General Government, with being implical1·d in the affair, and orders were issued for their arrest; several uf I hem were arrested, bu l ultimately succeeded in gelling hack lu Texas, some by one and others hy ollwr means. But lhal all I illcgihlc I released from farther responsibility, their hasty rclrcal, convey al least some intimation. fl will also be recollcctecl, lhat while at Monclova; these gentlemen wrote lo Texas many fellers, in aid of the Governor with the object of procuring troops to sustain the acts of the Stale Congress against lh1\ President (ur his Cummandanf-Gcncral for these Stales) who il musl b1\ remcmhcrecl by his 3nd allributP is expressly charged in lhe F'ed1:ral Conslilulion, with causing that r:onslitution and llw general J.aws lo b,i obseroed, and whether lhmw fellers or any of them were opened or inlcrccpled, or by what steps I have no means of knowing, - 1ml Col. Ugarlechea writes that troops were forthwilh pul in motion for the purpose of suppressing llw rnvulution which lhe Government had reason to bdi<me would be attempted by those i11divid11als 011 their rel.urn lu Texas. ll will be recollected that the great sale of Land to those gentlemen, was in violation of tlw 12th Art. of the National Colonization Law, of lhe lBlh of August 1824, in virtue of which the Stales dispose of the lands within their respective limits, and that of consequence, nothing but force of arms could enable them to realize their purchase. All these circumstances, logcthcr with the fact that ii was, al first, almost entirely thos1! lllP.rt, who were for war, made it appear very probable that their zeal and patriotism had lo excite them something of a private nature, and accordingly it was found (after the first burst of enthusiasm had passed away) almost impossible for a time to arouse the p«~oplc to arms. The proceedings of the first meeting, even al San Felipe itself, were pronouncrd mischievous &c. &c., by a large subsequent meeting of the people, who now declare for peace & conciliation with the Federal Government, in no equivocal terms. The Municipality of Gonzal<'s, in which J live, from the very beginning of the excitement had bcl'n for peace, ~lcclaring in !heir resolutions of the 7th July, and which wf!r approved on the 19th of the same month, that they "would neither support such men nor measures," and indeed tlw whole country from one end to the other with the exception of a V<'ry limited number of individuals, seemed resol\'t'd 011 peact' on anv honorable terms, and expressed full confidence in the ~ood faith L;f the Government in its relations with us. This slate uf thin~s continued till some lime after the 1st uf A11~11sl I.1st, when till'
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