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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
We shall get some money here I think- I shall go immediately to the Western country 5. F. AUSTIN A true copy from the Original Attest. A. C. Ainsworth.
WILLIAM BRYAN TO ANDREW MITCHELL
Received New Orleans April 27 th 1836 from Andrew Mitchell one Small Brass Cannon in Store to be delivered to Col J WE Wallace or his order if called for-or delivered on Present- ment of this Receipt wx BRYAN pr S GD Swan
AUSTIN TO [DAVID G. BURNET?]
New York April 3. 1836-
SIR, The commissioners appointed by the Provisional Govt of Texas in No- vember and December last have discharged the duties assigned to them as fully as their powers and the peculiar circumstances in which they have been placed would permit It is with regret we are compelled to say that the state of things at home, has embarrassed the labors of the Govt· agents in this country- The undersigned, have not receaved orie word from the Govt since the meeting of the convention in March, and the public have been informed through the newspapers that we have been superceded that we have no powers as agents etc. You will at once perceive the bad effect which such things have on the public mind, for, taken in cC1mmon with many exag- gratecl accounts of internal dessentions etc., they have had a tendency to weaken public confidence and to paralise our efforts- In our communications from New Orleans and Nashville and Louisville and Washington City, we informed the Govt. of our proceedings, and that it was all important for some one to lie furnished officially with the declara- tion ,,f independence and with full ,nstructions- For the want of these documents we could do no more in Washington than to prepare opinions to su.stain the declaration of independence made by Texas- We feel every confidence that [as] soon as a diplomatic agent, properly authorized ap- pears at W. [Washington] all will be done, that the nature of the subject will permit. A loan is in progress in this city, but we are convinced no loan will suc- ceed to a large amount, except on the basis of a positive sale of land at a
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