to this call. [2581] [GAINES to ARBUCKLE AND VOSE] [Edmund P. Gaines, Natchitoches, to Arbuckle and Vose, Fort Gibson and Fort Towson, Arkansas, April 5, 1836, ordering them to prevent both Texans and Mexicans from crossing the boundary in arms, and to keep United States Indians from joining in the Texan distrubance.] [2582) [GREEN to PUBLIC) ' To The Friends of Liberty Throughout The World! It has pleased the government of my adopted country to transfer me, a volunteer citizen soldier in her cause, to my present responsible station, and order me to my native country, to ask for, ·and procure by any lawful, rightful and honourable measure, means of prosecuting our war of National and Religious Emancipation, against a cruel and unrelenting Tyranny. And shall it be told me, that my native country, lest it should give offence to a people whose manners, customs and language are unknown to her, will be forced to an act of inhumanity and injustice to her own offspring?- No! I will believe it not!- I cannot believe that the country's whose heart and purse bled so freely for Poland and Greece- the country which has been the home of the brave, and the asylum of the oppressed of all nations!- the country which has ever watched and watered with tender care, Liberty's young growth al home and abroad. That, that same people will now lend a deaf ear to our supplications- our unavoidable and absolute wants. To believe it, would be a gross and wanton slander of the character which has so justly placed her in the foremost rank of Nations of the Earth. To believe it, would be to charge her with a low selfishness, unknown to her high and generous spirit. To believe it, would be to brand her of a poor cowardice which none dare say- I come, then freemen of
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