you to consider ·this letter as ·your full and ample credentials to the Government on behalf of the authority vested in you by this Body, so we also beg that you will as Gentlemen well lmown to us, and entitled to every respect and consideration from the Gov- ernment, use every exertion for the attainment of the object of your m1ss1on. Tnos. M. DuKE [Rubric] i1atagorda July 28th 1834 Pres of A.yuntamto Miguel S. Rhoads Fisher [rubric] Secretary
HENRY AUSTIN TO JAMES F. PERRY
Brazoria 28 July /34
Mr J F PERRY l\1Y DEAR Srn My letters by the last arrival give me strong hopes that Stephen will soon be with us-1\·fr Stone late consul from Vera- cruz whom I know writes to my friend and old copartner when in Veracruz now consul in New York that he pns'<l a day with Santa .Ana before he left for ·:Mexico that he spoke without reserve of Texas and Col Austin sa.icl the people o-f Texns had been shamefully ~illifyd that he was certain they had no intention to revolt-that Col Austin had been Cl'!.!elly and Inaliciously treded, that he should liberate him on his arrival and make him all the reperntion in his power-that he would see the people·of Texas protected in their rights and property and much more to the same purpose,- On the arrival of the June Packet the :Mexican minister then at Philadelphia wrote lo the Consul in New York saying he was in- formed of the intention of the president to liberate Col A and wished to know if he the consul had re<;eived by the packet any cer• tain accounts of its having been cartied into effect-but the letter by the packet from Dale Parrot & Co were silent about him, altho they had never failed to mention him in former letters, had any evil befallen him it would certainly have been mentioned, the pre- sumption is that he was free and off. Great excitement existed in the U S on the subject, :Meigs says "Brother Forsyth of the Senate used all his influence to bring the influence of the Govt to bear on the subject"- _ I -want much to come and see you and Cousin Emily, but my daughter Hennrietta is sick and ~ ought to·have been home today- I shall move to M ontpelie1' within a week if no new disaster occurs :My best regards to Emily H A.usTIN [Addressed:] Mr. J F Perry Peach Point [Rubrir.1
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