Chambers's report, without the documents and vouchers by which he fortified it, is printed in the Telegraph and Texas Register, July 15, 1837. Burnet strongly insinuated that Chambers left Texas to avoid participating in the war, and thought it a piece of sentimentality in Congress to recognize in any degree his claims upon the government. His argument, briefly, was that Chambers had gotten his appointment from the Council while Texas was still fighting for the Constitution of 1824. He was, therefore, a Mexican officer. The Convention declared Texas independent in March, and the Constitution provided that all civil appointments of the provisional government should remain temporarily in force, but made no such provision for the military. Hence Chambers had no appointment at all.—Telegraph and Texas Register, August 26, 1837.
