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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
on the 15 Nov. 1835, and they accordingly elected Edmund Andrews and L C Manson Esqr. as Judges and John Sharp and James P. Caldwell as Secretaries of sd. Meeting. When the votes being counted stood thus fifty Seven (say 57 votes) against any· representation at said Congress, and Sixteen (say 16 votes) in favor of said representation as will be seen by reference to the above list of votes
EDMUND ANDREWS L. C. MANSON
Judges
JOHN SHARP ]AS. P. CALDWELL
Secretaries
WILLIAM H. WHARTON TO THE Pueuc 1
A CARD
A printed letter dated PRISON of the Ocordado, city of Mexico, August 25 th 1834, has this moment met my eye. Among other false and ridiculous things it contains many grave and damning charges preferred against myself. When I first saw this letter; I was in common charity disposed to believe some enemy of Austin's had forged it, for the purpose of holding him up to public derision and scorn, by exhibiting in ludicros contrast his former and present opinions or rather PROFESSIONS; for I could not imagine that any man of common sense would append his name to such a bloated mass of disgusting self conceit-of arrogant dictation, and of inconsistent stupidity. My opinion of the forgery was abandoned, however, when I learned this FAMOUS document issued from the press under the auspices of his devoted personal friends and of the relation to whom it was addressed. I had hoped that my political career and with it my political dissentions had terminated. At the close of the last convention I deliberately resolved to withdraw from all public employment whatever, and for the future, to seek peace and retirement in the bosom of my own family far-far, and forever removed from the bustle and contention-the hopes and the honors of political life. This resolution has been, up to this period, strictly ad- hered to; for since that time I have been more secluded from the public eye, than the writer from the PRISON of the Ocordado; I have confined myself exclusively to the pursuits of agriculture, and have not been ten miles from home in the colony of Austin. This resolution I fondly wished still to adhere to, and would never· have troubled the public with anything
1 From a proof sheet copy. See Austin to Perry, August 25, 1834.
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