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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
AUSTIN TO Mas. M. A. HoLLEY 1
Nashville, Feb. 16, 1836.
DEAR COUSIN- I have been detained by the -ice but expect to leave for Louisville tomor- row. I have been treated with the greatest kindness and hospitality in this city; and was never more grateful or pleased with any place in my life. The greatest enthusiasm pervades all ranks and sexes here in favor of the cause of Texas. The Ladies of Nashville have offered to furnish the means of forming and transporting a company of Volunteers to Texas. It is now raising and will soon be ready. This generous and disinterested act of patriotism is worthy of imitation, and will fill a bright page in the brilliant record of female magnanimity, and devotion to the cause of liberty, of philanthropy and religion. Such is the cause of Texas. We are contend- ing for the right of self-government, and of worshipping God according _to the dictates of our consciences. Our object is independence. I hope that the great and patriotic State of Kentucky will join their Sister States of the South in aiding us A fine field is presented for the enterprising This contest once over-and it will soon be over-and Texas will rise and pros- per rapidly. Col. T. D. Owings has offered to raise two regiments in Ken- tucky. March, April, and May next is the time we shall need aid, for by that time Santa Anna will be with his army. S. F. AUSTIN.
AUSTIN, ARCHER, AND WHARTON TO SMITH
[Nashville, February 16, 1836. In Garrison, Dip. Cor. Texas, I, 66.]
AUSTIN TO SMITH
[Nashville, February 18, 1836. In Garrison, Ibid., I, 70.]
THOMAS F. McKINNEY TO AusTIN
New Orlean~. Feby 22 nd • 1836
COL S. F. AUSTIN W ASHINCTON Da. Sm
I have intended answering your letter to me from N. Orleans but have realy been at a loss how to begin finding from circumstances which I will satisfactorily or at least clearly explain to you if ever again we sho~ld IFrom the Northwestern Gazette and Galena Advertiser (Galena, Illinois), April 2, 1836.
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