THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1541 Think well on these hasty remarks let reason and prudence guide you-put away all passion and submit at once to the govern- ment, or if you cannot or will not do that, ]eave the country and sep- arate yourself from all faction-s and disorganizing men. • s F AUSTIN Write me as soon as possible and write frankly what you intend to do and what is the State of things in that country for we have many rumors here---and rumors that I hope are false, altho they come very direct from travellers who are daily passing-but I am unwilling to believe that you have all run mad.
JOHN CAMERON TO AUSTIN
.Sta Rosa 25 [December?] 1826
DEAR Sm My object [in visiting yo]ur Section of the Country in the spring of • * * was to procure n. league of land calculated for Agricultural purposes. at that time it appeared difficult to effect my purpose; although there was much unoccupied land; still a tract could not be procured unless at remote situations from the Coasti Notwithstanding at the same time I was impressed with the belief that near the sea board there were many unoccupied tracts; (i. e.) leagues that were not designated as the property of any particular individual, which I presume through virtue of the Law of Coloniza- tion I might have occupied and the possession stand good, but had I resorted to such measures as the Law explicitly specifies on this subject, it would undoubtedly have been the cause of considerable commotion, among the settlers, therefore on no consideration would [I have been 1] instrumental in dis[turbi:ng the peace of the cou]ntry indeed from what I could [learn a good den.HJ of dissatisfaction even then existed- As the number of families to be introduced [into] your Colony have been extended, together with [the] time granted for their being established there-I again feel disposed to renew my solicitations for a league of land. I think you can still furnish n good tract well c-alculated for the purposes of Agriculture low down on the Brazos or Colorado, or somewhere in that neighbourhood, under such con- sideration, I appeal to your generosity, and flutter myself with the hope of your compliance to my request, when you designnte n. tract forward my titles and the amount sbnll be remitted to you or de- posited in the hands of any person you mny appoint to receive it JN° CAJ\IERON [Rubric] perhaps some of the settlers ha.ve forfeited [the gra]nt they ob- tained under the original Grant [and these trJacts ma.y stand un-
Powered by FlippingBook