your integrity and judgment; and that what we may here intimade respecting the matters submitted, we hope you will regard more in the light of intimations of what we deem due to our friends than as shackles imposed upon your judgment and sense of right between the parties.We regard it as impossible that you can arrive at any award inconsistent with the truth and honor of our friends, and with the fact, that whatever may be the state of fact now, with regard to the principal assertion of a direct personal bearing upon Gen. Chambers, that at the time of Col. W. and Capt. P's arrival in Texas, and up to the period of their departure from that country, the cabinet of Texas, as then composed, rejected and disavowed his acts, disavowing as they did, all the acts of Gov. Smith, under whose administration the authority of Gen. Chambers was conferred. "We would further beg your honorable body to notice the fact, that the statements made by our friends in reference to the authority of Gen. Chambers, were predicated upon the deliberate and repeated assertions of the President of Texas, the Secretaries both of State and War, and not upon idle rumors or the statements of disaffected or seditious persons. You cannot rightly understand the case of our friends, without knowing that such is the case, which we can prove if desired. "You can, gentlemen, bestow whatever consideration upon a publication which recently appeared over the signatures of Col. Grooms and Capt. Henderson, and stated in the prints to have been published through the procurement of Gen. Chambers, you please. Without entering into an argument of our friend's case, and having unbounded confidence in the board individually and collectively, we trust that you may be successful in your efforts to arrange the differences submitted consistently with the honor and feelings of both parties. Respectfully, A. C. Bullitt, John W. Russell." On Friday, the 21st, whilst the court had the affair under consideration, at a meeting of the friends of Gen. Chambers and Col. Wilson, the friends of the latter asked, if during the pendency of the affair before the court, a challenge would be received; to which the friends of Gen. C. answered, that it was unprecedented; and upon a repetition of the question, the friends of Gen. C. replied, that it was with Col. Wilson to act in that matter as he might please.
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