it my purpose to compare services, or to set up claims over others. I have merely adverted to these circumstances to show how extremely improbable it is, that the people of Texas would refuse to recognize an authority conferred by themselves under such circumstances, and exercised exclusively for their benefit. They will recognize it; and J here give the public a renewed pledge, that all my acts in the name of our Government have been in strict conformity with my authority and the law; and if Mr. Wilson had accepted the commissions tendered to him before he left Kentucky, and had marched to the army, there would have been no difficulty; but as the "Ladies Legion" from the neighborhood of Lexington was raised for my division, they shall still be received on my reh1rn home, which will be shortly, and to those interested in their welfare, I can give a confident assurance that all the promises made to them in the name of the republic will be strictly fulfilled. T. Jefferson Chambers. In order that no misunderstanding may arise from the late affair between General Chambers and Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite, we deem it proper to make a statement of the facts and circumstances relating directly to the course held by General Chambers, as it came immediately under our personal observation. After the denunciation of Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite, of October 7th, and his card of the 8th, in answer, he requested us lo · act as his friends in the hostile meeting which he anticipated and intended. His first determination was to challenge those gentlemen himself, and he was only prevented by his friends, who insisted that the attitude he held had been, and ought to continue to be, one of defence. Public opinion seemed to require the same thing, and accordingly he remained in Louisville to await their arrival, which from the tenor of their card was anticipated. Letters and rumors were received from Lexington and Frankfort, advising General Chambers of their departure, and of the probability that a street attack would be made upon him. Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite reached Louisville on Saturday, the 15th, at or about 10 o'clock, A.M., with a number of their friends, and took rooms at the Galt House, where General Chambers had his lodgings. General Chambers frequently presented himself in the public parts of the house and upon the street, attending to his business, and requested his friends to retire and leave him alone, in order to give them an opportunity to make an attack if they should desire it; and he had made his arrangements to call them out and fight them on the same
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