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17.
offered
me a draft on New York for $3,796 and specie to
make up
six thousand dollars, or four thousand without the
draft, neither
would I take[.] [W]hen he rose to eight thousand,
which I would
not take, because he had promised to let me have
ten thousand
which I told him I must have, or I would take none[,]
efforts were immediately made to raise more, but
as they said,
without success, which I did not believe. I then
asked Genl
Anaya when I might possibly expect the balance of
the twenty
five thousand to be on board of the Zavala at the
Bar, in
order that I might report to my Government, to which
I
could get no satisfactory answer; upon which I told
him
that unless the pledges made by him to me were fulfilled,
the good feelings between the Federalists of Tobasco,
and the
Government of Texas would at once be at an end,
for I
would protect and secure myself; after which I left
him.
[P]roceeded immediately on board and had the Guns
loaded
with round and grape, and primed. That night at
1 o’clock
I received a message from the Provisional Governor,
through
his first Councillor [sic] (Mr Requenos) expressing
his regrets, that
anything should have occurred to affect the harmony
and
good feeling that had happily been established between
the people of Tobasco and our Squadron, and the
informa-
tion of a Revolution being underfoot which he feared
would
break out that night, or the next day[.] [T]he only
military man on
whom he could rely was ill in bed (Col Sentruanat)
and in
the event of its breaking out, the only hope was
the aid of our
squadron, and he requested to know if he could call
on me
to assist him in enforcing the laws of the State;
and hoped that
I would remain two or three days if possible, to
which I replied
that he might rely on me, and that I would with
pleasure
do all that I could to assist him in enforcing the
Laws, and
that I would remain, if tomorrow he still thought
it
necessary, although it was of the utmost importance
that
I should dispatch the Schr San-Bernard
to Texas, which
I could do by sending a canoe down to her.
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