THE AUSTIN PAPERS 823 Anahuac and concilliate the people there, and I believed he would- he was too much of a jack ass to be governed by reason or judge- ment, or anything else except brutal passion-I therefore could not foresee what has happened, and could not give you instructions in time- what I feared if the colonists took part in the civil wars was they would get into anarchy and confusion-but will come right now and we shall all pull heart and hand at one end of the rope. See Chrisman and have the Ayto. convened by wednesday or thurs- day at most-remember me to Mr. Greaves. I shall need his aid in the spanish line of business as soon as I get up. Speak to him on the subject. I refer you to Johnson for particulars as [to] our ar- rival here etc. I wrote from the mouth of the river the moment I landed and Cap John Austin directed a copy to be sent up, when he started down to meet us, which was clone, but it went up the river on the other side. • Col :M:exia would go up with great pleasure, but his fleet is anchored off and he is limited as to time,-he starts on Monday to embark for Galveston Bay, and will only be two days at Anahuac, as he last night recd. official information of the pronunciamto of that place under Ool Suveran. The report you speak of, that there had been a saqueo etc is all false. Suveran has written to Cap J. Austin and Lieut. Domingues is here direct from Anahuac- all goes well over there and Bradburn has taken to the brush. If Piedras refuses, we must and will fight him. All Texas must go together. I will write to him from San felipe and to Ayish bayou. SFA write to Gonzales and let them know what they ought to do- La constitucion y Santana.
AusTIN TO SAMUEL M. WILLIAMS
[From Williams Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Tex.]
Mr SAMUEL M. WILLIAMS Furnish the troops of Lieut. Col. Ugartechea two wagons and provisions to last to La Bahia an"d two hundred dollars in cash. I have recd. here two hundred dollars [more1] and will take them up with me-make contracts for•the waggons etc so as to get the proper vouchers. The provisions can be got in part on the road, some on Colorado and some on Navidad. Brazoria July 22 1832 S. F. A usTIN [Rubric] The waggons are needed to La Bahia-it probably will be the better plan to get them as far as Guadaiupe, and have them re-
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