UTSA James Morgan Papers

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