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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
the best understanding between us wus to commence. But low behold what must have been my feelings at the receipt of the letter of which under No. 2 I send you a copy.? I ask what would have been yours? and what supposition could you form, upon the in- vestigation that said letter was directed to :Mangino. \Yith what view and intention? :My dear Sir do not believe that I am of yesterday and that I cannot guess at things if you <lo, you are sadly mistaken. It is very well known to you and to you only, that had I been disposed, I could and can yet shake the foundation of your Colony, and your individual welfare, you also know that I had more than sufficient reasons for doing so, for you very well know that you was the Instigator and promoter of all the mobs against me in Tejas, that I should have had no difficulty with no person but lived in perfect peace and quietness in Tejas, with my family. The unjust persecutions put on foot by your associates through your instiga- tion have destroyed that peace, have ruined my interest, have kept me separate 3 Years from my family, and their happiness destroyed, My defenseless and abandoned children cry unto heavens for venge- ance for such acts of injustice. I alone possessed more than a comon share of patience and forbearing have said nothing to justify myself of the many foul charges alleged against me, and why? is it becose it is not in powed No, it is because I would not [s]trew firebrands into your colony altho you charged me with it in your letter directed to Col. Br~dburn from Brasoria on the 24th Dbre 1832. You know very well that you have done me infinite injustice and have ruined my and my families happiness a.ncl fortune, and yet when I am ready and willing to forbear and to forgive at your own request in presence of our mutual friend, you are still, after agreeing to it, disposed further to persecute me,-Is this just 1 is it generous 1 is it noble Do you suppose that you can keep me in thnt way out of Tejns, upon which country I hnve ns much right and claim as you or any other man has or can have You are mistaken. I never shall give up my claim on Tejas, and not even the assasins dagger will intimidate me to return and live there, in any vocation or under any circumstances. To injure Tejas and to slander the Caracker of the inhabitants I not need to go to Mejico it is the last place where I would go to- You ought to know that in Matamoras in 1830 and 31. I had the management of the printing press, which I can get again at any time. should I wish it.- ,vhat better medium than this to injure Tejas and slander its inhabitants. Did I ever say nny thing in that paper injurious to Tejas1 Did I ever defend my own cause \\llen I could do it1 \Vhy1 Because I did not wish to reveal cer- tain things, and persons compromitted. But can I forever forbear
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