THE AUSTIN PAPERS
I wish to take a large interest in the bank, as I told you- This we will arrange when you return- Keep in view that that measure cannot succeed well unless many of the farmers etc in Texas are interested- Do not fail to call on Mr. Leaming, and my friends in N. York, and be very prudent as to everything. The vessel goes tomorrow- remember •mu to White S. F. A. I was told confidentially to day that a letter had been written to Texas from here (I know not by whom but guess) stating that I was a blind agent of Santana's etc. The object of certain persons, as you know, is to. try and make tools of the people.of Texas to build up themselves- Texas ought to act on the defensive and not be the tools of either of the political parties of Mexico- She has just as much to expect from one party, as from the other, and no more from one than from the other- She 'must rely upon herself, and to do so, she needs strength- emigration gives us strength and everything.
S. F.A
[Addressed:] Mr. S. M. Williams Mobile Mr.' Hodge
D. C. BARRETT TO CITIZENS OF MINA
August 23 1835
To THE CITIZENS oF MINA When at the call of the Political Chief, by and with the advice of his counsel, then in session, I submitted to undertake a hazardous Mission in behalf of my adopted Country. I did not give a full consent, until I had consulted your "Committee of Safety" and obtained their approbation. 1 ... I-wish now to give you a brief account of the occurrences connected with my public duties since the letters of Mr. Gritten and myself by Messrs. Drown and Turner. , The United States Government [of Mexico] have through their officers at Matamoras and· this place, fully recognized the objects of the Mission, and the public character of your agents. Augt. 25 1835. I have just' heard from Mr. Gritten by e~press, he is at Goliad, where he expected to have met me, on this day, several late communications 1 Barrett with Gritten had undertaken a mission to General Cos at Matamoras to try to convince him that the Texans were peaceably inclined. They were stopped at San Antonio by Colonel Ugartechea, who declared that Cos would not' listen to them until the colonists surrendered the leaders of the war party. During Barrett's absence from Bastrop on this mission the alcalde granted an attachment against some of his property to satisfy 11 judgment, of $100. Several pages of protest by Barrett are omitted.
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