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AMEBJCAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN TO SAJIIUF.L M. WILLIAJ\IS (From Williams Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Tex.]
Leona Vicario Feb. 5. 1831
DRSm
In my letter to Johnson I have snid all there is to say, about public matters-we get on slowly, but I think I shall succeed on the mnin point, which is the Judiciary. I have been fortunate so far, in keeping n harmonious understanding with all, and shall endeavor to continue it. The petitions for land will all be dispatched next week. The office has been searched for your petition in vain, it can- not be found. This morning I told the secretary that I would pre- sent another petition as your agent, he said that he would look once more, and if the other could not be found that I co11lcl present a new one, and the Govr has promised that it shall be immediately dispatched. So that you may consider the thing as ce1·tain. Those who asked for large quantities will get what ought to satisi-y them, and if they hncl confined themselves to reasonable bounds at first their petitions would have been granted long since. Father Muldoon leaves tomorrow for Monterrey, he appears to be a true Austinian and I think he is sincere for he has obtained a large bite of land from the Govr and looks to Texas as his only home, and final resting place. Chambers has been bedevilled here, by delays of one sort or an- other, and is not yet dispatched by the tribunal and probably will not be for a month to come. The obstacle to his admission as a lawyer now is, the want of his certificate of baptism. Tomorrow he presents a petition to Congress to dispence with that requisite, and he will then be exam 4 by the judges. I think he will be a usefull man in Texas. Matters are doubtfull in Mexico. The partisans of Pedraza are bcgining to make a great noise and you need not be much sur- prised if he should come on by land through Texas-if so treat him with all possible respect and attention for he is justly entitled to it. It is said that Teran is going to Texns soon. :M:y confidence in him is still unimpaired, I believe he is the best amol)g them all. A num- ber of the first men in Mexico have obtained 11 League Grants in Texas. There is a rwn·or here which I do not like, which is that Zavala is on the way to Texas, and Teran is going to repel him by force. I know not where the rumor came from. I hope it is not so for I do not wish to see the civil war of the Mexicans introduced into Texas. Say nothing about it, for it is only vague rumor. I wrote you from Monclova-from here by Jose Luis Carbajal [?] by whom I sent the white horse, also the last mail-you have nc-
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