we may go on together in harmonious concert prospering & to prosper. We all have a common interest & are desirous to accomplish a common object-namely the welfare of Texas with which our own is indissolubly identified. We arc now travelling different roads and devising different plans because we do not understand each other on account of our dispersed and scallcrcd settlements, on account of the impossibility of disseminating correct information, and on account of the universal prevalence of faction, party spirit, rumor & violence in every corner of the land. With the hope and the belief that you will co-operate with us in bringing about a consultation and that the happiness of all Texas may be promoted by its deliberations we subscribe ourselves your friends and fellow citizens. Done in the Committee room, in the Town of Velasco, on this the 20th of August 1835. B. T. Archer, Chairman John A. Wharton, Silas Dinsmore, I. T. Tinsley, Robert H. WiUiams, P. Bertrand, Warren D. C. Hall,
W. I-I. Bynum, Henry Smith, Wm. 1-1. Jack, Francis Bingham, John Hodge, Wm. T. Austin, Secretary
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To Col. J. W. Fannin Jr. Sir
You are appointed as a confidential agent by the committee of safety and correspondence of the Jurisdiction of Columbia, to proceed to San Felipe and use your utmost exertions to persuade Wyly Martin and all other persons with whom you may have influence lo co-operate with us in the call of a consullation of all Texas, through her representatives
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