The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 245
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The Texan Revolutionary Army.
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But the consultation was much encouraged a few days
later by the news that General Mexia had organized a small force
in New Orleans and was preparing to make a descent upon Tam-
pico in the interest of federalism, while a committee reported on
the 12th that the rumors of unsettled conditions in Mexico "gives
hopes of a co-operation of our Mexican brethren in the glorious
cause of liberty and the constitution, in which Texas has set the
noble example." This feeling can only have been increased by the
arrival of Governor Viesca and Col. Jose Maria Gonzales, the latter
bringing with him about twenty Mexican soldiers. He had for-
merly served in the Mexican army and had at one time commanded
several companies of cavalry that were then defending Bexar.
Austin and Fannin believed that he could induce these to desert in
a body.'
By the General Council.-Gonzales came before the general
council, November 30, and, after having explained to him the decla-
ration of the 7th, offered his services and was accepted (December
3) as "a volunteer to defend the republican principles of the con-
stitution of 1824, and the rights of Texas." He was ordered to
retain command of the Mexicans under his charge and report
himself to General Burleson at Bexar. An advance of $500 was
made him to defray necessary expenses of himself and men. He
cannot have arrived at Bexar in time to have caused much disaffec-
tion among its defenders, but the day after its fall we do find him
issuing a proclamation to his old comrades in arms, urging them
to help the Texans support the standard of federation.2
In the meantime, General Mexia, returning from his disastrous
D, file 14, No. 1406; and Austin to Provisional Government (copy), De-
cember 2, 1835, in Volume 3 of Records, pp. 157-59.
'Journals of the Consultation, 41-42. For the hopes that Austin and
Fannin entertained of the ability of Gonzales to cause the disaffection of
the garrison at Bexar, see Austin to Dimit and Austin to the provisional
government, November 18, 1835 (in Austin's Order Book, pp. 65, 69, Austin
Papers, K 64) and Fannin to Houston, same date, archives of Texas, D,
file 6, No. 557. Also Johnson to Williamson, November 18, 1835, archives
of Texas, D, file 10, No. 926.
2Proceedings of the General Council, 79, 87; Committee to Gonzales,
December 3, 1835, archives of Texas, D, file 15, No. 1492. Filisola, in
Memorias para la Historia de la Guerra de Tejas, II 171-173, prints Gon-
zales's proclamation.
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