(652) [AUSTIN to PUBLIC]
[To the People] Information was rec last night by express that Gen Cos landed at Copano with 400 men arms and amunition- An expedition is now raising in the lower country to take the field at once- volunteers are called for to rendezvous at Leagues old place on Colorado on the 28 of this month. Every man in Texas is now called upon to take up arms in defence of his country and his rights. Those who join the expedition on the 28 are required to do so or they can join it at James Kerrs on La Baca which is the principal rendezvous- A corps of reserve will be formed to march on and sustain the advance. Those who cannot join the advance are required to unite with the reserve and report themselves to the committee of safety in this place and be ready for marching orders. It is expected that each man wiU supply himself with provisions arms and ammunition to march with- arrangements will be made for permanent supplies as soon as possible. San Felipe de Austin Sept. 21, 1835 S. F. Austin, chairman of Com.
(653] [OCAMPO DECLARATION]
New Orleans, September 21, 1835. On the 5th of July, 1835, the national armed schooner Correo de Mexico, commanded by Don Thomas M. Thompson, second lieutenant in the navy, weighed anchor in the port of l\fatamoras. I was going on board this vessel to Anahuac, carrying with me one thousand dollars, which had been delivered lo me in consequence of an order from the commanding general of the Interior States of the east, by the commissary general of Tamaulipas, for the support of that garrison; but as that detachment had been, before my arrival, made prisoners by the colonists of Texas, and removed, (of which affair I can, when required, give farther accounts,) I was obliged to return lo
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