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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
a certificate of citizenship under that date, I trust that through your in- fluence the right applied for, will be unhesitatingly granted, You well know Gentlemen I have been strictly devoted to the interest of Texas; That through your instigation I declined receiving consignments of Merchandise and consequently, that chance of resource was entirely .cul off, Leaving me for the present ruined in commercial prospects, which I should not value if my credit had not been deeply injured by the unjustifyable proceedings of your Cabinet, At the period the agency of Texas was accepted by me her prospects were so deeply shrouded in doubt that you were refused by several the aid I promptly rendered-You will recollect one person only, was willing to accept the office (and only one) on condition that I ~ould take all the responsibilities, all the trouble, and he the profit, and the title--When I refused the proposal, it was far from my belief that a Cabi- net representing an enterprising and honorable population would sanction the proceedings of a few treacherous, interested persons, to bring disgrace and ruin upon the only person who disinterestedly stood by them through their days of darkness- In a few days I trust to submit to your perusal a correct statement of all the transactions between the Government of Texas and their agents in New Orleans
WM. BRYAN
GEORGE FISHER TO AUSTIN
[New Orleans, July ll, 1836. See Calendar.]
A. DE 0. SANTANGELO TO AUSTIN
[New Orleans, July 12, 1836. See Calendar.]
W. P. HILL TO AUSTIN
Hartford, TConn.] 15 th July, 1836
GEN. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN, SIR,
On or about the 20th ultimo, I deposited at the Texian Agency in New Orleans, a letter directed to your address, to be forwarded to you, with other despatches on board the "Union," then at anchor in the Mississippi River. If you have received that letter, you are already informed !hat I was instructed by a company of Merchants in N. York, to proceed to Texas, to negotiate with the Texian Cabinet, a loan of half a million dollars and that specific instructions would be sent to me at N. Orleans, to govern my movements in the negotiation. The day after writing you the said letter, I received from N. York, not the "specific instruction" I expected, but a
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