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43 men it was ascertained that the beforementioned flag was flying whereupon a Council of war consisting of Loony Lts. Brown H. W Augustine and myself was called to determine what course of proceed- ing we should next adopt = It was determined that a flag should be sent to the enemy to demand the meaning of their signal = I was in accordance with that resolution deputed to perform that service and mounting a fine horse with a flag of Peace displayed I galloped into their camp their sentinels presenting arms as I passed and their officers running out in a body to meet me (saving and excepting their Col.) and shewing as I thought every demonstration of fear which it was possible for a body of military men to shew = I delivered them my message which was a verbal one through James Durst a son of Joseph Durst then a youth of 13 years of Age They told me that the officers and men of the Battalion of :Mont Clova 5 had declared for the Con- stitution as advocated by Antonio Lopes De San Anna and that they presumed that such declarations had dispensed with the necessity of further Hostility between the Colonists and Soldiery = I told them to embody .their declaration in writing and send it to my Commander at the same time impressing them with exaggerated ideas of our·force. They did so and a negociation was forthwith opened between the parties Juan Durst acting as interpreter by which the Battalion of JHontclova consisting of 375 men surrendered their Col. a prisoner to a force of 43 men and becam-e themselves republicans· binding themselves to march and join the ranks of the imm-ortal Chief which stipulation they faithfully complied with = Col. Piedras was sent by the civil authorities a prisoner to Vera Cruz and thus ended the Civil war of 1832 in Texas as the garrisons of Bexar Tenoxticlans of themselves made similar declarations with the other municipalities of Texas. Our Force disbanded of themselves and every man returned to his tent The business of settling a new Country went on as before and we slept under our Laurels in Peace fondly supposing that we had done the :Mexican nation a service for which we should be in due time richly rewarded = and truly they have not forgotten our enthusiasm in the cause of Liberty nor is it unperceivable that the fact of having doubled their veteran troops in so many different Contests always under dis- advantagious circumstances has planted in their unmanly bosoms a a [sic] deep and irreconciliable hatred to the very name of (Americans) by which term they distinguish us. This feeling was not made known by public demonstra- tion untill two years afterwards when San Anna (having laid the foun- dations of future rule in l\fexico by the new Plan of Vera Cruz) Put:- S. F. Austin, our fellow citizen sent by the People of Texas to JI.Iexico to present a Constitutional Petition to the general Congress of the nation in Prison and there kept him in durance for. a long time at length however early 1835 for some as yet unexplained reason Col. Austin was set at liberty and returned to Texas and shortly after- wards the People of Texas met in convention, declared their adherence to the Constitution of 1824 and their right under that Constitution to
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