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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
Holleys book with my view of the effect of the revolution in Texas upon British interests, they are both old correspondents- Mr Beal and Mr Ringold come out with me whether in the Independence or Fannin undecided- you can subscribe 5,000 Ds for me to the new loan as stated in the Tele- gra [p J h of 13th Sept if you think proper There is a frightfull collaps in the circulating medium, the Western Banks will in all probability be compelled to stop before christmas and there are fears for the Banks of this City None of them discount a dollar but for the debtors of the Bank, Not even exchange unless the money is to be paid to the Bank. save in N York, best security 3 or 4 prCt pr Month here and there- Respectfully H AUSTIN [Addressed:] To Genl. S F Austin Columbia Texas
ISRAEL MCGREADY TO J. F. PERRY
[Potosi, Mo., October 12, 1836. See Calendar.]
AUSTIN TO WILLIAMS
Colombia Oct 12. 1836
s. M. WILLIAMS. yours of 29 Augt, recd· at Mr Perrys on the l•L instant. I was then just able to sit up from an attack of fever and am· now barely able to crawl about a little- I read your letter with such feelings as a drowning man would seize a plank- Sam Williams you were wound around and rooted in my affections more than any man ever was or ever can be again- I wished and hoped to see or hear something that would convince me I was wrong or had too seriously viewed your acts etc since I left in·1833. you were to have closed the land business pending of the old colonies and at- tended to the last one-nothing was done or next to nothing, and I still have all that cursed trouble on my hands besides the censure and Gabble of discontent, which is of little consequence it is true but is not very pleas- ant- But all this is nothing, those cursed Monclova speculations and Contracts by which you have involved yourself and friends and country in evils which will last for years, and which you certainly never even drempt of and know nothing-of now- W. H. Jack was the man who gave me the first account of that damn.d transaction that I understood. That an attempt was made by you to get up an excitement in the Colony and to draw men from here unde~ the pretext of defending the Governor, when in reality they were to be used as a part of the pay you and others were to be given on one of those contracts- I was led and bound to belie\'e.by Jack's statement;
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