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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
.used against me by any persons who belong to Texas, and I acquit all ' persons of such a suspicion I say this because in my letter to my brother in [law] of 26 8 August I expressed a doubt on the subject I regret that I entertained any such doubt I was induced to believe amongst other things that the minister of relations Lombardo was personally hostile·_lo me, and that Col. Almonle had made a very unfavourable report about me and Texas- all this I now find to he quite incorrect Almonte's report was favourable, and the minister is not my enemy Under all these false impressions I wrote on the 6 of this month by Capt. O.ffutt on the subject of representing All those letters were written under erroneous impressions made by false information, and I wish Mr. P. [Perry] and W. [Williams] to destroy all my leLters of 6 October and not to show them t~ any one whatever How much difficulty have I been involved in by the excitements in Texas You know how much I have been opposed to most of the events of the last two years It will be a lesson to me for the future, and I hope that hereafter the people of that country will not abuse or suspect me or any one else, who advises, Fidelity to Mexico, and opposition to violent men and measures-which has always been and now is my motto, and I hope will in future be the motto of all Texas I am pleased with the representation from Brazoria or Colombia signed by Waller and Wharton. 4 I shall return to Texas, as a farmer determined to have nothing more to do with the public matters of this, or any country for I wish for harmony This is too important a matter for individual and public happiness and prosperity Lo be suspended or jeopardized by stickling etiquette, and under this view I am the first to say that no obstacles to personal harmony with all men will be raised by me on account of the past political events, altho I am the only one who has suffered by them The Wharlons have heretofore taken a hostile attitude, or at least an un- friendly one towards me They never had any cause, as I think, to do so. However be it that W. H. W. [Wharton] is a friend or foe, the representa- tion above mentioned is calculated to benefit me and was evidently intended to do so and I therefore thank him so far as he had any agency in it, and authorize you to tell him so-and also that I look on that measure as a step on his part towards personal harmony, if he intended it as such, I meet it with corresponding feeling, and if we do not shake hands as friends in future it will be his fault not mine John [Wharton] is of course in- cluded in these remarks. 'See Austin to Perry, August 25. , See William H. Wharton's "Card," November 9, 1834. 'July 31, 1834, Austin Papers. Omitted from this publication.
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