[758] [ROBERTSON to HUNT-]
Nashville, Oct. 5th, 1835. Mr. Hunt - I arrived at this place about two weeks since from the Province of Texas, where 1 have spent the last three years in exploring the country and settling a Colony, which I ohtained from the Mexican authorities. . Since I left Texas, I have seen various publications in the newspapers which would seem to indicate that a supture was about totake place between the authorities of Texas and the general government of Mexico.-Without taking things into proper considera- tion, such an inference would be natural. Texas is divided into small municipalities unconnected by any bond of union except their common danger. The arms of Santa Anna are victorious over the Federal Constitution in every part of the Mexican empire except Texas. She stands alone, and aware of her danger, and is easily excited by any remors of danger that interested partizans may set afloat lo answer their own views. Such was the case just before I left Texas which caused a belief that an invasion of Texas was inevitable;but when sifted to the bottom, was found to be artfuldesigns of a parcel of land speculators, who had made a frandulent bargain with the Stale authorities, and were declared traitors by the general government, and fled to Texas, and tried to make the impression that all Texas was included in the denunciations of the general government. The country being so easily agitated and convulsed from one end of it to the other; the people find it to be best to have a stricter bond of union among themselves for the purpose of disseninating correct intelligence, and putting down those false rumors which arc so distracting to the public. Hence, they wish a Convention for a general consultation among all the jurisdictions of Texas that proper persons may be selected to examine into these flying reports, and if any real danger appear, that the whole country may be prepared to meet it, and if they are false, that they may be put down immediately. A thousand troops are reported to have been seen a short time since in the interior where troops are not so much in the habit of being seen, which, it seems, is the cause of the present alarm. Before the organization of a proper committee of vigilance and correspondence by a general convention of all Texas, the purposes which these troops are intended to answer would be found
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