Oct 1 1835 to Nov 26 1835 - PTR, Vol. 2

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[ 1168] [GALAN lo AUSTIN]

[Roberto Galan, Goliad, to Stephen F. Austin, November 13, 1835, complaining that Philip Dimitt was forcibly taking private property without paying, and had mistreated the citizens of Goliad by such acts as killing their sheep without trying to find the owners, threatening to saw down their doors, and forcing them to bring water to the plaza in their oxcarts.]

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[1169) [GONZALEZ to PRICE]

New York, November 13, 1835 SIR: I have the honor lo enclose a number of the "New York Times," of this day, in which you will find reported the proceedings of a meeting held last evening at Tammany Hall, with regard to the American territories of Texas adjacent to the United Stales. By these proceedings, it is plainly ascertained that there exists in this district an organized body of American citizens, with the avowed purpose of aiding the people of Texas in their revolutionary movements against the Government and laws of the United Mexican States. It was resolved, as you will perceive in the report, to appoint an executive committee to manage the collections that may be made for the support of the Texonians; and moneys have already been raised to that end. It was, besides, announced in the said meeting, that a recruiting office is open in No. 62, Front street, to those who will enlist themselves lo lake up arms on the side of the revolted Texonians. In my communication of the 10th instant, in answer to your note of the 6th, I mentioned that the resolution adopted in the meeting held at the Shakspeare hotel, on Saturday, the 7th, in favor of Texas, ought to be considered as the first of further steps that were to be taken towards a direct interference on the part of a great number of An:ieric_an citizcn_s _in the politi_cal affairs of Mexico. Jt is now certam, sir, that this 111terference 1s undertaken by a body of citizens, in violation of _the law_of nations, and of the Jaws of the United States enacted to mforce 1t. I therefore denounce to you these proceedings, as well as the measures that arc lo be their consequence, and which are to

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