38Butler to Jackson, December 19, 1835, in Bassett, Correspondence
of
Jackson,
V, 381-382. This letter of Butler's was read by R. J. Walker in
the Senate on May 9, 1836, as an argument for the immediate recogni-
tion of Texas. Cong.
Globe,
24 cong., 1 sess., 436-437; a more detailed
account of Walker's reading of the Butler letter, and the effect produced,
is given by a Washington correspondent in National
Gazette
(Phila.),
May 12, 1836. A German gentleman, who, at Mexico City at the time,
was informed of Santa Anna's declarations by the British Minister, visited
New Orleans later, and there gave out the substance of Santa Anna's
threatening remarks in terms practically identical with Butler's report
of them. See El
Correo
Atlantico
(New Orleans), May 2, 1836. Cf.
Santa Anna's similar comment on the boundary matter in dispatch of
February 16, 1836, to the Mexican Secretary of War, in C. E. Castañeda,
ed., The
Mexican
Side
of
the
Texas
Revolution,
69.
