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Executive Department
Valesco 10th June 1836.

To His Excellency
The President, General
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

E. Sir

Your Communication of the 9th inst
purporting to be a protest to be published to the civilized
world has been presented to me.

The Government of Texas cheerfully
recognize to your Excellency the right to make known
to the world every grievance and injustice that you may have
experienced at their hands.

I admit that this government
has been constrained, by the influence of a highly excited
popular indignation, to deviate for a season, from the
terms of that Article of the treaty, made between this Govern-
ment and your Excellency which relates to your transportation
to Vera Cruz And in making this admission I profess
a profound mortification, for it does not belong to the
spirit of the Government, to make even a slight devia-
tion from it's solemn engagements. But the causes that have
produced the constraint under which this Government have
acted, are not unknown to you and I should regret to
believe that you were incapable of giving to them a just
appreciation. The Citizens and the Citizen Soldiers of
Texas, have felt and do feel, a deep, intense and righteous
indignation at the many atrocities which have been
perpetrated by the troops lately under your Excellencys
command, and especially at the barbarous massacre