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TEXAS STA'l'E LIBRARY
No. 418. JAMES CLARK TO LAMAR
:Municipality of Sabine July 23rd. 1836
DEAR SIR Jly father & Brother left here on the 8th. Inst & since their de- parture I have been so unfortunate as to lose my Mother Since they left. I have wrote my father a letter but it is uncertain whether he will get it or not & I now write to you as I think it will ·be a better chance of his getting intelligence of my Mother's· death I am now left in charge of eight children of which there is some of them very small I wish you to make an oration of this through the camps as I wish him to come home as soon as possible And also I have two other brothers left here one of them is lying sick at this time & the other was drafted to day. please let my father know of this as soon as you can. My fathers name is William Clark & my brother is name Henry Clark they both went under command of Capt .Collins of this district in so doing you will oblige yours. JAMES CLARK [Rubric] · [Addressed:] :M. B Lamar Commander in chief of Texas Army Poste haste [Endorsed:] James Clark Sabine July 1836
No. 419. "TEXAS." ANONYMOUS
[Newspaper clipping]
[About July 23, 1836] For the Telescope
A great deal has been said· pro and con upon the question whether the Texian insurrection is justifiable or not. Let us see if a few plain statements may not settle it. There are in fact two distinct questions involved: First as between Mexico and Texas: Secondly as between l\fexico and the United States. As between Mexico and Texas. Between the government of Iturbide, and the government of Santa Anna, there have been se,eral revolutions. The following facts are l1istorically undeniable. When Texas began to be settled by emigrants from the United States, and previous to Santa Anna's elevation, the Government adopted by the various States of South America, was like our own, a Federal Union of ~eparnte and independent communities. To this Federal Union Texas acceded as a component part. Austin's settlement was acknowledged by the federal government of 1s2,1. This united federal government was put down by a coalition be- tween Santa Anna, the Priesthood, and the Aristocracy of the country. The existing government was changed; not by a convention of the people, but by a militar:y force, led by Santa Anna, and which created a eentrnl consolidated government, one and indivisible, at the head of which Santa Anna was placed by his own soldiery, wjth the aid of the Priesthood. Against this forcible change, Texas remonstrated; but in vain. It clai111ecl to be a part of the united federal States of South America, and refuse(l to belong to the consolidatecl despotism of Santa Anna. Finding no redresi,, the Texans gave notice of their intention of sep-
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