The Government of this Province by their official letters dated
Bexar May 10. 1824 have informed me that the electorial Colledge
of this Province had on that day unanimously elected the Barron de
Bastrop the Deputy in the legislature of this Eastern internal State,
and the Lieutenant Colonel Subdeacon Don Juan Manuel Sambrano
Supernumary (Suplente) to said legislature—
Also that the most excellent Deputation of this Province have
declared war against the Toweass Indians in consequence of their
having murdered Peter Longueville an inhabitant of Bexar—
Also in answer to my Official letter giving an account of the
affair with the Carankaways in the bay Prairie the Government
approve to the mesage sent by me to the Chief of said Nation by
John Austin when he went to La Bahia which was that all Indians
of that nation caught on this side of the Guadaloupe would be
treated as enemies untill they came in and made peace and satisfied
the inhabitants of this Colony for the depredations committed on
the Colorado—which message the Government have ordered the
Alcalde of La Bahia to repeat to them—ordering me at the same
time in case of meeting any of said Indians to call them first as
friends before they are fired upon—
Also they inform me that a Regiment of troops is on the march
to this Province for the purpose of protecting it against the
Indians all which you will communicate to the inhabitants of the
district under your charge in the most public manner—
San Felipe de Austin May 25. 1824
Stephen F. Austin
To the Alcalde of St Felipe de Austin