THE AUSTIN PAPERS 979 or pretext it gives the enemies of Santa Anna to abuse him, than from a belief that there was no cause for complaint. You could not have a correct idea of how matters stood, unless you were informed of all these reports and sayings, and for this reason I have mentioned them. I think it best to harmonize with the State commissioners so far as it can be done, without yielding the principle of a State Go11- ernment. I am told that Coahuila would consent to the separation, if the money now clue for land already granted was secured to Coahuila, they say that Texas has paid nothing as yet, to defray the expenses of the State etc. For my part, so far as I am interested as a citizen of Texas, I am willing to yield this point and to pay to Coahuila all that is or may be due for all land where titles are actually issued. This would not include the floating eleven league tracts not located, nor lands in colonizing contracts not settled, but would only embrace all where the possession was actually given and the title issued before the final separation. That money is a mere trifle compared to getting a State, and I can assure you it will be very difficult tp get a State without the consent of Coahuila, and very easy to get it with her consent. • I merely make the suggestion to you of harmonizing as much as possible with Coahuila, for if the State Government should apply to the General Government or to the other States for aid to inforce ' • its laws in Texas, the General Government would hardly dare to refuse it in the present critical state of things. The general congress has adjourned and probably will not meet again until January next, so that my trip to Mexico was rendered measurably useless, and having been very much debilitated by a dysentery, or Cholarina, that is prevailing here, I had concluded at one time to postpone my trip for the present and I forwnrded t~e memorial to the President throuO'h the commandant General by mail, b so as to remove the bad impressions that existed in :Mexico. I have this day heard of a vessel that is unexpectedly to be sent to Vera Cruz, the schooner Comet, and I shall embark on board of her and take the stage from Vera Cruz to Mexico. I am illy calculated at this time to stand the trip by land, and I believe thnt it would lay me up in this hot, dry country perhaps for the whole summer. Nothing definite can be done about the State question, until Con- gress meets in January, unless there should be a called sessio?, ~nd they are always convened for special objects, nnd by the constitution nothing can be done in them but the special objects for which they nre convened. So that all I can do is to talk with the President and Ministers and correct lies and false reports etc., and po.ve the way. I think I shall return in August, but if it appears to be necessary for me to remain until January, I shall do so.
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