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month, the last group leaving Austin on June 18, accompanied
by President Lamar, and the secretary of the treasury, J. G.
Chalmers; and on June 21, the whole body set out on the long
march to Santa F6.
The expedition consisted of a military escort consisting of two
hundred and seventy volunteers under the command of General
Hugh McLeod, and about fifty other persons, consisting of Gen-
eral McLeod's staff, merchants, tourists, servants, and the civil
commissioners who were to take over the civil government of the
province in case of success.29
The commissioners, William G. Cooke, J. Antonio Navarro,
Richard F. Brenham, and William G. Dryden, being expected to
take over the civil affairs, the instructions of the state department
were directed to them. According to these instructions, the com-
missioners were appointed to accompany the military expedition
about to start for Santa F6, and they were to have the chief direc-
tions of the expedition. The expedition had been organized by
the President, the acting secretary of state said, for the purpose
of opening a communication with that portion of the republic
known as Santa F6, and of closely uniting it with the rest of the
republic, "so that the Supremacy of our constitution and laws
may be asserted equally over the entire tract of country embraced
within our limits; but as that portion is inhabited by a people
strangers to our institutions and to our system of Government,
speaking a different language, and deriving their origin from an
alien source, whose religion, laws, manners and customs, all differ
so widely from our own, the greatest circumspection will be neces-
sary, in making known to that people the object of your mission,
on your first arrival in Santa fe and subsequently in conducting
your intercourse with them."
The great object of the President, he said, was to attach the
people of the district of Santa FP to the Texas system of govern-
ment, and to create in their minds a reverence for the Texan
Constitution; and to spread among them a spirit of liberty and
independence, which would alone qualify them for good citizens,
under a government, the very existence of which, depended upon
the will of the people.
The President had no illusions as to the possible manner of2Kendall, Texan Santa Fe Expedition, 72.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, July 1920 - April, 1921, periodical, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101078/m1/106/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.