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Joseph Eve, Charge d'Affaires to Texas
JOSEPH EVE TO WADDY THOMPSON"8
Galveston January 8th, 1843
The Honble
Waddy Thompson
Minister from the United States to Mexico
Sir
Your letter of the 8th, November was received in due time.
I immediately upon its arival address [d] a letter to the Sec-
retary of State of Texas,9" upon the subject of the advances
made by you to the San Ta Fe prisoners, requesting him to lay
it before Congress, and ask for an immediate appropriation of
the sum of $6500 to be paid to you or so much thereof as may
be due to you, for all disbursements, or liabilities incurred by
you for the prisoners.
I at the same time wrote to the speaker of the senate, and
house of Representatives and several members of each house
upon the same subject in which I took occation to remark that
I could not bring my mind to believe for a moment that there
was a single member in the Congress of Texas, who had so little
regard for his own standing and for the honor and character
of his Country as to hesitate to vote for an appropriation suffi-
cient, to discharge a debt of gratitude, of justice and honor,
one which made so strong an appeal to the magnanimity of
every member, that the Government as well as every Citizen
of Texas would feel great pride and pleasure in meeting it
promply. I have yet no doubt but that the appropriation will
be made, and had delayed writing you untill it was done, but
Congress is so tardy in its action that but little has been done
as yet. So soon as the appropriation is made, it will afford
me great pleasure to give you the information, The last news
from the west brings the information, that about 700 Texan
volunteers had taken the Mexican Town Laredo on the Rio-
grande from which place about 130 of the volunteers returned
to their homes, because their officers would not permit them
to plunder from private individuals; the ballance a little more
than 500 in number, had crossed the Riogrande and were on
their march to Guerro [Guerrero] this is a bold move for their
"'Waddy Thompson (Sept. 8, 1798-Nov. 23, 1868), congressman and
diplomat, was born at Pickensville, South Carolina. Thompson was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1819; served in the state legislature, 1826-1830; was
a strong advocate of state rights; served as congressman from South
Carolina, 1835-1841; minister to Mexico, 1842-1844; and was an opponent
of secession. See Dictionary of American Biography, XVIII, pp. 473-474.
"OAnson Jones served as Secretary of State from Dec. 13, 1841, to Dec.
9, 1844, although Joseph Waples and Geo. W. Terrel occasionally acted as
Secretary. See Garrison (ed.), Diplomatic Correspondence of the Re-
public of Texas, I, p. 23.109
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