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of the brave Colonel Fannin and his gallant companions.
How far your Excellency participated in that abominable and
inglorious slaughter, I am not disposed to conjecture, but it
is both natural and true, that the people of Texas impute it
to your Excellency's special command.

When the Government of Texas solemnized the
treaty of the 14th alto, with your Excellency, they did not it
in good faith and they intended religeously to observe every
stipulation of that treaty. Your embarkation on board the
armed schooner Invincible, was an effect of that intention,
but your Excellence has had too much experience in the way-
wardness of popular excitement, not to feel the necessity which
prompted your subsequent debarkation and the postponement
of your stipulated departure.

Your Excellency protests 1stly For having
been "treated more like an ordinary criminal, than as a
prisoner of war, the head of a respectable nation even after the
agreements had been commenced"

I do not precisely comprehend the character
of the treatment objected to and would have been pleased to
have had specifications. If your Excellency alludes to the
accommodations in our power. That we are at present des-
titute of the ordinary comforts of life, is mainly attributable
to your Excellencys recent visit to our new country and on this
account, we feel less regret that you should partake of your
privation.

Your second protest, relating to the treatment exper
enced by the Mexican General Adrian Woll, involves some
facts which I do cincerely deplore, but for which this

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