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present as my acquaintance is less with it, than any other De- partment. If the means placed at the disposition of the President by Congress, are not such as they should have been, w~ find the citi- zens disposed to do every thing in their power to sustain the Navy. I anticipate warm work, and if so, I wish the Navy now very much, so as to throw it in the rear of the enemy, and attack them. It will embarrass them more than anything else can do. I wish too to cut off all supplies which they may expect by sea, and if they have any war vessels, I hope you may seize upon them in the course of the spring. The war wil~ be pressed with all my power, and I rely on the able, and efficient co-operation of the Navy. Make haste, I am pressed for time. Sam Houston. [Endorsed]: Received 25th June, per Cutter Woodbury. 1 To the People of Texas, by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, T. N., pp. 68-69. 2 Comrnodore Edwin Ward Moore (June, 1810-October 5, 1865). See Thrall, A Pictorial History of Texas, 572-575; The Quarte1·ly, Texas State Historical Association, VII, 223-234; XIII, 13, 33-127 passim; Edwin Ward Moore, To the People of Texas; Lamar Papers (six volumes), passim; Bancroft, North Mexican States and Texas, II, 352-356; Dictionary of American Biography, XIII, 120-121. aJames Ward Moore was the brother and the secretary of Edwin Ward Moore. See The Quarterly, Texas State Historical Association, VII, 220.
To JOHN W ADE 1
Galveston March 11 h., 1842. To John Wade, Lieutenant Commanding Galveston Coast Guards on Special Service, on an Expedition to Copano: Sir - You, (having been appointed to the command of this expedition), will proceed with all possible despatch for Aranzas bay, or such other place on the Coast as you may deem expedient to visit, there to make search for vessels employed in the service of Mexico-either transports for troops or provisions, munitions of war,&c., &c., -to examine every vessel you may meet with and suspect, having due regard to the usages of war in such cases. You will direct the movements of the two vessels which ac-
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