THE AUSTIN PAPERS 1057 I wrote to you several months ago-I wish that you would answer
that Letter-and favorably too. Long life and prosperity to you.
H MEros
Col. Stephen Austin [Addressed:] Colonel Stephen Austin San Felipe de Austin Texas
[Inclosure]
Department of State Washington, 26th May, 1834.
The Honorable John Forsythe, Senator of the United States. SIB:
I have the honor to inform you that in compliance with the request in your letter to me of the ll:>th instant, an instruction of the character sug- gt'Sted by you hns been addressed to our diplomatic representative at Mexico. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, Lours McLANE The answer to my letter asking interference for your friend Austin FORSYTH. [Indorsed :] H. Meigs 1834
JAMES LADD TO AUSTIN
Dover, N. H., ~fay 30, 183-1-.
See Calendar.
AUSTIN TO OLIVER JONES l
En Inquisicion :Mexico :May 30th 1834
Mr. OLIVER JONES
Sm I am still in prison and I can form no idea when I shall be at liberty When I left Texas in April 1833 the position taken by the people was that the evils that threatened that country with ruin must be removed by the Government or the people [would] remedy them t?emselves and ought to do so as in that case they would have the right to do it. I sustained this position as the agent of the people firmly both verbally and in writing before the ministers and the Vice President and also in my letter to the Ayuntamiento of Bexar of 2nd of Oct. last I represented my constituents as they were when I left them, and as I had right to believe they continued to be; re- gardless of my personal safety liberty or life, it was my duty so to 1 Copy by Moses Austin Bryan.
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