carry it out are to be left Lo the arbitration and pmdcncc of the same Most Excellent Commander-in-Chief. 3rd The Government will consider the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief in determining the place or places to which those wishing to remain in the Republic arc to be assigned. 4th The opinion of the Commander-in-Chief will he determined before reducing the period of confinement for those legally introduced colonists comprehended in article two of the preceding law. 5th The Most Excellent President and Commander-in-Chief of the Army may delegate the powers granted him upon the division commanders as he sees fit. 6th His Excellency will order the pardoned to be issued a document attesting to the absolution granted them in accordance with this law. He will also order a personal description to be made of the exiled so they may be recognized if they return to the Republic. 7th If the exiled carry out a re-entree, the act will be considered an aggravating circumstance to their crime which will be judged in accordance with the law. God and Liberty; 14th of April, 1836. Tornel (2764) [AUSTIN to JACKSON] To Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, John Forsyth, Lewis Cass, T. H. Benton, and to any member of the Cabinet or Congress of all parties and all sections of the United Stales: New York, April 15, 1836. Pardon me for this intrusion upon your valued time. I address you as individuals, as men, as Americans, as my countrymen. I obey an honest though excited impulse. We have recent dates from Mexico by the Packet. It appears that Santana has succeeded in uniting the whole of the Mexicans against Texas by making it a national war against heretics; that an additional army of 8000 men is organizing in Mexico under Gen. Cortazar lo march to Texas and exterminate the heretic Americans. Santana is now in Texas, as we all know, with about 7000 men fighting under the bloody flag of a pirate-he is exciting the Comanches and other [ndians, who know
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