THE AUSTIN PA.PERS 495 to you once for all that any plu.ce which I have you may have for a residence or farm or what you please-the place where I originally intended to settle all my family is at peach point below Brasoria, on the Sea Shore prairie at the edge of the timber 6 miles from the sea bench- Every body says it is the best land and the best situation in the colony- It is my first choice for a residence, and on Choco- late Bayou is my second choice- I need you here to take care of my pecuniary affairs- unless I have some one to manage them for me I shall be as poor as a church mouse as long as I live, but you must consult your own feelings and your own wishes and act for yourself. If you come here, all that I can do shall be done. I am expP.cting instructions as to the introduction of negros, and as I have now no hope of seeing you this fa,11 there will be time enough to send them to you before I leave here for Saltillo. My confidence in the ultimate rise and prosperity of this country is in no degree impared, it must prosper in the end- I have recd by the last mail the most friendly and satisfactory letters from Mr. Lucas Alaman the minister of state, and from the vice President Bustamante, and from Genl. Teran, they all say to me that this colony will be fully protected and encouraged by the Govt. and their confidence in me and in this colony is full and unimpaired and that they always have had confidence in me and the colony etc. these assurances are very flattering, and I think them sincere- :My election to the legislature will also place me on still higher ground, tho I think it very probable that some change may take place as to our local government Texas does not suit to be united with Coahuila- But I am running into the all absorbing subject of public affairs, and general interests a thing which has always occupied so much o1 my time that I have neglected my own private affairs in toto, and I fear will always neglect them unless you o.re here to manage them. I had determind.to put all my affairs of a private nature into your hands- I am laboring more for yours and Emilys children than for myself-what do I want with property or fortune? but little will do me, and every year less, for I am dayly getting more tired of the world and its entercourse and affairs-- however let no wish of mine influence you, do as you please-only never again think that I am silent or 1·eserved because I am not a great talker- I know not what else to say- I am opposed to your removing in the spring, tho if you put the family at Peach point I believe they will be [as] healthy as at any other place in the wood so do as you please ori that ~ubject- I shall be absent from here but that will make no difference I shall leave a full power of nttorney with Williams to deliver to you all notes due to me, as soon as you arriYe
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