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THE AUSTIN PAPEBS
THOMAS G. WESTERN TO AUSTIN
Goliad Jan. 19- 1833
Col AUSTIN
D. Sm, I hasten before the Mail closes to communicate to you the import of A letter I have this Moment recd. from My friend at Mexico elated 26 ult. "Gen. Pedraza with all the armies combined, now at Puebla and its vicinity will commence their March to Morrow on the road to This Capital, they amt. to 13000 Men and will come in without opposition-President Pedraza was ·sworn in and proclaimed as Such Yest~rclay in Puebla·- An order has been Made public that when he arrives within Six leagues of this City every Military officer here must present himself on pain of losing his rank and pay- Something Similar for all empleados- 1Ve consider the war at an end." The Ayuntamiento of this Town forward by this Mail to that of yours Copy of the Remonstrance Made to Congress in Sequence to that of Bejar, it touches Stronger that its preceder 1 on the division of the State and other topics and I think you will be pleased with the language used and the terms it is couched in and hope it will meet your ideas. Be pleased to favor me_with your opinion on it as a whole- THOMAS G. WESTERN [Rubric]
IRA INGRA!£ TO AusTIN
Matagorda Jan. 20th 1833.
Colo. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN, Sm, Your letter of the 14th inst., was handed me late, last eve- ning. Of the letter which you mention, as having been written from La Bahia, I lmow nothing; never having seen, or heard, of such a letter, till I perused yours from San Felipe, of the date above quoted. As to the letter from th'is place, of which you speak, as having seen at La Bahia, and which you say you "burnt;" unless it was one· written by myself, signed by me, and no one else, addressed to Mess. Leving, Morehouse, and other Americans, resident, as transient, in that place, I must also remark, that I !mow nothing. If it was my letter which you saw, and which you "burnt," as it was addressed to all the americans there it became, as soon as received by them, their C07T//mon property, a~d if they thought proper to ,destroy it, the act of doing so, furnishes no just cause of complaint on niy part.
1 Seo Musquiz to Governor, Jan. 10, 1833. No copy or this document hna been found.
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