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29 I returned to Galveston the end of June & found that HM Ship 'Victor' Capt Oleary there, having come to know as Texas had declared a blockade of the Mexican ports of the West Indian March to Mexico would be molested. Houston who was then at Galveston replied in the negative after days previously the french Consul 'Millibanks' had been there Texas had a small but effective navy & privateers in abundance might have been commissioned to inhibit Mexican commerce had such been the wish of Houston or if such had been his line of ? For the time being St. Johns day at Galveston in particular the Masonic body celebrated the anniversary. And here it may be mentioned that already nearly every town in the Republic had its Masonic lodge.

  There was much political commotion as it was on the eve of an extraordinary Session of Congress to be held at the City of Houston.   The War party said - Let us invade Mexico in the full - let us raise the Standard for an ? march & we shall soon have 20,000 Volunteers from the States - we will cross the Rio Grande & for the present make the Mountains of the Sierra Madre our boundary - and even at this period it ? out - that Houston's pacific proceeding was the forerunner of Annexation, but this did not so clearly appear then & the majority of the people upheld the Presdent - they in their turn