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New Orleans, 29th Oct. 1835.
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To the Gentlemen Directors of public affairs in Texas.
1. Gentlemen--Being unwilling to remain any longer a cold spectator of the difficulties under which our Republic is suffering, in consequence of the perversity and bad faith of the priestly party, who have usurped the reins of the governmenl, I have made an effort, more than common, in order that I might be useful in the noble cause which has always found me in its rank and one which you are now sustaining with such noble decision. Until such time as things have arrived al a point of open rupture with the Mandarines of Mexico, while there was even a hope that an accommodation might be effected between the haughty tyrants and the colonies, I did not wish lo meddle with the questions that were in agitation; but now that they have carried their pretensions so far as to extinguish the last spark of Mexican liberty, in order that they might afterwards eslahlish an order of things incompatible with the age in which we live, I cast off with one hand the mangle of phylosophy in which I have invested myself, and grasping with the other the sword which I never have yet unsheathed unless it was lo sustain the cause of the people. 2. Convinced that you are in yourselves sufficiently stTOng, and that my services may he more useful al another point, and with a view to call the attention of the usurping government lo one of its ports from whence it derives its principal support, I have determined to make a descent upon Tampico; for which place I shall make sail in a few clays, with this object, which is so important, I have armed a schooner, with a 12 pound cannonade and two eight pounders, and manned il with a crew of 50 men, armed and provisioned for 2 mon Lhs, having also 150 men, armed and equipped, for land service, and all in good spirits. For all this I have been under the necessity of pledging my credit lo effect loans, and make lucrative offers; hul all has been done with the advice and approbation of our illustrious Vice President, Gomez Farias, who will remain in this city until we can place him in safety in the Republic, without his being exposed. My arrangements in Tampico are such that I think Lhal the objects of the enterprise are certain in their attainments, unless some
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