011-mal krs will go in masse, one way or the other before long-at prctwnt everybody is looking on, for something-no one knows whal- , Almonte g<ws lo I he U. S. tomorrow he is truly a good man and friend lo Texas- 1 most sincerely thank my good friends Johnson and Peebles for Lhcir welcome Idlers, and also Cabajal. Show Llwm this and remember me lo then very particularly- I hope I shall arrive soon to ·go home with you all- a few days will show the result of Tonys absence- I think it will Le favourable- I do not write h 0 ome by this mail-you can inform them that I am alivc- f SL1!phen F. Austin] D. V. has informed you all of the evils produced by the impolitic 400 league law its results are bad enough but nothing in comparison to what I at first expected-it produced a great excitement here very great indeed it has injured me, allho it ought not-but so it is I have lo bear many sins not my own- [Addrcssed: I D. Samuel M. Williams Monclova
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TORNEL to COS I lJose M. Tomei, Mexico, lo Martin Perfecto de Cos, Leona Vicario, April 29, 1835, explaining the necessity for the Battalion of Morelos being stationed in Tamanlipas rather than in Texas, and declaring that after the revolt in Zacatecas is put clown a large body of troops "will be sent lo Texas to settle the business there dcfini tely." I
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[COS to EDITORS]
Matamoros, Isl May, 1835.
To the Editors of the "Mercurio:"
Dear Sir-I have read in No. 26 of your paper, two c:ommunicalions directed to me by Don Marcial Borre~o, whilst exercising the authority of the Executive of Coahuila and Texas, from which the public will have perceived what nwn under
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