therefore they are content and think the US calims [claims] lo the Natchez [Neches] and they are safe if those that arc drafted docs not go I hope the confiscation law will be put in force rigorously and as soon as posible and as soon as the Mexicans arc disposed of that the army may be employed in driving all out of the country that will not help lo clefend it and aveng it rongs Yours Rcspeclfully Sterling C. Robertson P.S. I wrote to you by Mr Steele relative lo a mare of mine that Friar stole or robed under the name of a press and left a fine mule of his own if she is not taken from him please order her delivered to Judge Hood [Addressed:] Cenci Thomas J. Rusk Head quarters of the Texas Army Pliteness of Judge Hood
[3178] [BURNET to MORGANJ
(Private) Col. James Morgan Dear Sir
Velasco 28 May 1836
Your Several letters by Mr. Longley are just recd and I avail myself of the absence of the Cabinet to reply to such parts of them as are not strictly official. My letter to You in relation to Mr. Stansberry's men was not intended lo be published to them nor indeed to anybody. l\lr. S. had told me that he had verbally agreed with those men to serve for two years or during the war-that he had dislmrscd money raised by contribution in Cincinnati to fit them out &c and that after his arrival at the Island they had abandoned him and that you had received them for three months &con this Statement I wrote what J did write and very hastily too. I am opposed to three months enlistments and have always believed that clause of the law as relating to volunteers from abroad, as a very injudicious and pernicious one-one calculated to flood our country with an unprofitable tribe of needy adventurers. 1 enclose you the letter of S. Swartwout. ~le~rs. Collinsworth and Grayson will soon depart for Washington as Commissioners for various important purposes. We shall sec what the "old Chat" will do.
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