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had in exciting the cupidity-of the English Government was to use them for his own special benefit. He was well aware that we would put no confidence in any pledge or promise that Me.xico could make us, hence he has prompted the cupidity of England so as to get her as security or guarantie to Santana for any promise which he may make us This is, I presume, as far as Great Brittain would venture to meddle in the matter For she is well aware of the opposition ~he might meet from another quarter Has his Excellency, without con- sultation, dared to make an armistice and abandon our prisoners to their fate? We know that he has abandoned those of Mier; but what excuse can he have to abandon those of Bexar, who were ·kidnapped and taken from their homes? His object clearly is to leave them as hostages, to distress and embarrass the Country, so that his grand ob- ject may be carried by the Coup-de-main of negotiation He has closed the door to reprisal on the enemy; not only by his various and futile proclamations of martial law restricting us to the limits of Texas proper, without having a man in the field to enforce it, but now by his proclamation of armistice, (implicating us with the English gov- ernment,) and appointing commissioners to negotiate, when he well knew that adhesion to Mexico was the grand object without which nothing could be affected Are we willing to submit to that? If so, why negotiate, why not consent at once and relieve our desponding prisoners? If not why close upon them the door of hope by armistie:e.? He clearly evinces that he is doing his masters will by confineing us to Texas proper, by exercising his Gubernatorial and General controll over the Mexican Department of Texas, in conformity to their mutual understanding The noted, heroic, and long to be remembered, sand- crab-fight betwen our heroes, strewed the plains of the Nueces with the blood and d-g of the worthy's and not that of the Rio Grande; which we have designated as our bounday, at leru1t for the present? The grand desideratum with our hero now is, adhesion to Mexico, a confirmation of his indian and other equally spurious claims; to be Governor General of the Department of Texas with a sallary of Twenty five thousand a year (to be filched from us) with the guarantee of Great Brittain to him and us for the performance of Mexico. This would establish the starting point to his unholy ambition He would then call about him his murderous Cherokees as life guards, as his jealous disposition would not permit him to trust any other with them and the deluded of all classes, he would soon be found intrigueing against Santana himself, for the imperial throne of all Mexico. His flag allready (in his imagination) planted on the isthmus of Darien; thence South America and ad infinitem without a terminus I have no doubt, such airy and delusive visions, the flittings of a morbid brain, caused him to abandon the Gubernatorial chair of Tennessee, all his social and civil relations, quit the haunts of civilized man, seek the wigwam court an alliance with savages, remove them to the Texian Wilderness establish a starting point, and by his low art of cunning and intrigue. ape Aaron Burr, and finally subjugate revolutionary Mex- ico to his imperial domination. Thwarted in his original purpose by the revolution which he could not prevent, we find him as true as the needle to the pole, by all the low arts and intrigues which his ingenuit.y can devise, pursuing this ignis fatuus, this beau ideal of a terrestrial
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