The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 96
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
that on October, 1 two midshipmen, F. R. Culp and George R.
White, had fought a duel in which Culp was mortally wounded;
and that on October 11 Captain Robert Oliver, commanding the
marine corps, had died on board the sloop of war Austin of con-
gestive fever. The same letter states that Moore has made every
effort to raise funds, without success. On October 26 he again
writes to the department that he cannot get to sea if the govern-
ment does not furnish him with the means, that the terms of many
of the seamen are expiring, and that unless they are paid it will
be useless to endeavor to ship another crew. On November 5,
Moore received a communication from the secretary of war and
marine dated October 29, which said, among other things:
With respect to the detention of the squadron, I am instructed
by His Excellency the President, to say, that he regrets it exceed-
ingly-that it was very much to be wished that it could have been
upon the Gulf; but that all the funds placed by Congress at the
disposition of the Government for that branch of the public service,
have already been placed at your command.'
Moore comments on this statement as follows: "Strange as it
may appear, not one dollar of the $97,659 appropriated in July
1842, had been or has ever been to, this day placed at my command."
In a communication from Hamilton to Moore, dated January 2,
1843, this assertion is acknowledged. Moore says, "The evident
intention of this paragraph in the letter, was to impress the belief
on the minds of the members of Congress while in 'secret session,'
(which was no doubt then resolved on by His Excellency) that I
had received the whole of both appropriations. . .. Moreover,
I have been informed by several members that such was their con-
viction."
Hamilton's letter of October 29 goes on to say:
Nothing has been received in reference to the schooner San An-
tonio since she sailed for the coast of Yucatan in August last. Has
she since returned?
If you cannot with the means at your command, prepare the
squadron for sea, you will immediately with all the vessels under
your command sail for the port of Galveston.1Moore, To the People of Texas, 100, 101, 104.
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