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THE AUSTIN PAPERS AUSTIN TO SAl\IUEL M. ,v ILLIA:MS
[From Williams Pape1·s, Rosenberg Library, Ga!TI!Ston, Tc:r.J
Mexico Augt. 28. 1833
Dr Sm.
I fenr that your detention in mobile will do some harm-you know that in October the time expires for locating grants-have all that attended to and take care not to forget Padillas. I have three leagues out of his which I <lo not wish to loose-also attend to my title for the balance of my premium land. The cholera is abatincr but there has been no session of congress . 0 smce the 14 and it is expected there will [be] no business done until next month. It is said that upwards of 16.000 have died. The revolution is not yet ended. Arista has possession of Guana- juato and there are a variety of reports about the progress of the Crusade party, but I do not think they can succeed. .The civil war may probably be protracted sometime. I can say nothing definite as to Texas matters-they are all before congress but when there will be a session I lmow not-neither is there nny certainty at all, what congress will do as to Texas. I have strong doubts on the subject. Tadeo Ortiz has been sent to the U. S. by Gornrnment on some mistcrious mission, but what it is I cannot tell-some say it is to take Poles, or Germans or somebody else to Texas to clam out the north americans-stop the mississippi river with a dam of straw-he told me he would be in Texas in Novr. and I think he is friendly to the people there and liberal in his ideas etc •nothinrr of much interest hns . 0 transpired since my last-all is suspended by the cholera-all is melancholy with death and civil war. I am better but debilitated S.F.A Do not neglect the tract that Brown surveyed east of colorado foot of mountains-one of H. Austins is not yet located. Close all up as fast as possible-no one can tell what is ahead.
AUSTIN TO SAMUEL M. WILLTAl\IS
[ From WHJinms Pnpers, Rosenberg Library, ~alvestoo, Te:r.J
Mexico September 5. 1833
Dr Sm , I nm in better spirits as to the result of our Texas matters, than I have been in since mv arrival-a material change hns been effected in the minds of several lendino- men on that subject and I now think that there will be no mnteri~l opposition to the repeal of the 11
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