comprehensive and universal denunciation of this disappointed office hunter. But, if any men have returned, where are they? Who has seen them? Aie they in Louisville? Will they be found in Lexington? No! Then has no one seen them? The truth is, I have been told the few who came back remained in New Orleans, and, having been undeceived respecting .l\'lr. Wilson's misrepresentations, have returned to join their companions in Texas. We are also told in this malignant expose, that "several distinct propositions were made "by officers in the Texian service," "to scour the country and take every thing valuable themselves, and then return to the United States, as they did not expect the Texian Government to pay them a cent for the service they had rendered, or the expenses they had incurred." I do not believe, that such a proposition was ever made by any officer in the Texian service, but I think it more than probably that some disappointed land and office hunter may have made such a proposition. But, as l\fossrs. Wilson and Postlewhaite have magnanimously attacked a whole people, struggling for existence and liberty, surely they might have favored us with the names of those honorable and gallant Knights, in order that we might have paid them our proper devoirs, I insist upon it that the names of these officers be given, or the whole be taken for a fabrication. Let it be remembered, that Galveston, the place where Mr. Wilson landed his men, and where they remained until he returned from Velasco, is an Island entirely separated from the main land of Texas, and it will not be difficult to conceive that 30 or 40 or even 80 of his men should have returned, however persevering and disinterested they may have been; for, cul off from the main land as they were, and unable to examine for themselves, it was easy and natural for them to be deceived and misled by his misrepresentations. Let it be remembered also and borne in mind, that Messrs. Wilson and Postlewhaite remained at Velasco on the sea beach only two or three days, and we shall be able to form a proper estimate of the following sweeping assertions, by which they have thought to stifle public sympathy, and deprive the Texians of that aid and countenance from the brave and generous, which has enabled them to preserve themselves from extermination by a sanguinary and brutal enemy. . "We have said that Texas was unworthy of public aid or sympathy: We now stale that our personal observation and undoubted information enabled us fully to perceive 1st, That the present population of Texas seemed wholly incapable of a just idea of civil
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