clothes as the public may possess or can be procured.
While on Lhe suhjecl of our rights and your duty, we will touch on some other points of general interest. We consider that a strange apathy exists in regard to a con Li11uation of the war. You appear lo think that the war is over, and no farther steps are necessary to keep an army in the field. On this subject we totally differ, and unless you take immediate and efficient measures to draft men and enlist regulars, Texas will be again endangered and you will not be excusable. We do hope you will pay immediate attention to this subject. On the subject of General Santa Anna, we have all heard with indignation that the proposilion has been seriously entertained by you and your Cabinet, as to the policy of turning him loose, and that some of you propose his liberation. That we should suspect the purity of the motives which suggested such a course of policy, you need not doubt. It is well known by whom he was captured, and al what risk, and we will not permit him lo be liberated until a constitutional Congress and President shall determine that it is expedient; and should he be liberated without the sanction of Congress, the army of citizen soldiers will again assume the privilege of pulling down Lhe enemies of Texas. For we do not believe in the doctrine of treating with a prisoner. We abhor the idea of interfering in the management of Lhe Government. We consider the principle dangerous, and that il ought only to be resorted to in extreme cases; and in order to avoid all difficulty and prevent the occurcnce of a dangerous example, we request you will order elections for members of Congress, and the necessary officers of Government forthwith, and that Congress be called together at least in two months, in order that the Government may be organized and that we may have one of laws and not force. Your early attention to this is requested. The volunteers in the army have rights which ought to be attended to, and we would consider it just and proper that the acts of the late convention granting to them certain rights, should be strictly adhered to. By attention to the subjects above staled, you will cause Texas to be placed on a firm and unshaken basis: you will establish a government of laws: inspire confidence at home and abroad, and you will remove the present causes of dissatisfaction, and avert from the country anarchy, and, what would be equally dangerous, military rule. We lrusl Lhis
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