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Discuss any amendments or reasons for being for or against in the discussion. Do not comment on this announcement. The bill is about accepting the free africans with the mormons into Texas or not due to the fact that under the Texas constitution it requires a Joint Resolution to accept free africans into the Republic.

Due to a lack of constestment in the final tally, the supporters of Philip Jackson rejoice as he was selected as the House of Representative's Speaker and will head up the debates in the House as well as appoint any members as needed to House Committees.

The people of the Mormon faith brought to Texas by Joeseph Smith have been given a government protected home at New Jerusalem. 4 million acres have been awarded to Mr. Smith for his distributing amongst his followers as he sees fit. Lesser men might attempt to hoard that amount of land for themselves but I believe Mr. Smith is a fair and just man who will do good here in Texas. Now that the Mormons have been officialed signed the land any attempts to drive them off or otherwise intimidate them into leaving will now be unlawful. The Mormon's land rights are now to be defended by the Government of Texas as equally as any other's.

The Holy, Sacred, Divine Seeking Prophet Joseph Smith has lead the Mormon people from the lands of Illinois to the sweet land of milk and honey forevermore the Republic of Texas, where his 20,000 Mormon migrants 12,000 of them being good Christian Caucasian folk and 8,000 of them being free negroes who converted to the way of true Christians are now entering the Republic of Texas. They have requested citizenship and set plans to settle an area in North-East Texas that was surveyed by a Warren Angus Ferris, they have named the settlement New Jerusalem, much to the dislike of a local frontiersmen John Neely Bryan who was planning to set up a small town called Dallas.

They seem to be a closed economic model for some reason which gives Joseph Smith an alarming ability to rapidly build a small urban settlement here, he has put in all the proper requests for a City Charter and what not and how the Republic of Texas responds to a mass Mormon Migration is up to them.

As it stands with me and my troops in the south defending from Mexico I am not going to have the time or rescources to run a chair however I will guarantee my support and what troops and munitions I can to you as a friendly gift. I am dropping from the race and will be positing my dropping publicly within a couple days when I have time to write my statement.