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it excites them, but it is rather expensive amusement. In proof of this even when Woll came in in the following Autumn, there was no pillaging, and had not the citizens been taken with in Arms, He would not in all probability made them prisoners - i.e. the Perote prisoners - His object was to prevent the West from becoming settled, to intimidate the foreign residents & scare if possible the Americans - & if there was a chance of getting to the then almost depopulated Austin, which was then the nominal Capital of the Republic & were [sic] the Archives were, rather to have destroyed those Records, or have taken them to Mexico - & to have trumpeteted for Victory. It is only 3 days march with an army to Austin - but his orders were to ? beyond Sn Anto - So I think the