Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1842-04-02
UNITED STATES.
OF THE

WE, certain citizens OF Texas, now If
New Orleans, beg leave TO address you
on behalf Of our country. We wish
briefly to tell why we are among you--to
explain our views and objects, and tc
show that we ask nothing at variance
with your duties to your own country,
and nothing more than friendship and
consangunity encourage us to expect.
We are engaged in a war with nu-
merous and barbarous enemy, and war
which we intend shall not be one of re-
slstance alone, but Of invasion. You
know the condition Of our government.
and the exertions which have been made
by the people Of Texas. You know, t 90,
how deficient we are in the means OF
carrying on military operations to ad-
vantage, and we come TO ask of YOU con-
tributions for supplies in every mode in
which they may be lawfully made. We
leel that little more is necessary than
this PLAIN statement of faeta. Wo op-
peal not TO your pity, but 10 your gener-
GUS sympathes We know that a people
proverbial for their courage, can appre>
ciate the feelings of men in the presence
OF an enemy, without the means of resis-
lance. We ask those means of you as
we would ask of our own brothers, that
which they have and we have not. We
ask them, to be used in what we consider
common cause-and we ask them as
frank y as we would tender them to YOU
under different circumstances.
But cur wants are not limited TO sun.
pIies-WE NEED MEN. Our popula-
ton is too small to keep sufficient force
IN the field, and at the same time to cuI-
tlvate our lands. We do not seek to en-
list soldiers here and march them to
Texas, in violation of the laws of ma
tons, but we invite you as brothers to
emlgrate to our country and acquire the
right of citizenship there, to stand by our
sides in a fair cause and common quars
rel, We believe that you will find this
alone a sufficient reason for emigration.
but If further inducements are needed.
we are authorized by our government to
offer them. 1t is unnecessary to give
them in detail. They are briefly express.
ed in the glory and wealth which cour-
age must win in so just cause and so
fair field Of conquest.
Your first act Of citizenship in Texas
will be TO take up arms for your new
country. Even if you should not be
called upon by the government, you will
find it impossible TO resist the generous
impuIse which is hurrying every Texian
to the field. You will feel this impulse,
peculiarly in emigrating from The United
States; for in the war upon Mexico, you
will ayenge the wrongs not only of the
country Of your adoption, but Of your
BIRTH
1t has been the boast of the United
States, that her citizenship was safe.
guard over the world Yet we have seen
your citizens and ours seized and chain
ed as lelons, pleading in vain, not only
their right OF citizenship, but in one case
even the passport of the government
committing the outrage They have
been subjected to cruetes and indigni.
ties, al the remembrance of which, the
blood of every American bols--and they
are kept in chains still, in very mockery
OF your government. The Texans have
armed in the common cause. They are
first n the field and call upon all who
please TO follow. We do not believe that
the spirit Of chivalry is so far dead, that
the invitatlonIwilI be unheard or disre>
garded.
AS the effect of your emigration will
BEL to place you in the ranks of war, it
becomes necessary to explain to you tho
principles upon which that war will be
conducted We intend first to repeI The .
INVASION now made upon cur country,