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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
came, altho it is three months since your arrival in Saltillo nnd six weeks since my letters on this subject. :My friend is getting uneasy at these consular notices, impatient of so much delay and has gone to dny to attend the snle of a sugar plantation. If he buys jt it will absorb 200,000 dollars of his Capital and I shall be thrown out of the saddle after nll besides if the minist.ers construction of the lnw is to obtain, we cannot get a legal title to land enough to [settle] the manufactory upon. However whichever way things turn I must take a hand in the game somehow or other. I hope I may soon hear from you as I have already been here two months on expense nnd must soon be in action or raise the wind. HENRY Aus1'IN [Inclosurc]
COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE MEXICAN CONSUL
New Orleans :M:arch 30-1831.
Mr J. W. BREDL-OVE Srn· . I have rec 4 your letter of this morning in answer to it I inform you that I will have no kind of objection to give passports to any person whatsoever, if you will send me by those Persons an assurance that they a.re going to ~fr Austins Colony to settle, It has never been my intention to refuse granting passports to Persons going to Texas on their private business or·with a view of seeing the country. FnAN° P1zARRO 1\-.L\nTINEZ [By Henry Austin:] ps April 2 4 -I have just recd your favor of March 5 th Mr "'\V hns not yet concluded the purchase of the Sugar plantation but is in treaty for it I may yet do something with him. Tailor has purchased nnd paid 50.000$ cnsh-I shall leave this for the colony shortly. The consular notices and reports that Mexican troops in great numbers are pouring into the colony are doing much harm. Morgan and Reed have given up their in- tention of going out nltho they had made purchases and Reed bad come from North Carolina. The consul told them they could not take their negroes there on any terms-and that Gen 1 Teran was going to the colony to inforce the law and set all negroes free that had been taken there contrary to law etc. I find it in vain to combat the many reports afloat here, some of which are that the colonists will have to fight for their lands or lose them, that the Govt is determined to drive them out etc. These reports have a bad effect every way, those who have money do not J.Urn -~o J~zard ~t "'.P.er,e t)lei:e is b11t l~ttle se_curi~y.
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