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HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES. 5 9
years, within his jurisdiction, to be forthwith mustered and enrolled for mili-
tary duty, and to put the same upon duty; and any person refusing so to
muster and enroll himself shall be forthwith transported from the island,
together with his family, if he have any here.
The commanding officer shall also cause a muster to be made of all the col-
ored persons on the island, males and females, being over fourteen years of
age ; and the same to arrange into suitable parties for fatigue duty, a-signing
to each party specific employments, with a Superintendent, whose duty it shall
be to oversee and forward their work.
All persons contravening this order shall be tried and disposed of according
to the articles of war. DAVID G. BURNET.
Done at post of Galveston, this 25th day of April, 1836.
The above order was issued the day previous to receiving the intelligence
of the battle and victory at San Jacinto.
EXECUTIVE LETTER TO MESSES. PETER W. GRAYSON.1 AiD
JAMES COLLINGSWORTH.
MEasss. GRAYsox and COLLNGSwORT were appointed and commissioned
by President Burnet to proceed to Washington City as Commissioners in
behalf of the government of Texas. They were instructed primarily to
solicit the recognition of Texas as an independentState, and, if so far success-
ful, to propose the annexation of Texas to the United States ; the proposition,
if entertained, to be subject to the future determination of the people of Texas.
We regret that we have not a copy of the instructions:
EXECUTrVE DE ARTBENT, VELASCO, June 20, 1836.
To THE HONORABLE PETER W. GRAYSON AND JAMES COLLINGSWORTH :
GENTLEMEN: We last evening received intelligence that a large Mexican
force was on the march to Texas. Four thousand men had left Matamoros,
and Felisola's division, 5000 strong, had been ordered to countermarch and
renter the lately evacuated territory.
This news, as you will readily conceive, has thrown us into a little confu-
sion But we are doing what we can to meet the storm. A call, en masse, is
made upon the people: How far it will be obeyed is a little equivocal. I
trust enough will feel and obey the impulse of self-preservation to enable us
to meet the enemy and to conquer. The war will. assume a still more inve-
terate and malignant character than it has yet exhibited; for the spirit of vin-
dictiveness is greatly exasperated on both sides.
Some painful and, as I conceive, uhhappy incidents, have taken place since
you left. The prisoners, Sainta Anna and his suite, have been removed to
Columbia, and are now in the custody of Captain Patton, a deputy from the
army: A wild and intractable-spirit of revenge is abroad among the people ;
it pervades all classes, and, in its high exacerbation, overlooks all claims of
public faith, and all considerations of public policy. I am sometimes appre-
hensive that the indelible stigma may be fastened upon us that would accrue
from the assassination of the obnoxious prisoner.
We are greatly in want of money, men, and provisions. A few well-
mounted (light) six or four-pounders, with a good 'supply of muniments,
would be very.valuable. Can you contrive no means to procure and send us
some six or eight of these ? We also want an increase to our navy. One
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