THE AUSTIN PAPERS 301 My own affairs go on badly liy Men have all been sick nearly three months and at the time when the boat might have been most profitably employed- - I am now in treaty with the Merch t 11 of this place to sell them half this boat to be run permanently ·between this and the Mouth of the river- if I effect this arrangement it will relieve me from my present confinement and perhaps enable me to visit your part of the Country if I do not effect it I shall take the boat to New Orleans as soon as I can and sell her to close the concern- . I regret ex- tremely the misfortune you have experienced in the death of your brother, it is indeed a severe blow to you under your present circum- stances- 11y lust letters bring me the :Melancholly intelligence of the death of 1\1:y :Mother it has been truly a severe year to the family God grant the next may prove l\1ore propitious HENRY AusTIN [Rubric]
H. H. LEAGUE TO AUSTIN
Town of Austin Deer i9. 1829.
Col STEPHEN F. AusTIN DEAR SIR l\1y Extreem bad health precludes the possibilitys of my Visiting your office as often as my business would require it after weighing the Subject maturely I find it n.Jl important for the interest of the Community to quiet the outrageous Clammer that actually threatens a.t this moment the Over throw of every thing and as a Step of Self preservation that I should by all means be Released from serveing· any longer as a Rigedore, it is impossible that my health can ever be restored under my present State of Depressed and mortified feelings, my hopes and prospects are all blasted; and my oppression is beyond the Controll of all the philosiph[y] and fortithde I can Call to my aid my health has actually Sunk, and unless I can produce a Change, the Consei- quences will be fatal to me and that Very Shortly, thare is no laber or fatigue I would not willingly under go for the advancement of the Country if my Exertions Could avail, but Such is the Violence of feeling Existing against me at this moment, that any interfear- ance with the publick business by me or Even· an Idea that I will interfear infuriates them to madness-it ·is .resolved that the next Ayuntamiento shall not be contaminated with my (Rascally intrigues) as they Say-, be the conseiquences wha,,t they may-, my own Idea is this, the 1~yuntamiento will dispence with my n:ieeting them on account of my bad health and if it is. possible for me to obtain Two month leave of Ab'lence from the Chief of Department.
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