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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
favor of a repeal of the 11 Article of the law of 6 April. I have overy confidence that, that law will be modified. I shall probably be in Saltillo in July where I shall expect letters from you, giving me the news as to how the colony is getting on. I hear you had a very wet spring and have fine prospects for crops. Gen 1 :Mason has succeeded in part in getting the New York Com- pany business arranged, and I think they will go on with the settle- ment of those colonies by europeans. Remember me particularly to Padre :Muldoon and all others. These long trips in the sun through such a wilderness as this coun- try totally destitute of every comfort for the traveller, are truly wearisome to the body, to the health, to the patience and to the mind, but if I can do any good to the colony I shall feel myself well com- pensated for all. S. F. AusTIN [Rubric] [Addressed:] Mr. Sam M. vVilliams San Felipe de Austin
AusTIN TO HonATIO CHnIEsl\fAN
[From Wllllnms Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Tex.)
:Matamoros June 19. 1832
H CHRIEs:M:AN Esqr
Prest of the Ayuntamto
Dr Srn.
[I] arrived here a few days since, [and] as I must [be] in Saltillo by the 28 August when the Legislature will have its first or prepnra• tory meeting, I have concluded not to return home until after the September session. I am happy to hear that harmony prevails [among the people and that pros]pects of crops are good The [political disturb?]ances in J\1exico will I think end very favorably for the [cause] of liberty, and there is well founded cnuse to expect a republican administration after the next election. - I [believe] the next President will [not] be a [militar]y man-in fact the power [of the mili]tary is dayly becoming more [weak1 I] mean its moral, power. All [the bes]t men of the nation are becoming [convinced] that there can never be harmony nor liberty, nor even a republican gov[ernment] untill the military authority is subjected to the civil authority, and the army reduced. [I] believe this to be one of the main objects of what is called the Santana Party-that party will certainly get into power, and [if] there was only _[o. Th]omas Jefferson Am[ericann to place at the helm, Mex1~o would be free and its republican institutions established on a soh_d basis--but where is such a man to be found-[certainly1] not in this
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