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No. 1716 1840 Feb. 5, R[ICHARD] G. DUNLAP, WASHINGTON: [D. C.], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS Endorsing John R. Burke for appointment as consul-general to suc- ceed Woodward. L. S. 2 p. No. 1717 1840 Feb. 6, H. MOLLHAUSEN, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TO MIRA- BEAU [BUONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] Complaining of the injustice of setting aside his application for topo- graphical map-work in favor of Sandusky of the Second Auditor'~ office. A. L. S. 3 p. No. 1718 1840 Feb. 8, JA[ME]S H. STARR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS], TO J\I[IRA- BEAU] B[UONAP~RTEJ LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Mi:illhausen's complaint at the award to Sandusky of the contract for topographical maps of the region about Austin.· A. N. S. 2 p. No. 1719 1840 Feb. 8, A. CANALES, GUERRERO, [MEXICO]. ADDRESS TO TROOPS UNDER HIS COMMAND 65 (Translation) ' Licenciate Antonio Canales, General in Chief of the Conventional Army, to the troops under his command. Citizen soldiers: Ye have this day entered into a solemn obligation, to defend at every hazard, the Provisional Government of these States, which I have no doubt you will make every sacrifice to fulfil. This will create consternation among the enemy, and they will use every effort to overwhelm and destroy us, but of what will it avail, when for our van, we have the tendency of the age, and for our rearguard, tlie sympathies of the whole civilized world. The dark age of tyranny is past, and it is not in the power of man to recall it. Compatriots: The "soi disant" nobility now at the head of affairs at Mexico, have attempted to subjugate the Mexican people, and hold them with fetters of tinsel, they have endeavoured to resuscitate ill odoured, and moth eaten privileges, introduce ideas already buried in oblivion, disarm the citizens, undermine the foundations of the free principles of our nature, and destroy the equality of the laws. Behold then, their base ideas of policy, with the pretext of preserving the nation entire, they create factions among her people, they provoke war with, and excite animosities against, foreign powers; protect privileged classes, neglet [sic] the interests of the country, extinguish patriotism; and garrison the ports and principal cities of the republic, while her frontiers are left defenceless; These ha Ye been the means they have
"'English translation by T. G. Western".
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