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its object the recognition of our independence, and originating in and directed by the constitutional head of the nation; and that it is no marauding association which has for its object pillage and spoil. Tenders of commissions in the Army of Texas by the said Agents of Committees, are acts of audacity and impudence and are without any semblance of authority. General Johnston is a private citizen and holds no command under the authority of the government. The people of Texas are united in the holy cause of liberty; and all the reports which the factious and seditious may attempt to propagate for the purpose of embarrassing the govern- ment, will recoil upon the heads of the malignant and imbecile few (if any there be) in Texas, who may dare to raise a parri- cidal arm against their country. Done at the City of Galveston, on the 25th day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1842, and in the seventh year of the inde- pendence of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston. 1 P·rocla111atiom of the Presidents, Republic of Texas, Texas State Library.
To GAIL BORDEN, JR. 1
Galveston, 26th April, 1842. The Collector at Galveston will require all arms to be returned unless such as are now required for the service, and as are properly in the hands of the troops. Sam Houston [ Rubric] 1 P11blic Debt Pa]Je,·s, Texas State Library.
A PROCLAMATION ASKING FOR SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS 1
Galveston, 26th April, 1842. I will pay seventy-five dollars in sixty days to any one who will make advances in provisions to fit out the volunteers for Corpus Christi. Sam Houston [ Rubric] [Endorsed] : Sam Houston Note $ 75.00. Received of H. H. Williams Co. Six bbls Bread, fifty pounds Coffee & fifty pounds sugar, amtg to forty Eight dollars par funds. Alden A. M. Jackson, Colonel Commanding.
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