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[ 10101 [HUFF and JACK to COUNCIL]
Gonzales 28th Oct. 1835
To the President of the Council at San Felipe Sir
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In times like the present when it becomes every good citizen and friend to his country to be al his post to guard the interests, the rights, the honor, & liberties of his country from the attacks of its foes no matter from what quarter they may he made, we therefore deem it our imperious duty to advise you of the conduct of some Individuals who stile themselves citizens of the country-but who are in fact its worst & most dangerous enemies. To satisfy your mind of the truth & correctness of our assertion we submit to you a plain unvarnished statement of facts without the least comment whatsoever To clay Sam Houston of Nacogdoches arrived in this place on his return to the consultation of all Texas. His conduct here has evidenced the most discontented & envious of spirits mixed with the most unmeasured vanity- · He has peremptorily ordered that the company in whose charge is the cannon, proceed no farther towards San Antonio but on the contrary to commence a retreat back to the colonies-he has endeavored lo discourage our men by ridiculing a siege & alledging the impracticability of taking Bexar-he has tried to induce our men to return by declaring we ought not lo march against San Antonio-he has even attempted to pursuade one of our waggoners, to refuse to proceed farther-but lo leave the cannon and return, he had the impudence to order the blacksmiths who were at work on the cannon to stop-in fact he has in the course of two or three hours stay in this Town clone more to convince every reflecting mind, that he is a vain, ambitious, envious, disappointed, discontented man, who desires the defeat of our army-that he may be appointed to the command of the next- We make this statement not lo create division in your councils-hut to warn the friends of the country against the insidious attempts of designing ambitious men who have an eye to their own ambitious projects rather than to the good of the
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