your countrymen, drive back your enemy and sa,,e yourselves from everlasling infamy and disgrace. Your enemy is marching through your country. You have boasted of your ability Lo conquer him-people are flocking from the U.S. to your assistance and wh:re are you? It pains me lo say many, very many of you are flymg before your enemy, a contemptible enemy, whom the people of Texas, if they would rally, could exterminate at one fell swoop from the face of an earth which they polute and disgrace. Will you continue to do so-will you permit the deaths of your murdered countrymen to go unavenged-,vill you abandon helpless women and children to their fate-,vill you desert the principles of liberty? You entail upon yourselves and your children eternal infamy and disgrace, if you will not march at once to the field, join the army now on the line of march to meet the enemy, and conquer him, or die nobly in the cause of liberty and their country. Your fellow citizen Thomas J. Rusk Secy. at War [2749) [SANTA ANNA to FILISOLA] Since the army's operations. should not cease, I have decided to leave for Harrisbourg with one section, where the principal leaders of the rebellion are located, and to which place the so-called General Houston is marching with the band which he has and which he calls the "Army of Texas." While I am executing this, and other forays, to the banks . of the Trinity River, your Excellency will remain al this place, so that you can order General Don Martin P. Cos to go to Fort Velasco with the purpose of taking possession of such an important point; for which purpose your Excellency will place at his command five hundred infantrymen, the two [artillery] pieces of 8 [eight-pounders], and a howitzer, with their supply of munitions, artillerymen, thirty boxes of rifle cartridges and one thousand flint-locks, a sufficient number of fortification sacks, and trench-making tools, with Lieutenant Colonel D. Pedro Ampudias croincr in command of the artillery. . " " Army of Operations Most Excellent Senor:
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