1034
AMERICAN IDSTORICAL ASSOC,'JA'IION
I haYe requested '\Villiams to provide me with the means of living in ~Iexico, it is likely I may want as much as one thousand dollars, tho I do not know. Collect all the stock you can in claims due me and put them on your farm at Chocolate Bayou, in your own bran<l--call on "Williams for the claims and hire some one to collect them. When I return I wish to make my home at your home and hope you will have a room or cabbin for me. I send you some seeds of a beautiful tree in shape like a lombardy poplar, in foliage like a cedar~ow them-in a bed like pepper seed-raise the bed so that the water will not lay on it-water them in dry weather, protect them from frost in the winter -when young, and from the hot sun in the middle of the clay, by a bush or mat. They will do to transplant the second or third year-take special care of them. I have many seeds and my miniature taken in ~Iexico bv Wm Howard who intends to visit Texas. I recommend him to y~u very particularly. I cannot send these things to you now. So will give away the seeds and take the miniature to ::\Ienco again. You have suffered a great affliction since I left in the loss of dear little ~Ia.ry, and in the sweep made by the cholera-it is dreadfull but without remedy-my good friends John AU5tin, Westall, and many others are gone. I sympathize sincerely with you all-poor Henry too has his share and more than a share of affliction-it is dreadful! indeed. Remember me to :Mrs. Westall-to the )IcXiels. and )fun.son, to Phillips and Eliza, and do not let little Stephen ~d your children forget me, I hope they will some day be benefited by my labors. remember me to Henry particularly-I ha,e not recei,ed a line from vou since I left home Cotton is worth about 30 cents in San Luis Potosi-the freight from Tampico is from eight to nine dollars a. hundred. If you wish for information write to Dall and Drege in San Luis Potosi-Henry knows them God bless vou-farewell-your brother .. . It is verv rare that a man who labors for the ~n. 1 ~ood of thou- sands, or for a whole country, can esc:1pe per:3e~utio; and detrac- tion-no man did more good than De lr itt Cli-n~on for the 5t:.1te of Xew York, bnt, he did it n,..ainst a torrent of abu5e sh nder :.ind oppo~ititn1. • S mi t 11. th<' fnth~r and ch:nnpit,n of the infa.nt colony at Jamestown in Yirgini11 was OYl'll b:rnisht'd ln· tht~"' whom he bad bbor'd for. Party S})irit 1,nd e-111·y only SN:" wi;h their own eyes a~d for their own end~-thl'Y nr(' ~Yt'rvthin,.. th:\t is un('h:1.rirnble roalig- nan;, selfi~h nnti mol'l\i nnd anti hon~t-the m::1ss of the people,
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