it up, or let it recoil with a tenfold vengeance. The resources of Texas are sufficient to defray expenses: the officers of com'panies will make their contracts, and call on the general council for pay. Their drafts will be honored as long as the council continues, and by the executives succeeding them. Arms and ammunition have been received from New Orleans and forwarded lo the army now on their march under the command of general Austin for San Antonio, at which place general Cos is stationed with about eight hundred Mexican troops. Fellow-citizens, this is not the cause of a few: it is the cause of the whole people of Texas. Let us be united, and our cause is sure. Let us lay aside party feeling and sectional prejudice. The cause we have espoused is the cause of the people, and on the people we call A.G. PERRY, JOSEPH BRYAN, P. ]. MENARD, Committee. DANIEL PARKER A. HOUSTON, The council received a resolution from general Samuel Houston, presented by Mr. Garret, and adopted the same so far as the words "null and void." Whereas certain extensive grants of land have been made by the_Congress of Coahuila and Texas since 1833, and the same has been purchased by certain individuals under the most suspicious circumstances, therefore be it Resolved, Thal we recommend to the Consultation, at their meeting, the considetion of this matter, and that they declare aU the said grants null and void; which · On motion of Mr. Perry, was adopted, and one thousand copies ordered to be printed, with the report of the committee to day. R. R. Royall, President, J. G. W. Pierson, Secretary. . The committee to whom were referred the resolutions of A. Houston, and the amendment to those resolutions by Daniel Parker, on the subject of the Cherokee, Shawnee, and other tribes of Indians beg leave to report. That whereas several of the Indians chiefs were invited by the Commllalion of Texas lo convene with them, for the purpose
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