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Thomas J Chambers who we [sic] equally guilty was ordered to quit the town immediately which he did. A second meeting was got up in San Felipe by the war party, but this adjourned without any further action than to recommend a general meeting of all [the] Citizens of the Country around, five Gent. were appointed a committee to make the matter as public as possible. On the 12th. of September this important meeting was held in San Felipe, never was [the]re a more exciting time, 4 or 500 hun• dred persons met in that little town, and party feeling was at the highest pitch, every man looked with jealousy and suspicion, on his neighbour; all was uncertainty, No one could tell" how matters would go, when at that critical moment Col S. F. Austin presented himself, he was immediately cal[leld to the chair & P. C. ·Jack appointed Secy, Austin made a real hot war speech which astonished the peace party, &c - all open opposition died from this date, At this meeting a committee of vigilence & safety was elected =Robber= I was once in the interior of Mexico, & became acquainted wit1' a young man by the name of Flores, he was of genteel personal ap- pearance, and a man of education, he did not look to be more than 28 yrs of age, when I became acquainted with him I was on my way from Saltillo to San Luis Potoci I [took occas]sion to stop at his house, never was I received with more hospitality & politeness I in- troduced him to Mr McKinny, and his attentions to Mr McK, was particularly kind & polite, I saw him after in Saltillo and was treated with the same politiness as on first interview, The next account I heard fro[m] my friend was that one year after he had met Mr Mc· Kinny, and disired in the most polite & approved manner to relieve him of burden & inconvenience and risk of transporting his money thro the country, Mr McK, rather bluffed h[iml off on that occasion, but he promised he would meet him again, when the matter should tum out quite differently - On a subsequent visit of Mr McKinny our hero was .one of about 18 or 20, robbers who made an attack on him but a short distance from Saltillo, l\f McK, had 5 men & 3 of them were Mexicans, he ordered them to cut loose immediately the cords that fastened the bags of silver upon the mules, that the monev might fall to the ground, not be carried of by the mules should they take a frfo:ht so soon as this was done the mexican sevants [sic] engaged with Mr McK, in the fi2ht, & Mr McK, declares showd no want of courage, the attack lasted but fa shlort time - but Ion~ enou2h give Mr. McK's, party r sic 1 to do the robbers a great. deal of injury without . sustaining much themselves. three of the robbers were killed on the ground, and several wounded, Mr. McK, loss was only one. mule killed - I believe none of men were touched. This fight created a irood deal of noise in the country, hut manv persons were more amazed at the 1?Teat distance at which Mr. McK. had killed a man than at any other part of the transaction, At the time this took place Latona was the Govr. of the State · of C & T - he was a great bil?'ot & relil?ious fanatic, and could not bear a thief or a robber in his sight he cause [sic] the whole matter
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