[625) [UGARTECHEA to SUB-COMMISSARY]
[Domingo de Ugartechea, Bexar, lo the Sub-Commissary, Bexar, September 14, 1835, asking him to arrange for lodgings for Cos and his staff.]
[626) [CHILD lo ALMONTE]
Confidential communication of Senor Col. Juan N. Almonte Relative to the affairs of Texas and measures which might be adopted ... Dear Colonel: ... The designs which some of my slaveholding and insatiable countrymen cherish of wresting from your country the noble and beautiful province of Texas are villainous. The I-Ion. Hutchins G. Burton, of North Carolina, has bought 40,000 acres of land in Texas, and week before last, he was in Philadelphia and declared to a near relative residing there (a respectable man and an earnest obolitionist) that the reason of his making said purchase, was that Texas was soon lo be annexed to the United States, that President Jackson had declared lo him at the city of Washington on the occasion of calling as he passed through that city about three weeks ago, that we must have it either by negotiation or force; that if 10,000 men would not do, 100,000 should, and that it was his intention lo make said Burton first governor of the new Territory. Jackson has made the same declaration to two other persons within the past few weeks....
Respectfully, David Lee Child New Rochelle September 15, J 835
To Col. Juan N. Almonte
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