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tate in saying that [I can] Bring all the Party, (and There is near 30 men) to Terms o:f Peace Provided It is by your Request and that of the officers of the army I should be glad you and your Brother could come and spend a few Days with us. I could give you Every Information on the subject and I Do assure will Do Every thing in my Power to Establish Peace Be assured I new you a~: an old and particuler friend I wish you helth and Hapiness B. J. THO)IPSON Col S F Austin [Addressed:] Col Stephen F. Austin Nacogdoches Texes
Dn. JonN SrnLEY To AusTIN
Natchitoches FebT, 18-1827
Dn. Sm: I have just Recd by Mr Dubois y:,ur favour of the 9 th Inst: the re- ceipt o:f which gave me great pleasure as Mr Dubois Returns in an hour I have time only to Acknowledge the Receipt of your letter, to Bundle up in a hurry a few news papers for you. Mr Dubois tells • me Mr Ranaz will leave here in two days by him you shall hear from me again. I am now in tolerable health though for eight months past I have been sick half the time. I am happy to hear o:f the Restora- tion of tranquility at Nacogdoches I with pleasure heard of the unanimity of the People of your colony to support Gov' there never was a more silly, wild, Quicksotic scheme than that o:f Nacog- doches, and all sober honest thinking people here view it in the same light-I wish it was in my Power to communicate to you the stipula- tions of a Treaty now before.the senate o:f the U. S. Relative to the Boundaries between us and Mexico. such a treaty has been signed by the :Ministers of the two governments, but wha.t will be the future Boundary is not made public.-I wish we may Embrace your Colony.- you will find in the vYashington Paper of the 15th Ult: some very important European News, all Europe may be embroiled in war. God protect the United States from that calamity, i:f we should be drawn into it, it will be about ~he Island of Cuba. we cannot suffer England to hold it, they have already shut their colonial Ports arrainst our vessels, they will do the same in the Ports o:f Cubn should they occupy it. You mention Trinity the Aishe Bayou and perhaps Sabine; is it not possible for you to come as far as this place when you are so near us i I am sorry to hear o:f the Death o:f George Smyth. an event long expected. indeed he lived longer than I thought he could when I Jast saw him. .i have no time to Enlarge
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