[356] [BRISCOE to EDITOR]
Anahuac, July 11, 1835.
Mr Editor:
Sir: In consequence of some remarks in the report of the committee of the Columbia meeting, disapproving the proceedings · of a set of individuals at this place who should have given the collector, Don Jose Gonzalez a string of resolutions declaring they would not submit lo the revenue laws of the government, renouncing these indi,~duals as foreigners, and denying any participation in the transaction. In consequence of which remarks I lake it on myself to transmit you herewith a copy of those celebrated resolutions, which will show for themselves. I beg leave also to state for the information of those hasty Columhians that there were some twenty or twenty-five men present, of whom but two were strangers or foreigners, and they both own land in the country and intend lo become citizens ... I have only lo reply that I have been followed by a regular persecution since I went lo Velasco lo see the real collector, and his mode of proceeding was very clifferent from what it was here. You will see by these resolutions that we only asked a fair chance with the rest of the colonies. A copy was never furnished Gonzalez, nor anybody else, 1 believe, in consequence of Gen Hardin (the chairman of the meeting) having immediately left for the United States before copies could be made out and signed. I have not seen Mr. 1\loreland (the secretary) since the meeting. He left the memorial in my possession to be copied and look the resolutions home, a copy of which he signed and sent me. 1 send the same to you ... I do not know who drew those Columbia resolutions but they are certainly a complete non-committal; they profess the strongest attachment lo the government, and immediately recommended the formation of a provisional government, and I beg leave further lo slate that the business of Messrs. Grayson and Jack al Anahuac was not made known lo any person but Judge Williams, if lo him; that it seemed they could gel information from no other person; and further that I believe this same John A. Williams a personal enemy of mine, and general enemy to the prosperity of the .country. Your most obedient servant, A. Briscoe
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