THE AUSTIN PAPERS 315 the unlimited confidence of Guerrero. Should I get anything of importance, [I shall] loose no time in communicating it. Brother Henry writes from l\fotamoras Dec. 2d that, that country hereto- fore so healthy, the last of September a flood came in, which would have enabled him to go quite to Sante Fe, but he was unable to avail himself of it, for it brought with it a pestilence which pros- trated every body and that he was the only one of the boat's crew who escaped it. He had made a second trip to Camargo and on his return trip had but two well men and when he wrote was thus unable to move the boat as his engineer and men were too feeble to do anything. I hope you have communicated with him as it might prove mutually advantageous. JorrN P. Aus'l'IN. [Rubric] Col. Stephen F. Austin, San Felippe de Austin, Texas.
Eow ARD L. PETIIT ·rn AUSTIN
January 2, 1830.
See Calendar.
H. H. LEAGUE TO AUSTIN l
Col. STEPHEN F. AusTIN-
DEAH Sm but a short time since lvI• Nester Clay came to this place. I accidentally fell in his company, and he told me he had been wishing to speak to me on the subject of the Tax law and pro- ceeded to make many violent remarks amongst which was the following: I will never pay one cent of the taxes while I am able to raise arms against ·it the best men in the country will oppose it with force and arms. You would be astonished to know who they· are. You had better pay it yourself if it costs u.11 you are worth, than to attempt collecting the Taxes, by God we will hitve a Boston Tea Scrap of it-, we will come armed and show you whether you will collect it. I lrnow my neighbo1;s will join me 1 and if you report us in a state of rebellion, we will take no other notice of you than to Tar and feather you, u.ncl many other remarks of a similar kind. Mr. T. :rvr. Duke and H. Cheves was present and paid atten- tion to the conversation, he is the sort- of chnractors that has always kept this community in an uproar, and has always broke down order and established confusion it is my duty as nn officer of this munici- pality to inform yon of all such outrage, for now is the time to put a check to Such Charactors, this is therefore to inform your self
1 Compare Austin to Bell, Mar. 17 and Apr. 4, 1829.
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