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tana would inevitably march his triumphant forces into Coahula & Texas with a view to reduce this, the only State which remained ad- verse to his views. Viesca duly comprehended the delicacy of his sit- uation. Animated by Farias, he was [forceJd to submission; and yet having limited means for war, he dreaded the responsibility of resist- ing. In this [dile]mma, he proposed to Saml. Williams [to d.Jise 1000 AmeriGan soldiers with a view [of o]pposing Santana-and to achieve this he succeeded in getting t[he govt?] of the state to sell to Saml. Williams [40]0 Leagues of land; with which Land said [Wi]l- liams was to raise, arm & equip & bring into [the] field the wanted 1000 Americans. The land [wa] s to be sold under the pretext of rais- ing a sum for frontier protection against the Indians, but in reality to obtain the thousand men to resist Santana. Frank Johnson and Dr. Peebles were associated with him [at] his own request, because he did not [want l to go in [tJo the enterprise [ alone. l Such is the statement which I derived from ·Saml. Williams [i]n person.- He contended that the 400 leagues of land were de- signed as a fund to raise a force to repel Santana & to defend the Fed- erative or Constitutional [Go]vemt. [Sla]very existed in Texas when Old Austin obtained his Gra[nt The J emigrants did not introduce the system; they found it here [Endorsed] [ J tion [ J a short conversation with Saml Wil-· Iiams ·respecting the first rise of the Revolution- No. 1644 [1830-?, M. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON? TEXAS]. "EXPULSION OF PEDRES 58 FROM NACOGDOCHES 1832" 59 Expulsion of Pedres from Nacogdoches 1832 John H. 7'hompson, born in Hancock county Georgia; his father moved to Montgomery Co. Alabama when John was a boy in 1817- where John remaind until 1829, when he went to Florida staid one year, and then moved in the Fall of 1830 to Louisiana near Fort Jessup. In the fall of this year he traversed Texas, and from what he saw in the country, was fully satisfied that a difficulty would soon ensue between the Americans and the :Mexican authorities, in as much as the latter were pursuing a course of insult and oppression which the forme[r] would never submit to.- He returned home from his tour, and in the summer of 1832 visited his Uncle who had settled near Sanaugustine. Whilst he was here, news arrived of the affairs of Anahuac, where Bradburn had been forced to surrender his post &C. and it 60 now generally felt the whole soldiery would have to be driven "Piedras. Spelled throughout the docum_ent as Pedres and Peres. "A. Df. "'Here Lamar apparently omitted a word. The word "was" inserted would make the meaning plainer.
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