parlieularcs sino la de la mis111a civilizacion, cslurbando las agrcsiones de los barbaros por cse Estado.-Y a fin de que V. S. haga eslcnsivas eslas miras verdadcrarnenle pakrnalcs dcl Suprt~mc Gobierno y que los habilanles de Texas puedcn dcsi111presionarsc de los falsos conceplos que hayan podiclo haber for111ado las sugcslioncs de los e11ernigos de nueslras glorias y c11grandcci111i1~11lo nacional, me ordena S. E. diga a V. S. haga circular esla suprcma orden por rnedio de las auroridades locales, y si fuerc necesario dcspachando co111isionados capaces de esplicar eslos scnlimientos de conciliacion y eslimacion, [illegible I ninguna manera permitan quc se pcrturbc cl ordcn publico, y a la aprccion de los quc lo inlcntcn, y lo han inlenlado ya con tan perfidas maquinaciones." Transcribolo a V. S. para su inteligencia y a fin de que Conforme a la supreme resolucion inserla arregle sus providencias. Dios y Liberlad..Mexico, Agosto 1. de l835. Tornel.-Sr. Co1nandanle General de Oriente.
[470] [ UGARTECHEA to COS)
Bexar, August 1, 1835. Yesterday I received the enclosed communicalions addressed lo me from San Felipe by Captain Don Antonio Tenorio. You will see by them that Don Lorenzo Zavala, having disembarked al Brazoria, is now in Columbia intending lo revolt. To prevent lhis and lo fulfill your orders to secure the person of this individual and bring him lo this town, where he must re-embark, 1 have delivered a communication lo lhe council and Political Chief of the Brazos, laking advanlage of lhe good disposilions in which they now are, and of their anxiety that no troops he introduced inlo the colony.** * 1 have not been able lo send the troop of horses that the said Tenorio asked for in his communication. ln view of all this, I hcgg of you lo intercsl yourself in order that 1 may be helped wilh money for lhe want of which I have been unahle lo aid Captain Tenorio, althoughl ] pily the slate of need and scarcity in which he is. I also cxpccl that you will tell me in your answer if you think it expedient for me lo slarl with 200 horsemen lo the
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