treaties. I have written lo the General, and the courier will certainly return today.
Your altenlive, obdt. servt.
Pedro de Ampudia.
[2966] lAUSTJ~ to LINN}
New York, May 4, 1836.
Hon. L. F. Linn: Dear Sir:
Yours of 1st. instanl I received to-day on my relum from Philadelphia, (where I . went, al the solicitation of a commillee from there.) in conjunction wilh my colleagues, Archer and Wharton, lo attend a Texas meeling on the 2d. I presume you have seen in the Philadelphia papers the result of the meeting- (see the Pennsylvania Inquirer, U.S. Gazette, Ledger, etc.) It was very enthusiastic and ardent in the cause of Texas, and was held in a wing of that Temple of Liberty where, in '76, those principles were proclaimed which have every since been a beacon-light lo the benighted and enslaved of all nations. The spirit of '76 was there. That spirit, and hearts of the vast multitude, told them what to do. No cold or selfish influence of policy or of party cast its chilling breath over that meeting. You ask me what can be done in favor of Texas? Ask your heart, my friend and fellow-citizen, (for such you are in feeling, although an invisible line separates our domicils- ask the noble spirit of your and my fathers- ask every freeman, every philanthro- pist on earth- ask every man who is not a politician, and who acts from the warm and honest impulses of a patriotic heart, and you will receive a satisfactory answer. A war of extermination is raging in Texas-a war of barbarism and of despotic principles, waged by the mongrel Spanish-Indian and Negro race, against civilization and the Anglo- American race. For fifteen years I have been laboring like a slave to Americanize Texas-to form a nucleus around which my native countrymen could collect and grow into a solid body that would forever be a barrier of safely lo the southwestern frontier, and especially lo the outlet of the western world-the mouth of the Mississippi-and which would he a hcacon-lil!;ht lo the Mexicans in their search after liberty.
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