THE AUSTIN PAPERS 779 tion with wars and rumors of wars cholera etc. Despotism is seek- ing its last vengeance in Spain and Poland, it is to be hoped. In cousequence immigrants are thronging to this .country. '"Where can they find such an asylum as Texas offers? How prophetic were your views! ,vith you, I am heartily sick of the old world and all its doings-the great tyrannies and the little ones. Pray be firm ugainst slavery. I witness such crnelties as fill me with abhorrence of rnyself and my species. How I long for our peaceful and simple and quiet life, where we ,vill admit no debasing passions. I will not aim at too much and I can not be disappointed. ::M:y personal wants are few. :My plan for a school is drawn up, but at the present it !'=hall remain in my escritoire. I can not forbear to give you an extract from a letter of Orville Holley about my work. . He says, " I intirely agree with you in your appreciation of Stephen Fuller Austin's character. He is to be ranked among the founders of Commonwealths, intrepid, interpriz- ing, benevolent and just-a man of sense and soul. I am not only pleased, but proud to be friendly and respectfully remembei'ed by such a man; and it will be among the many grateful considerations connected with whatever I may be able to do in the matter of this book, that it may serve in some degree to promote his just and sacred interests." He says he has half a mind to emigrate himself, sup- posing he could fix in some prairie, where be could gather his own .eggs, and after learning the bee business take his own honey etc., etc. I mean to return here in October when I will arrange the details for further operations. I can not now regulate everything, nor tel1 t-he moment of my going to the Colony. But I assure you, my [clear] cousin, that it will be at the first moment I am able, for there is nothing I so ardently long for- In the mean time the happiness of .being once more with my dear children will absorb me. If they were in Texas and I with them, I should not have a wish. My health is very good. May all happiness attend you-remember me kindly to yom· sister and family. Your cousin MAH Hubbard has his passport-He and John are well- [Adclressecl :] "Col:; S F Austin San Felipe de Austin Texas. Brazoria
AusTrn TO SA~IUEL l\f. ,vILLIA:.\[S
(From Wllllnms Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Tex.)
Matamoros June 15-1832
DR Sm. I left Saltillo on the 12th May-thence by Monterrey, Pelan, Linares, Victoria to the Hacienda del Cojo, the head quarters of
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