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all kind of business is suspended. I must wait untill the cholera subsides. I fully believe that 11 article of law of 6 april 1830 will be repealed in a few days after business is resumed again and the state question I think will be placed on favorable grounds and will also succeed-tho I may be deceived. Sterling Robinson [Robertson] has presented to the State Govt a long memorial about his business _in which there are depositions taken before Chrisman to prove that he introduced a great number of settlers which I took away from him etc. how he could get men to state such falsehoods or agents to advocate and arrange them I am at a loss to imagine-it has really surprised me-it seems that I shall never learn to suspect mankind or to know, untill I am driven into mysanth[r]opy. . As to the man you talked with at orleans who said he would take a difl'erent course and induce his brother to do so-I can only say that God can certainly change the negro to a white man, but that is a miracle not common in our days. what I mean is that envy, jealoucy, malignity when once deeply fixed in the human heart and fostered by boyish and silly vanity, are not easily rooted out, nor easily controuled. The holders of 11 L. grants ask three four and even $10000 for them-que tal-many of them will be Jost for october is the limit for the locations. I am anxious to secure the 11 L tract surveyed by Brown east of colorado foot of mountains, do not neglect this and put it in the name of Jose :Maria Aguirre in preference to the others-attend to them all~ I want that place to get out of trouble for I mean to go and live there-it is out of the way and will do for an academy scheme with which I can amuse myself and do good to others. I have not seen Gen :Mexia he is w1th Santana-Zavala is at Toluca, has only been a few hours in :Mexico since I arrived he will be.in after the cholera is over. l\1exia is the most firm repub- lican there is in this country and I believe one of the most honest and best men in it-they are both friends of the state question. Don Victor has been more bitter than anyone rhave heard of-he is now much softened down and is not a violent enemy. He is a decided friend to the repeal of the april law. • _ Close all the important colony business as quick.as possible, and keep clear of speculators, they are friends ·just so long as is neces- sary to get a bold on one, by which ruin or disgrace can be brought on and no longer-caution John against all i3peculators and take care not to involve me or my name. I had rather herd with vermin than with that class of human beings. Write to· Perry that I am
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