communication will receive prompt attention. Should it not, the unpleasant alternative will be left us of starving here; or retracing our steps to pursue at home our most sacred rights-a measure we dread to think of, and sincerely hope you notions of what is proper and just will induce you to act so as to render it unnecessary. We desire you will lay this communication before the Cabinet. Some of the Cabinet stand high in our estimation. We understand they have sedulously advocated the rights of the people and the true interests and honor of Texas, and to them no part of the foregoing remarks apply. In conclusion we repeat to you that Gen. Santa Anna must be safely secured, and placed at the disposition of the coming Congress. With the earnest desire that your views may coincide ,vith our own, and that peace and prosperity may shortly pervade the country, we have the honor to be, etc. Your obedient servants, Signed by nearly all the officers of the army. (3168] [PEASE to PEASE]
New Orleans May 26 1836
Dear Father
I write you from this place ,vith some hopes of your receiving my letter as I learn from friends here that you have recd but few written from Texas. I can not account for it, but I have received but one from you since you left this place last spring. I arrived here a day or two since from Texas in good health, having been forced to come to procure some money for immediate use. The war has entirely broken up every kind of business in Texas. Thousands have been ruined in all but their lands, our merchants not being able to make any collections, have been forced to slop, in fact you can scarcely conceive of the suffering that this War has occasioned. All of the country west of the Brazos has been deserted and overrun and pillaged by the enemy, but we think ourselves fully compensated for all our trials and losses by the splendid victory achieved by our army over the enemy on the plains of San Jacinto the 21st of April, an account of which you have probably seen in the papers ere this. We have
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