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Santa Anna, who had been restored to power, suggesting a basis for an agreement between Texas and Mexico. No doubt, Robinson concocted this plan in order to secure his own freedom. At any rate, it had that result, for his proposals pleased Santa Anna so much that he was released in crder to carry on negotiations with Houston, who was then serving his second term as President of Texas. There was an armistice as a result of Robinson's cunning plan, but nothing of a permanent nature came of it. In 1850 this man moved to San Diego, California. There, he was as suc- cessful politically as he had been in Texas, for from 1852 to 1855 he served as district attorney, and in 1854 was elected school commissioner besides. He also became one of the most prominent promoters of a railroad from EI Paso, Texas, to California. He died in San Diego, October, 1857. He left a will requesting that his estate be divided, out of court, among the five children of his first marriage and the one son of his second. No action was taken concerning the matter until about 1890, at which time all the children of both his families had died. There was a number of grand- children, however, to participate in the distribution. When this estate was finally settled, May 3, 1903, there were seventy-one legatees, nearly all of whom had been born after the will was filed. See the Biographical Ency- cylopedia of Texas, 273. Thrall, A Pictorial History of Texas, 605. Dixon and Kemp, Hc1·ocs of San Jacinto, 329-331. Baker, Texas Scrap Book, 275.
To THE SOLDIERS AT GOLIAD 1
[January 15, 1836(?)]
Comrades, Citizens of Texas! ·Another time I am appearing before you, and it is with the most fervent desire that this time, at least, my words will find general approval. Our proclamations to the other states of the Mexican Con- federation, asking thein to support us in our struggle for the restoration of our former rights, and for the protection of the Constitution of 1824, have, as you all know, been without re- sults. Even many of the Mexicans who live between the Sabine and the Rio Grande have disdainfully forsaken the cause of free- dom, and have not only denied us their support but united them- selves with the troops of Santa Anna and as enemies waged war against the land. Others have gone beyond the Rio Grande in order to smother us in conjunction with the next invasion. Still others have gone to their plantations on the banks of the forested rivers apparently to idly observe the war. These, comrades, are for us the most dangerous, because he who is not with us is against us. Also, from the otherwise liberal inhabitants of Zacatecas we have observed no movement in our favor. No other help remains for us now than our strength and the conscious- ness that we have seized our arms for a just cause. Since it is
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