the watch words. And in you I confide[.]

Let the proclamation spread all through

the hills and woods of Colorado but this

____ [?] and we save our colony and our

____ [?] fellow citizens who have taken up

arms in the other side.

If the bearer wants a horse or

any thing to prosecute his trip furnish him

with it and any thing else that may be necessary[.]

Austin will be here among us by the time

of the meeting on the 7th[.] [H]e was at Mata-

moros on the 20th June.

Very respectfully yours

Samuel M Williams

Capt B Sims