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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
I am weary of a troubled life I wish for a calm and quiet one on a farm along side of my sister and her Aock of little ones The society of new countries is thin and bad at best-why should it be made worse by dissentions that separate families who might enjoy each others society as friends and neighbors and thus cast a rose or two upon the thorny path of human life? I am weary of such things-if I know myself I am made for social intercourse and enjoyment of friends and neighbors. Show this to P. and W. l,Perry and Williams] without any delay that they may know my wishes as Lo my letters of 6 October and distroy them. Remember me to Mrs. McKinney and to Col Groce and all his children and to my friends in genl. S. F. AUSTIN [Rubric] 7 oclock at night just as I had sealed this and was about sending it to the post office I rec.d the oficio of the chief of that department informing me of my elec• lion as a member of the state legislature of Coahuila and Texas. No event of my life has afforded me more gratification, not because I desire office, or to have anything to do with public matters, far from it- I sincerely wish to avoid them-but situated as I now am I should be worse than cold hearted and insencible not to feel the greatest degree of gratitude and thankfulness for this distinguished and unequivocal evidence of the confi- dence and esteem of ·my fellow citizens and fellow laborers, because it is a vindication of what is dearer to me than life or liberty-of my reputation I thank them I hope it may be in my power to thank them by some act, some service more substantial than these words· This hope is all that can diminish my repugnance to entering again into the confused and entangled public matters of our adopted country I believe however by the laws my election is nulo because I have a causa pendiente and I think it quite doubt- ful whether I shall be at liberty before January or February My case is before the judiciary, and the executive cannot interfere with it I have no doubt the president Santana is friendly to me and to Texas I therefore advise you to prepare to go to Monclova so as to be there by the first of JanY· or before. 5 I rec.d Williams letter--cannot answer it or the chiefs by this mail which will close in an hour and so will my prison for the night U. debe visitai a mi hermana amenudo, y debe ser mas prudente y mucho menos estremoso en todo-lo digo como amigo. qe le ha dada bastantes preuvas qe lo soy verdaderamte_basta Many strange things have occured during the last year of revolutions all over Mexico which deserve the name of Anarchical phynorniria. The 5 McK.inney had been elected Suplente. "The Robertson colony. See Robertson's Statement, July 2, 1834. For the history of the Robertson Colony, see Barker, The Life of Stephen. F. Austin., Chaptere XI.
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