of which I communicate lo you, for your intelligence
Goel and Liberty Liberty July 3rd 1835 Jno. A. Williams
To the Political Chief Department of nacogdoches A true copy for the l\lexican Counsul-
[3201 [WILLIAl\lS CIRCULAR]
Pine Bluff July 3rd 1835 Municipality of Liberty Texas
Circular I have seen the documents which came by express, from San Felipe, addressed to our ajunteminto, I have read them with attention and can find in them nothing very strong nor very dissimilare from the former growth and production of the same place. I have carefully deamined the bombastic exposition of the Legislature of this State, and cannot find a single fact set forth in whicl~ the general Congress have erred. What are those mightly reforms alluded to and how is the basis of the federal compact endangered, the Legislatme with all its wisdom and high responsibility has not informed us. If there be facts sufficient to justify resistanc~what are they not explained to us, before we are called on to take part in a squabble between the State and the Nation to which it belongs. We are told much about extravagant reforms, dangerous innovations and extraordinary prerogatives a pumed hy the general longed, yet not one word is said about the public fraud commited by the Governour and Legislature, in the illigal sale of four hundred leagues of land to thier favourite speculators. Is il not some what strange too, that the Srguseyed San Felipeans should not have discovered, this shameful bacter of the public domain and have stamped it with their veto: But stranger things have transpired in the pul,lic authorities of Austin, the guardians of peace and your order, have forgotten the advice of the worth Stephen F. Austin, who but the other day told them in the most emphatic language not to entangle themselves in
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