The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 104
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
than Moore? Their instructions read that "should sickness or any
other cause prevent the commissioners from acting jointly, they or
either of them, may act in all things separately and singly, but not
adversely." Another point in their written instructions was as
follows: 'Should Post Captain E. W. Moore, not forthwith render
obedience to the orders of the department with which you are
furnished, you will have published in one or more newspapers, in
the city of New Orleans my proclamations."
On March 10, Moore wrote a letter to the secretary of war and
marine2 fully explaining his plans and purposes and his obliga-
tion to comply with his agreement with the Yucatan government.
The arrangement, he said, was one greatly to the advantage of
Texas, and could be ended any time that Texas so desired.
On April 3, 1843, Moore received from Acting Secretary of War
and Marine Hamilton, in a letter dated March 21, 1843, the follow-
ing order :s
In consequence of your repeated disobedience of orders, and fail-
ure to keep the Department advised of your operations and pro-
ceedings, and to settle your accounts at the Treasury, within three,
or [at] most six months, from the receipt of the money which has
been disbursed, as the laws require, and as you were recently or-
dered to do, you are hereby suspended from all command, and will
report forthwith, in arrest, to the Department in person.
On receipt of this Commodore Moore at once wrote the following
letter to the commissioners :4
TEXAS SLOOP OF WAR AUSTIN,
New Orleans, April 4th, 1843.
Gentlemen-
The communication, dated 21st March, from the Department of
War and Marine, was handed to me by one of you on the evening
of the 3rd instant, and as there has been and is a singular erro-
neous opinion in the mind of the Executive in relation to my acts
and motives, both of which are most seriously impugned, in order
'Cong. Globe, 33d Cong., 1st Sess., App., 1081.
'Moore, To the People of Texas, 137-138.
'Moore, To the People of Texas, 139-140.
'Moore, ibid., 140. See also Cong. Globe, '33d Cong., 1st Sess., 2166;
Moore, Doings of the Texas Navy, 11-13.
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