blaze upon the subject. So great is the interest felt upon this subject and so numerous are the applications upon Lhe Subject, that lo do all the writing required and to keep copies of aU relating to the public affairs requires more writing Lhan any one or two men can do. We have therefore been under the necessity of employing upon our own responsibility a Secretary to the Mission, whose services will be especially wanting when we reach Washington, as we shall have to carry on a very immense correspondence with the Government of the United States, the Government of Texas, and with Secretaries of public meetings, committees, individuals and Editors of Newspapers in every part of the United States; many of these communications will be of such importance that we musl of course take copies of the official ones especially. We have engaged a young gentleman of fine qualifications to act in this capacity who will proceed with us to Washington. He has visited Texas, and intends to become a permanent resident of our country. We have told him that the first Congress . would, in our opinion, approrpiale an adequate remuneration for his services. This however, will be left entirely with the Government. His services we need. I met at Natchitoches, Col. Waterson of Tennessee, bearing a communication from Genl. Richard G. Dunlop of this State, proposing to bring from Tennessee a force of two thousand men, provided he would have the rank he now has in Tennessee. Genl. Dunlop is now here, and I believe that from his influence and popularity in the State, and from the present state of feeling existing, that he can raise from two to five thousand men if he had the funds to transport them to Texas. A Tennessee Army would give confidence to the friends of the cause throughout the United States and would carry terror to the heart of the Dictator himself. You will have seen his proposition before you receive this and as I have no doubt that it will be accepted by your Excellency and Cabinet, I have induced Genl. D. to proceed in the execution of the plan, and I wish your Excellency and the Cabinet to write me immediately on the receipt of this to Washington City, and inform me whether, if we succeed in our pecuniary negotiations at New York, Mr. Hamilton and I could take the responsibility of advancing a sufficient sum to Genl. Dunlop to transport the Tennessee Troops to the seat of war. Please address Genl. Dunlop also wilh regard to the whole matter at this place.
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