UTSA James Morgan Papers

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