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can or will be clone afterwards and perhaps a stopper will be appliecl sooner owing to the hubbub between B. [Bradburn] and M. [Madero] push this business if everything else is neglected. , Keep a dead silence as to politics and public men-read over my letters by the two last mails more is meant there than is plainly ex- pressed-also the one to Luke. Don't form opinions about others hastily by appearances. I approve highly of what you said to B[radburn1] and P[ieclras1]. Report says that Gen 1 Teran goes to Bejar in all this month, it is also reported that his family is on the way from Mexico to acompany him. I know nothing of the tmth of these rumors. About 300 recruits passed here last week for Bejar, and more are expected (Send this paragraph in confidence to Judge 1Villiams with my respects)-,Vhat the people on Trinity ought to say, is that they cannot and ought not to take any part in any quarrel between any two officers or authorities, unless officially called on to do so by the competent supe1·ior authorities. If they take sides, they will in the end,be kicked by both sides as a person who intermeddlei: in a Quarrel between man and wife. I shall leave [George] Fisher to the coiony, if the people there do not think that I merit their support, I ·will submit, for it will con- vince me that justice, honor, and gratitude, have abandoned the earth. Don't neglect the reserves of land I requested you jn my last letter to make. Request Arciniega not to name the town on coloraclo untill I get home. I send the grants that are made, I do not know whether any nre missing, but think that Goves [Jones1] is: tho I am not certain if it was se~t for I have no li~you can say to those that are missing if any, that they are not granted, and will not be, for the present Govr will not grant any augmentations. I will try and get the Mexican Domingues through but the others are hopeless and you cnn say so at once to the interested persons, so that they need i:iot blame me. We have had a very c:old winter-three snows of 4 to 6 inches. I have a bad cold and am in bad health. I fear that Chambers will fail and if so he talks of not returning, I shall try to remove this · idea---he is a man who has many, very many good and valuable qualities. I am more and more pleasecl with him every day, and hope he will not abandon Tejas as he sometimes talks of doing-he has taken up an erronious opinion about his standing there-he thlllks that the most of you in San Felipe are his enemies, and are jealous of him, l ~~ve told him that the:re is nothing of the kind now-he
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