THE AUSTIN PAPERS 947 Mas en el empefi.o de este Deber Vmd. deve llevar constantemente en su memoria que sus conciudaclanos ban depositado en su integ-_ ridad y en su talento unn alta y santa confianza, y que V. guardara la mayor cnutela para no comprometerse en este punto. Deve tam- bien aceptar tales modificaciones 6 altercaciones condicionalmente y trasmitirlas a la Comision central. Llegando Vmd. claramente a entender que el Logro de nuestro grande objeto u saver, la aclmision de Tejas como Estado de la Federacion megicana es inasequible participara lo mas pronto posible este hecho a la Comision central y volvera cuanto antes al seno de sus conciudndnnos. Y ademns le encargamos corresponder regularmente con la. Comision central y avisar de tiempo en tiempo con el mas breve despncho por toda oportunidad de sus adelantos en su alta y impor- tante mision. · William H. Wharton presidente de la convencion. Thomas Hastings. Secretario de la Convencion. Es copia. de mis instrucciones de la convencion de Tejas. ESTEVAN F. AusTIN. (Rubrica.)
GEORGE F1sHER TO AusTIN
Monclova. 16th April 1833.
Col. S. F. A~~TIN.
San felipe. DEAR Sm. Enclosed I transmit you a Copy of a letter from our mutual friend Gral Jose Anto : Mexia directed to you; original of which I shall keep until I shall l1ave the oportunity of handing to · you personally. From this letter you will discover how erroneous an opinion you have formed of my going to Mexico and which upon the bare supposition of the" on dits" :from Matamoros you admitted as a. full fact, according to the contents of the Post Scriptwm to your Jetter of 4th Oct. 1832 directed to your corresponsal in Mexico, and of which likewise I ncompany you a copy with the note in which I received a Copy of said P. S. that you may see in what a miraculous :1ay it came to my hand, and to prove that no thing however secret it may appear or be treated with will remain for ever unre,ealed. I think my dear Colon 1 that I had reason to expect to be treated by you better than you have done, especially when yourself solicted and I acquiesced in the presence of our Mutual friend Dr Mauricio Hebenstreit in Matamoros, a. reconciliation, and hurrying into oblivion the pnst reciprocal acts of recrimination, at whose table we dined on said day. I :was expecting nnd believing that from that moment a new era comenced to exist between us, and that in future a most cordial disposition towards the interest of Texas and
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