[384} [UGARTECHEA lo PUBLIC]
Principal Comrnandancy of Coahuila and Texas.
Charged by the Commandant General, with the preservation in the State, of public tranquility and fulfilment of my duty - f can do no less than address yo~i as interested in so important an object, upon which depends the happiness of the inhabitants of the Department; in order lhal you may make every effort, for dissipating the alarms occasioned by false information, communicated by unquiet and revolutionary characters, who, resentful al not being able to carry into effect their depraved intentions of dilapidating the lands of Texas, wish lo make the inhabitants believe the Supreme Government is going to send forces to dispel proprietors of the possessions, which they have acquired by a title; without any other object on the part of these preverse men, than to prosper by means of a revolution. In order, therefore, that you may succeed in tranquilizing the mind, and dissipating the falsehoods which have been spread for the purpose of compromitting the colonists, you can show them this communication, and also manifest lo them, that they have nothing to fear from the introduction of troops; as this measure would have no other object, than that of placing them as detachments at the Ports, to prevent the smuggling trade - which is carried on with impunity by adventurers - and likewise to prevent the incursions _of the Indians, who, when they are not chastised, become every day more insolent, and loo frequently commit hostilities. Nor have we ever thought of trampling upon the rights lawfully acquired by the colonists, who ought not to doubt that the Supreme Government will attend to their representations; and will, at the same time, omit no means of accomplishing the grand object, of the welfare of all and each one of the inhabitants of that interesting part of the Republic. At the same time I do no less than expect, that you will by the virtue of your office, prevent the enemies of order from circulating reports, forged for the purpose of compromilling the incautious: and if there hy any person or persons in the Department, whose minds of pernicious counsel are occupied in
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