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regard to the time they should deem the departure
of your Excellency to be proper. I am not sensible of
any "act of violence and abuse" to which you were exposed
that was not necessarily concomitant on your return to shore.

_______Your Excellency has acquired too great a celebrity
in Texas not to be an object of curiosity with the multitude
but I believe you will bear testimony to the magnanimity
which restrained a tumultuous and highly exasperated
crowd, from offering any indignity to your person.
If such outrage had been committed, it would have
been promptly chastised.__________________________________
____________________"The President & Cabinet" entertained
no intention of "making a show" of your Excellency whose
condition as a prisoner, has invariably commanded their
highest veneration and towards whom they have exhibit=
itid every attention that was compattible with their
official duties and within their power to bestow