The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 179
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Recognition of the Republic of Texas by the U. S. 179
it was reported that the commissioners had arrived at their destina-
tion.1
But in the meantime they had not been idle. In all the larger
cities2 they addressed enthusiastic gatherings, with the direct re-
sult that hundreds of volunteers, armed and equipped by contribu-
tion, flocked to Texas.8 Even the ladies of Nashville offered the
means with which to equip one company.4 Resolutions, praying
the recognition of Texas, were drawn up at these meetings and
sent to Congress. Money, too, was offered on such advantageous
terms5 that the commissioners were encouraged to recommend to
their government the issue of scrip bearing only five per cent in-
terest and redeemable in tracts of 640, 320, and 160 acres at $1.00
per acre, to be located after all land claims had been definitely and
finally settled.( Indeed from the time they reached New Orleans
until they arrived in Washington the commissioners wrote always
in the same cheerful tone. From Nashville, February 16, they re-
ported to Governor Smith: "It is with the most lively sentiments
of gratitude toward the patriotic and generous citizens of this free
'G. C. *Childress to President Burnet, March 28, 1836, Garrison, Dip.
Cor. Tex. I, 74; Austin, Wharton, and Archer to William Bryan, March
31, Austin Papers.
'Their route lay through Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pitts-
burg.
"The great majority of these volunteers, however, did not reach Texas
until after the battle of San Jacinto, and their presence in the country
then proved to be a great menace.
'Austin, Archer, and Wharton to, Governor Smith, February 16, 1836,
Garrison, Dip. Cor. Tex. I, 66-69; Austin to Owings, February 12, 1836,
ibid., 69-70.
'For some reason, though, nothing came of it; for Burnet, in an article
written August 10, 1836, printed in the Telegraph and Texas Register,
August 26, 1837, says that the commissioners traversed the United States
from New Orleans to New York and (excluding the loans secured in New
Orleans) were able to raise only $10,000, which came from New York
(see below, p. 186). They were offered $50,000 in Mobile on the same
terms as the New Orleans loan, but they then believed money could be
secured to better advantage (Austin, Archer, and Wharton to Governor
Smith, February 16, 1836, Garrison, Dip. Cor. Tex. I, 67). As another
method of raising money the commissioners upon 'the recommendation
of H. R. W. Hill, whom they had appointed as Texan agent in Tennessee,
decided to have the Texan government issue treasury notes. Without
awaiting the consent of the government they proceeded to take the
necessary steps (Austin, Archer, and Wharton to Governor Smith, Feb-
ruary 24, 1836, ibid., 71).
'Austin, Archer, and Wharton to Governor Smith, February 16, 1836,
Garrison, Dip. Cor. Tex., I, 67-68. Compare these terms with those of the
first loan as given above, p. 175.
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