THE AUSTIN PAP£RS. 1707 l\lr Jnmes Kerr was good enough ~o give me a few Lines to you which you ha.ve in the Bundle of Letters. Should there be any Persons of trust going by the way of Natchi- toches to the United States - be Pleased to forward this Packet of letters by them to be :Mailed at that Place.
J onN GrnsoN [Rubric]
[Addressed:] Jas. B .. A u s t i n . .
,v1LLIAM s. PAimo1-r To Ausr1N
:Mexico Nov. 1th 1827
STEPHF.N F AusTJN Esqr l\fy DEAR Sm It is with heartfelt pleasure I now aclmowledge •receipt. of your much esteemed favour·of the 22 nd ulto - As it is presumable Mr Almy ma.y have given yon some of the most remark- nble occurrences ,with me of late. I shall proceed without ceremony to your many preguntas Much exciteme.nt has and still exists among more properly speaking the Patriots and anti republicans than between the masonic brethren for what, we call Yorkino is 8trictly speaking whig, with us and escoseses Tory - Some name of distinction was necessary and as the parties became bett~r known about the time we established the York writ - and as every tme american flocked to our standard we were in a short time able to outweigh the anti-republicans or Scotch party and they began im- mediately to ma.ke a bug bar of yorkism and to cha.rge Mr Poinsett with the crime of introducing a system or machine by which he in- tended to carry on nll his intrigues a thausand ugly things have been said and his a.nswer to the congress of Veracmz which I now hand you will give yon some Idia of what they wished to make him appear before the pnb]ic So much for the Scotch and yorkism If you have a wish to forward a petition to the grand lodge, I will see that you have your charter, to Uris effect you will form a lodge in your settlement a.ncl extend a petition to the grand lodge of Mexico signed by a11 the members and provisional officers; The charter will cost you perhaps 50$ though I recollect of having paicl 30$ for the charter of a lodge in Saltillo Please see J esu.s M• Ybarra of that place from whom you can get all necessary information and to whom please present my best respects - Fear not but the Yor- kinos will gain the dn.y. the poor Scotch are making their Inst struggle I have no doubt but the true object of masonry has been in some measure perverted with us; but at t.he time when the sal- vation of the country perhaps - depende<l, upon such a measure
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