THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 603 tell you I believe is True Mr ..Whitson appears to be [a] very steady Genteel mun such as I would take for a man of Truth he told me there would not [have] been less than 100 families on next fall had It not been for the conduct of Kinchelow from the Alabama people of property, If government decides favourable to the Emigration to this Country It will be well for you Emediately to advertise In the Different states again us Bad News has sirculated every where almost as Respects the govemment Especially advertise in Missiesippi and Allabama states as Kinchelow has made the people believe as much as he Could that he was Intrested with you and the people who have had some Trial of him and.Dealings are so Disgusted with him believing him to have some Controle over the settlement that they will not have anything to do with it on acct of him I asserted to Mr Whitson that Kinchelow had no Intrest in the Claime only as a settler Under you the same as other settlers from what I had under- stood Except I understood he had u. privilege of settling 20 families It is not my .wish Nor intention to Do the man any harm, but I wisf1 to notify you in such a way that he may Do you No [more] hearm than he has already done which I am afraid he has Done you many thousand dollars Dammagethe man Is a stranger to me I never saw him in my life to my Knowledge but for the good will I have for you und your Brother I feel myself Bound to Let you Know in what way he has Injured you and I hope you will have no Confidence in what he may tell you from Character In the Boons Lick country from whence he Came I hope you-will Not Let him Disceave you, I have heard a great Deal said about him Last fall when I was In that Country I Do not wish you to Expose him only take Ca.re to have No Confidence-- Now sr I wish to tell you something of my business I Came a long way to see you n.nd the Country together I have seen a Tollarable shear of the Country but had Not the happi- ness of seeing you as I am very anxious to Do But fortune seems to forbid, l\,[r .Bruffey and my self Came Down here with a hope of giting into some business until you Might return But our Expecta- tions have failed Now we are under necessity of making homewards ns fast as we Can- Times are hard No provisions to be had or we would wait your re- turn to Know the Determination of [the government]-Mr Bruffey and myself are well pleased with the country with some Exceptions that of the scarcity of Timber and some as to springs upon the whole we both intend Moving to the Country. If we are plensed with the government l\ifuch will Depend on the Report we make and the gov- ernment when we return, when I left home the whole Country almost Talked of Coming we was Detained one Month beyond the Sabbean waiting for grass t:o grow or Else we would have been here before
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