electoral caucus, as furnished me by the alcalde of this Municipality. You will please make such a disposition of this paper, as shall be best calculated to advance common good of our common Country.
Yours Respectfully P. Dimitt
[1195) [INGRAM to AUSTIN]
To the Commander in Chief of the Army of the People of Texas Excellcn L Sir,
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Your Excellency will excuse, it is hoped, the liberty taken by a volunteer citizen soldier, in presuming to address the Commander of an army on the subject of his individual concerns. Your addresser entered the service of his country as a private. He has aspired at nothing higher. He wishes no other, or higher appellation than that of patriot, vitally, and supremely divoted lo the cause, in which all we hold dear, is now embarked. Nothing but the complete triumph of of this, can induce him to withdraw his efforts, or lo relax his vigilance, till his country is liberated. He finds himself, however, drawn without his consent, into a place in the service by no means conginial either lo his health or his feelings, and by no means the best fitted, if he may be allowed to judge, to render him in the highest possible degree, useful to his struggling country. He is nol aware either that his services are at all important in the place where he now acts, or that any difficulty would arise in filling it, (if to fill it at all, be thought necessary) or that any, the least prejudice would result to the public service for the substitution of another to arl in it. Nor does there exist between himself and the commanding officer here, either want of confidence, or of personal allachment. Your addresser would therefor~ _earnestly solicit your Excellency's permission lo withdraw from this post, and so to ~mploy himself in promoting, and sustaining the cause of his
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