/ deemed mosl advisable. I seek no command and wish none, but am ready lo do _all the good I can to unite opinions and raise men, and lo fight in person- 1 go into this war chcerfolly aml with very different feelings from what I had in any of our past difficulties- we are now right our basis is sound and just, and will be so declared by an impartial world; we are defending our constitulional rights against military usurpation- I hope you will communicate you opinions to me fully and frankly. S. F. Austin. To the Committee of Safety &c. of Columbia.
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CIRCULAR from the committee to safety of the
Jurisdiction of Austin
Information of lhe most important and decisive character has just been received from Bexar from unquestionable authority which in the opinion of this committee calls for the prompt attention of the people. The substance of this information is that Gen Coss was expected al Bexar on the 16th of this month with more troops, that he intended to make an immediale attack on the colonies, that there was a plan to try and foment divisions and discord among the people, so as to use one part against the other, and prevent preparation-and thal the real object is to destroy and break up the foreign setllcmenls in Texas- This commil1ee have no doubt of the correctness of lhis information and therefore recommend- That the people should maintain the position taken by them at their primary meetings- to insist on their rights under the federal Constitution of 1824 and law of 7th May of that year and union with the Mexican Confederation- That every district ought lo orga nizc its militia where it is not already done, and have frequent musters, and that the Captains of Compianies make a return without delay to .the political Chief of this Department of the force of his Company the arms and amunilion, in order that he nrny lay the same bcfort' the
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