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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
from becoming a resident of that land, so that I feel myself prepared to suffer many trying inconveniences. I have attended to my profes- sion, which has been that of the Law, tho I have had in the last few years experience in mercantiling pursuits- I am now engaged in the profession of Law in this place. I shall await the recpt. of your Letter with some impatience, and I must again beg you to excuse the liberty- I have taken in troubling you on this subject. OLIVER p. JACKSON [Addressed:] Col. Stephen Austin San Felippe Texas.
CHARLES ,v. ,:v EBBER To A usTrN
Columbia Tennessee
February 15th 1833.
DR. SIR
This letter will be handed you by my friend Col. William K Hill of this place, he is on a visit to Texas for the purpose of making a permanent location for himself and .family; You will find him n gentleman of intelligence, and every way worthy of your attention and friendship, he has been for several years clerk to the Senate of this State And discharged his duties with approved ability and skill; .:M:y name may almost be forgotten to you, but I anticpate it will call up some pleasant recollections of days long gone by, dnys that were probably the happiest of our lives, for it is true that the days of our boyhood are freer from care, pain, disappointment, and regrets than those that succeed them- I well remember the thoughtlessness and gayety of your life when boarding at my fathers in Kentucky and going to school to old Wil- son; you were then happy, particularly so when you had your flute in your hand, and seemed not to care for the future, Your pur- suits, thoughts, feelings, and all, are now changed; "\Vhether your pleasure or happiness may have been promoted by the vicissitude-- or not you can easily .answer. But enough of moralizing. I see from the papers of the day that you anticipate a convention in Texas, and intend probably to declare yourselves Independent of Mexico. I heartily wish you may succeed in the attempt and be enabled to maintain that Independence- If you should succeed and estab- lish a liberal Republic, thousands in the West would immediately become citizens of it. I have long had a great desire to settle in Texas, but am restrained from doing so by reason of the form of the government principally, I most cordially wish yon health, happiness and prosperity,-! should be much gratified to receive from you a detailed statement of the views and objects of the citizens in having a convention and
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