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pelled to abandon their homes that his blood shall atone for it,
They attribute all their misfortunes to his leaving Austin last
spring [sic] winter so soon as Congress adjourned and leaving
the whole west exposed to the enemy I take no sides and give no
opinion, having I believe the confidence of both parties.
Two of the Western senators have resigned and 9 of the
members of the house of Representatives have withdrawn and
gone home since I left Washington. Congress has done nothing
nor is there is a probability that they will do any thing cal-
culated to restore confidence or promote the good of the country.
The best thing that could happen for Texas, (unless it could
have a permanent peace) would be for Mexico to invade it, with
a large military force, All would then regardless of party feel-
ing march under their country's Standard and decide its fate
whith their arms, while the present depredatory mode of war-
fare waged by Mexico, is the most ruinous that could be adopted.
-When San Antonio was captured last March by 700 Mexicans
Genl, Arista issued his proclamation," that they were the van
guard of a large invading Army, that private rights and private
property would be respected and the war conducted according
to the known rules of international law.
Large individual contributions was made to arm and equip vol-
unteers hundreds were on their march to the West when the Mex-
icans retreated across the Riogrande; In July Genl Cannalles".
made another invasion with 600 Mexicans but was repulsed by
200 Texan volunteers then stationed in the West. The volunteers
had scarcely returned home, when Genl Woll issued his procla-
mation in the same style of Genl, Arista, on the 11th of Sep-
tember captured San Antonio again at the head of 1300 Mexi-
cans and some Indians, the District court being in session, he
made prisoners of the Judge lawyers and other officers of the
Court with two members of Congress in all 53 in number
here again large contributions [were] made hundreds were on
their march to the scene of action, when the Mexicans again
541n a proclamation dated November 8, 1840, two days after the
capitulation of General Licentiate Don Antonio Canales, Arista stated
his intention of conquering Texas. For Arista's proclamation and the
terms of Canales' capitulation, see the Civilian and Galveston City
Gazette, October 5, 1842. January 9, 1842, Arista issued a proclamation
from the headquarters at Monterey entitled: "Mariano Arista, General
of Division, Commander-in-chief of the Northern Army of the Republic
of Mexico, To the Inhabitants of the Department of Texas." Austin City
Gazette, March 2, 1842.
" General Lic. Antonio Canales, leader of the Federal forces in the
provinces of the Rio Grande, 1839. January, 1840, Canales issued a
proclamation convening a convention to organize "The Republic of the
Rio Grande," which met on the 18th and drew up a new constitution
modeled upon the Mexican Constitution of 1824. He was defeated on
March 15, 1840, at Morales by an overwhelming force under the Cen-
tralist leader, General Arista. See Yoakum, H., History of Texas from
its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in
1846. New York (Redfield), 1855. I, pp. 274-89.104
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