THE AUSTIN PAPERS
formado imputandosele proyectos de formar de Tejas un Estado de la Federacion separado de coahuila. Mejico diciembre 30 de 834. J. B. GUERRA [Rubric]
AUSTIN TO SAMUEL M. WILLIAMS
Mexico Deer 31 1834 My friend I can at last inform you that I am at liberty. I was discharged from prison on the 25 th (Christmas day) by giving bail not to leave the federal district. I consider this almost equal to a full acquital, for a verry minute investigation_of my case was made before bail was allowed. It will probably take a month to conclude my business so that I can start home, tho my friends think it will be finished much sooner. I hope to see you in Monclova when the Legislature meets. My health is tolerably good and improving very fast. Congress ought to meet tomorrow, but there was not a majority of the Senate up to last night-the others are expected to day. All I can say about political affairs, is that I have been too long out of the world to know much about them, and those who have had better op- portunities seem to know as little-en ~n, parece que nadie entiende las cosas, las personas, ni aun a si mismo.. Great political difficulties are feared by many, while others seem to rely on a peace of exhau$tion-the want of means to revolutionise- Texas, as a matter of course, will remain tranquil-a dead calm as to politics, and activity as to farming and planting, will insure the prosperity of that country. There are a number of cotton factories building here and at Puebla. They appear to rely very much on Texas for a regular supply of cotton. I think that this market will be tolerably steady for a few years, at fifteen, to twenty cents delivered at Vera Cruz-tho this calculation is below what others make. l see that the Govt. have done one thing which I urged last year, (as was then said) with intemperate energy, that is the establishment of a weekly mail to the Sabine river. • All I will say at present as to Texas is that during my stay here I shall not loose sight of the interests of that country, nor permit past sufferings to discourage me. At present I see no material good that can result from Stiring the State question by the people of Texas, and for this reason I have in my former letters recommended silence, or at least a calm on that question at home. Enough has been done to attract the attention of the principal men-to induce inve~tigation. In my case the memorials of the convention, that of Bexar of 19 Deer. 1832 and many other papers on the subject have been carefully examined-the subject is now understood, which
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