[2810] (LEXINGTON MEETING I
Texas Meeting. At a meeting of the citizens of Lexington, lo lake into consideration the present condition of the Texians, relative lo their struggle for independence with the revolu lionized government of Mexico, and to adopt such means to afford them relief, as are proper and conslitu tional, held at the Court House in Lexington on the 20th of April, 1836, on motion of John M. McCalla Esq. Captain John Fowler was chosen president, and R. Higgins Esq. Vice president, and Edwin Bryant and Thomas B. Holt, appointed Secretaries. James E. Davis, Esq. explained the object of the meeting, after which on motion of John M. McCalla, Esq. Resolved, Thal a committee of seven be appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the subject for which this meeting has been convened, and report the same for its consideration. The following gentlemen were appointed the committee, viz: Messrs. Dainel Bradford, Falkland II. .Marlin, Edwin Bryant, Robert Wickliff, Jr. Francis McLear, Col. II. Payne, and Col. Thomas A. Russel. On motion of Mr. John F. Coons. Resolved, That this meeting do now adjourn until half past 7 o'clock this evening. The meeting then adjourned. John Fowler, Prest. R. Higgins, Vice Prest. Edwin Bryant, Secretaries. Thos. B. Holt, Adjourned .Meeting. Pursuant to adjournment a very large and highly respectable meeting convened at the Court House. Capt. Fowler being absent, R. Higgins, Esq. the Vice President of the former meeting was called lo the chair. .Mr. E. Bryant having stated to the [torn] meeting that Col. Lewis, one of the Texian Commissioners to this country, had arrived in Lexington, moved that a committee be appointed to request his attendance al the meeting, and invite him to address
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