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had received from their friends at New Orleans all the necessary materials to prepare and kindle that flame which must inevitably devour their increasing prosperit:y, if they shall not promptly open their eyes, and submit anew to the authority of the national government, which they have outraged, and which if it disclaims to revenge itself, is yet firmly resolved to render itself respected in the extent of our immense territory. Since that the colonists of Texas have obtained and daily obtain from New Orleans, assistance of all kinds, in men, munition and arms, in silver and soldiers, who publicly enlist in that city and carry with them arms against a friendly nation, the solution of this question, purely domestic, is rendered more complicated by their presence. Even public assemblies have been organized al New Orleans, which with the greatest publicity interfere in the affairs of Texas, or even direct them - and either by means of the press or meetings ostensibly convened, seek continually to generalize the future views of some of them and Texas with the opinions of the citizens of the United States; in other words, they seek Lo give a color of American nationality to what is in fact a mere speculation of different adventurers of all kinds. The undersigned knows already that many of these acts have been committed and are still committed under the refuge of the liberatism of American institutions - without the local authorities or the government of the nation having any power to oppose them; of which kind are the freedom of the press, individual liberty, and the unrestrained exports of commerce. For these reasons, then, the government of the undersigned cannot and should not solicit the action of the United States Government, except to adopt measures authorized by its own laws to prevent the evils which a foreign intervention (although individual) in a domestic clissention, may produce to a friendly nation, attached lo it by political and commercial ties. The second subject on which the undersigned must appeal, is the capture and arbitrary detention of the l\lexican schooner of war, the Correo of Mexico, captain Thompson. This ship was captured in the waters of Texas by the American merchant ship the San Felippe, captain Hurcl. To justify an act so scandalous, and doubtless to countenance this gratuitous outrage clone to the Mexican flag, a part of the crew of the Correo have been accused of piracy. The undersigned can assure the honorable secretary of
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