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be alt€red I must leave my Family and then Contend Myself in per- son for the Laws a.nd Authority untill I Die God and Liberty I remain your Excellencies most obt very Humble Servant (Signed) • J AME.S GAINES. Satillo Oct. the 7. 1826 DEAnSm I send you a Copy of a Letter wrote by Mr. James Gaines to this Government stating what you will see in said letter You have that poisinous serpent who underhanded is writing against you all you ought to take care of Him for if He dont injure you it is not for the want of trying you will see by His letter that I drew off word for word. I wish you to let all the Ayish Bayou know it and see what He and his Brother in Law wishes to do if it was in their power Norris hns written to the same effect this is wrote by a Friend who dont sign his name for good reasons but you will know who he is in a short time. Ponga mi Rubrica no mas 1 To Mr. Joseph Dust [DURST] A true copy taken from the original in the secretary's office Sal- ~illo Oct. 6th 1826 JA 8 E. B. AUSTIN [Rubric] P. S. In some places I have corrected the spelling and in others have left it as it is in the original, which is so badly written that it was with much difficulty the meaning could be ascertained.-[A.ustin] 1
SAMUEL N oruus TO A usTIN
Nacogdoches Sept 5 th 1826
Co 1 STEVEN F AuSTIN
DEAR Sm I recd your letter by mail of the 27 of August where in you state to me the news of Saltillo being favourable on Slavery which I have made known in the settlement wherein the people was so much dissatisfied with the news that all thier slaves was to be set free since I have not heard from there how they have taken the news but I dont hesitate to say that I expect as usual I did not send your letter but only a copp;r of the slave news Sir it is a mistake of yours to say that I am the father in law of Gaines I nm only a. Brother in law but if he was my child its self I would not correct him if I did not believe him to be w:rong he has 1 Thie copy does not contain the rubric. There le no clue to the writer. The most likely guess would be Juan Antonio Padilla, secretary to the Goveruor. • See Sprowl to AustlD, Nov. 6, 1826.
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