blow thal is al this time aimed al our total destruction.
Yours Respectfully. **********
[529] [COS Lo UGARTECHEA]
[Marlin Perfecto de Cos to Domingo de Ugarlechea, August 19, 1835, about affairs in Texas.] [530] [ARCHER ET AL Lo PUBLIC]
The Citizens of the Jurisdiction of Columbia- to their fellow Citizens Of All Texas
Fellow Citizens:
The undersigned have been elected by the people of the jurisdiction of Columbia, a Committee of Safety and Correspondence, and have been inslrucled to address you for the purpose of obtaining your cooperation in endeavoring to produce order, confidence, and government, out of the present deplorable chaos and anarchy. It is unforlunalely too true that Centralism with the rapidity of magic, has succeeded our late confederated form of government. The Conslitu lions which we have sworn to support are thereby trampled under foot. Our governor is in captivity and our legislature dispersed by the bayonets of the soldiery-in short we occupy the unenviable atlih1de of a people, who have not a shadow of legitimate government. The loss of all confidence at home, and abroad, is, and will continue to be the consequence of this stale of things. Immigration wiU entirely cease. The law of the strongest will be the only law that will prevail and nothing but doubt confusion and violence will overshadow the land~ After the most grave, and mature deliberation the people of this jurisdiction have conceived that a Consultation of all Texas through her representatives s the only devised or devisable mode of remedying the above recited evils & have instructed us to call upon you lo unite in bringing about such Consultation as speedily as possible. Some persons object to a Gcn'l Consultation on the ground that it is unconstitutional admitting it unconstitutional we would ask if the constitution authorized the consultations that formed the plans of Jalapa and Vera Cruz by which Bustamente and Santa Anna worked out their
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