partake of a Public Dinner, on any clay which may be most convenient lo you, as a slight Leslimony of the high estimation in which they hold your pub_lic services in the cause of Texas. In tendering you this public invitation lhe horrnige of an enlightened community to your Military Skill and chivalric conducl in the maintenance of the Independence of your adopted country we should do violence lo our feelings, as inclivicluals, were we not to express, as we now do, our hearty concurrence in the sentiments of the re~olutions, our congratulations on the lale brilliant achieve- ments of yourself and your gallant compatriots al the Baltle of San Jacinto and our confident expectation of the speedy and complete triumph of your Republic over her brutal invaders. Permit us, in conclusion lo assure you that, as Americans, we feel a double pleasure in paying the present tribute of respect to our Countrymen, remembering that the Hero of San Jacinto was one of the youthful warriorswhose blood flowes freely in striking for his country's Independence and glory in our last war, and that the energies of the same mind are still excerted in the maintenance of the same sacred cause of Liberty. Accept, General, our best wishes for your restoration to perfect health and renewed usefulness.
David C. Ker Samuel Thompson Cuthbert Bullitt Randell Hunt Sarni. D. Dixon E. Yorke 0. P. Jackson
Maunsell White Saml. P. Peters G. R. Stringer H.B. Cenas Jno. Winthrop Wm. Christy
[3232) [GAINES to JONES]
[E. P. Gaines, Hd. Qrs. Western Department, Camp Sabine, May 31, 1836, to Gen. R. Jones, Washington, requesting a leave of absence of four months clue to the ill health of his wife, and slating: "I have not a doubt that there will be some further disturbances upon this frontier, as soon as the Indians can obtain a supply of the coming crop of corn, which in this quarter, and lo the north west as far as Arkansas, will he ripe before the first of August."]
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