because daily supplies were expected to reach us-erroneously supposing that the Government officers were directing all their energies to the sustaining of the army. Of our error we were not convinced until after the battle of the 21st. A mere handful of men barring their persons of Texas, and finally gaining one of the most splendid victories known in the history of modern times, and making prisoner of him who was the projector and director of war against us, we had a right to suppose they would be hailed by the officers of the Government as the saviours of the country, and that some pains would have been taken to have supplied them with the common necessaries of life, especially when on Galveston Island there was an abundance of provisions and three steamboats which could have brought them to us within thirty-six hours. Instead of these favorable attentions, however, we were permitted to remain on Buffalo bayou, eating beef without bread, while those who had ignobly fled before the enemy were rioting in the abundance of the public stores. . An exasperated army was then refrained only because it was understood that the steamboats would meet them on the Brazos with an abundance of the public stores: and when on the Brazos they were again disappointed, owing entirely to the shameful inattention of the officers of the Government; they were induced to continue the march to this place, under the assurance and expectation that provisions would be sent to Coxe's Point. We are now here, and we have lately suffered for the want of beef itself, and but very few have any bread, and scarcely any coffee or sugar. Under these circumstances we have still to continue the march, with no other prospect than suffering before us. And to whom are we to charge these injuries? Surely to you, as the President of the Republic. It was your duty to have paid particular attention to the army; to have inquired out their wants, and relieved them. It was surely your duty to have caused provisions at least to have been furnished, and to have caused provisions at least to have been furnished, and to have dropped all other matters until this was done; and you will not be surprised to learn that the indignation and exasperation of the army is now very great at the total failure to pay attention to them, and the consequences may be serious if redress is not had. And we now require that this army be immediately furnished with a sufficiency of such provisions and
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