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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
and send back a good report, will immediately follow us into Texas;- 2 I have been the cause of a number of Families emigrating to Texas, who have resided there for some lime,- 3.-Also of sending a number of hardy Volunteers (15 or 20 at least) to aid her in the great and glor:ous struggle for Independence. 4. I wish to settle in your fine Country, on account of the health of my Family-to make myself useful as a Mis• sionary-and intend, that the Families I take with me shall constitute my .first Congregation. The only difficulty, of morm:nt, with which we now !rnve to contend, is, our long and expensive delay. and especially in a cli- mate where Neither our healths nor lives are safe, should we be obliged to remain many weeks beyond the present time:-Moreover, I have only about one fourth the means necessary to transport these families to Texas; and, having no certainty and obtaining remittances from N. York, sooner than abt 7 or 8 Weeks hence; I am therefore obliged to remain liere until those remittances arrive--or until I can, myself succeed in raising the requisite means lo take my People on.- This has oeen a sad delay for Us all.- I trust we shall be enabled to go on soon, and be permitted to Locate, where at least we shall be enabled to preserve both our Healths and our Lives;-My present plan--As soon as I can get ready-to-take our people on to the Nacliez Bluffs, and let them remain there for a time, ·upon the Lands of A. C. Allen and E. A. Baldwin Esqrs, and occupy a number of Buildings belonging to them there.-Should -(finally) the interest which I have so long and so warmly taken in the welfare of Texas be so consid- ered by yourself and the Government, as to expedite our Location, I shall be very i;lad, and shall have renewed cause lo exlt:nd my labo~ and exer- tions in so good a cause.- Permit me again to solicit your kind aid and influence in our behalf:-I am, Dr. Sir, with great Respect
R. SALMON.
To Genl S. F. Austin
J. DELAUP TO AUSTIN
[New Orleans, June 16, 1836. See Calendar.]
]. W. COLLINS TO AUSTIN
GENL. s. F. AUSTIN
Bot. of G. W. Collins
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