a land speculator, for I have been so lucky or unlucky, thal l have not drawn one inch of land but my lot whereon stands my house, and for which I paid the former owner S50; nor have I had any other transaction directly or indirectly to the alledged injury lo government, except through the Custom house, to which I have paid more duties than all Bexar and Goliad put together but the land speculation is all a hoax. This is only a pretext; let any man that is not blind or has common sense look at the acts in all the interior and any of it is not a fact that this plan of .Military Government, but under the mask of Centralism was actually out in a state of forwardness a year ago. . The fact is a part of the colonists have acted very strangely by permilling the military to insult us in the arrest of our Governor, &c. Three years since they drove the military out of the country, as they alleged for the same act, and now they suffer them actually to commit this act with impunity. But you now must come to one of three conclusions, which are:- 2st. Submit to the military Government with all its · grievances. 2d. Or to pack and get beyond the Sabine, lo the Eastward. 3d. Or to fight and drive those robbers of Zaccatecas, whose orders on entering that unfortunate place, were to kill all foreigners, one of whom they would not shoot like a soldier, as he desired but shot him in the back like a traitor. There is about 500 troops now at Bexar, and in about fifteen or twenty days there will be 3 or 400 more, the people of Bexar are waiting anxiously to have us join them in reducing that place, and it is confidently reported that the two Companies of Bexar wilJ join the citizens against the foreign troops, Goliad has but thirty-five men, as an apology for soldiers; I need not describe them lo you, you know the principle part of them; they have intimated that they would be missing when the Americans would let one or two of their rifles crack. The people as well as the authorities of Bexar, Goliad, and this town have had several invitations to proclaim for Centralism, but have not, nor will they until they are compelled by military force, but they are strongly in the belief that they will be forced to do so. I could fill 2 or 4 pages with various information, but must conclude by wishing that the grand disposer of all events may in his infinite wisdom parry the
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