THE AUSTIN PAPERS 955 Are linble to, as during the last eighteen months. When you were here we permitted our imagination to ramble into futurity with untiring, and more than full grown wings. 'l'he result has been what cn]m and calculating judgment would have foreseen-an un- natural flight, and consequent disappointment. vVe11, so be it. I had rather at least be capable of being moved by bright visions, never realized, than to pass through the world without being touched by the recollection of the past, the events of the.present, or the antici- pations of the future. The calamity which Henry has suffered by the loss of his wife, and by sickness is truly distressing. I am convinced from numerous examples that persons raised in cities ought never to remove to a new and thinly settled country. It is a total change of element, and a corresponding change of habits, ideas, and customs must take place, or disappointment and discontent will surely follow. The wild gnrb of nature mny delight and enchant at first, because it is new; the foliage the vines and the forest are pleasing images to those who have always looked upon brick wa1ls and paved streets, but it is the pleasure of novelty and soon vanishes. Henry's health, and that of his family have very much improved, and also his spirits. I think, after this summer we shall get along much better. Our political affairs have been somewhat agitated during the past year. But their course though often much too wild and rapid, and too impulsive, has been tending towards the prosperity, and per- manent tranquility of the eountry. Every thing has now settled down on one fixed basis. Texas needs a State Governm-ent and -is deter- mined to have one. ,ve have lately had a Convention and asked of the general Congress admission into the Mexican Confederacy as a State separate from Coahuila. This request is accompanied by a Constitution as an evidence that we wish for nothing contrary to the National Constitution. I was appointed by the Convention to take on our application for admission as n state; and depnrt tomorrow morning on this responsible and important mission. I go by lnnd, and expect to be in the City of }.fexico in about a.month. I have great confidence of success in procuring the approbation of Congress to the measure. It was originally united to Coahuila pro- visionally and the law that joined them says, "So soon as TexaJ i.s in a si,tuation to figure as a State slie slwll inform, Ormgress tl1ereof f<>r its resolut-ion." So that we are acting by authority: and in virtue of the express mandate of the law, for we only inform Congress that we are in a situation contemplated by said law, as it requires us to do, and ask for admission as such. Should this application he refused it will be the greatest error ever committed by the :Mexican Government. Texas is now in the budding, and impulsive vigor of youth, and a wise direct.ion of its
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