The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 90
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
Convoy will be given to all transports of troops from Mobile or
New Orleans to Corpus Christi . . .
I have the honor to be,
Your most ob't servant,
Signed. GEO. W. HOCKEY,
Secretary of War and Marine.
A third order to Moore bearing the same date as the two already
given' directed him to enforce the blockade ordered by President
Houston on March 26, 1842. The causes leading to the proclama-
tion of this blockade of the Mexican ports are given in the intro-
ductory part of a pamphlet issued by President Houston as fol-
lows:'
My Countrymen :-Repeated aggressions upon our liberties-the
late insult offered by a Mexican force advancing upon Bexar-and
the perfidy and cruelty exercised towards the Santa Fe prisoners,
all demand of us to assume a new attitude--to retaliate our in-
juries, and to secure our Independence.
The attempt to secure peaceable recognition of independence
from Mexico was found to be futile. In a letter written to Barnard
E. Bee on February 6, 1842,8 Santa Anna said:
I fully appreciate the problematic conditions of Texas; and I
have before me the entire series of its consequences. I believe war
to be necessary. I believe it a measure indispensable to the salva-
tion of Mexico, and that her government will not faithfully per-
form her duties, if she does not strain her resources to the utmost,
boldly to enforce a full confession of her justice.
Commodore Moore remained a week at Galveston, and pursuant
to orders left on the 8th of May to fit out his vessels to enforce
the blockade. He remained on board the ship Austin, and took
with him the schooners San Bernard and San Antonio. To equip
and provision the vessels and to pay the officers and men required
a great deal of money, and Texan credit was low, but, while Moore
'Moore, To the People of Texas, 63. The order is printed with the
date May 3, 1843, but a note on page 201 corrects the date to 1842.
2Address of the President to the People of Texas, Apr. 4, 1842.
See Austin iity Gazette, March 23, 1842.
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