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and other timber-the Tariff of Mexico causes "Domestics " to sell high and as the restrictive System appears to have become a part of the national policy, fair prospects may be calculated on for the manufacturer for Many years to come. [Deleted :] I would very freely engage in an establisl1ment.of this kind and nothing but my being tied down here with colonizing matters prevents my visiting the north[ern] States of that union with the view of trying to form a large manufacturing company in Texas. [Added in a copy-apparently made by J. E. B. Austin:] It will afford me much pleasure to become acquainted with the house in Philadelphia with which you are concerned in colonization and to render them any aid iii my power in forwarding the settlement of Texas. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN.
GASPAR FLORES TO AUSTIN
Bexar: July 9, 1829.
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DAVID G. BURNET TO AUSTIN
Cincinnati 18 July 1829
MY DEAR Srn
I received your very welcome favor of 29 May but yesterday-it came by mail from Orleans and I have not heard a Syllable of the Doctor and his lovely Bride- Major Lewis has this moment left me and is on the wing for the Brasos I regret exceedingly that I have not more time to devote to my Texas friends by this very favorable opportunity- You mention havino- received one letter ~ and some newspapers why I have written a dozen or thereabouts and sent as many packages of papers To League I have written oftener and Sent more pa.pers and I l1ave not yet received one line from him- I hope the Sove'reigns will be cl,ivil him worse than ever- he is a Shabby fellow- Have you hen.rd of the. terrible Ravanna Armada- are you prepared for itr- I believe it is all Smoke or will end so- or perhaps is desi~ed as a Scare-crow to obtain a favorable com- mercial treaty privileges etc on condition of recognition- I am fully sensible of the necessity of being in my Colony and design to repair there as soon as practicable The late disturbnnce at Mexico gave me a very serious back set from which it hns been difficult to recover- I had a very respectable company in full progress of formation when the news or wars ancl revolutions and insurrections dispersed them like a hawk p~uncing upon a flock of
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