for our government and is at this time doing every thing for our credit & interest. I hope the Government will act promptly in this matter and not estimate too closely shillings & pence-the enemies are upon our country and must be expelled at all hazards or all is lost. Permit me to congratulate our country upon her prospects of succour from her mother country-Your declaration of independence, your sensible constitution, your common sense and tangible Laws, your liberal administration of those Laws, together with the savage and inhuman conduct of our enemies, all operate to do us much service & I firmly believe, every thing necessary to the establishment and confirmation of our independence. Universal indignation at our treatment has fired the people of our Native land from this place to the falls of the Ohio, and with means in this city to forward recruits to the seat of War, as they may arrive here I venture my judgment & standing as a Gentleman and as a Soldier that in 60 days from this time we will have sufficient force not only lo take the prairie with our enemy, but to follow him home if necessary. I have made several valuable appointments of officers in Tennessee & elsewhere, for our service, whose influence will bring into the field most active efficient force, and am at this time waiting the return of the 1000 Volunteers from this place to the Florida War, many of whom we have strong hopes of enlisting in our honourable cause-It requires my active & constant exertion to enlist & provide means for this expectation as money is at present worth 3 per. cent pr. month. I have to day offered my private responsibility & mortgage upon ample real estate as security for our government for $50,000 with which sum I believe I can march into our country fifteen hundred men in a short time. Mr. Thomas Toby & Brothers, to day informed me they will be able to send most of the articles you have ordered for the Army, which as I promised the Government I will attend to. I am most respectfully your obt. humb. Sevt Th. Jef. Green. Brig. Genl. of the Texas Army.
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