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which you live, and you will confer a particular favour on me by any attentions in your power to afford-I refer you to him for every particular relative to the political events which have transpired here, and present state of the government etc., etc. On the 21 instant the Emperor and Empress were crowned with all the pomp and splendor usual on such occations, and the Government is I think now estab- lished on a much more solid bas1s than it heretofore has been, the legislative powers are all vested in the congress, and the Emperor has sworn to support the Constitution which that body may form, so that there is every reason to believe that the Govnt. will be as free and liberal as any man could wish. As citizens of this, our adopted nation, it is our duty to be obedient to the laws and to unite in sup- port of the Government, I therefore hope that the Citizens of the_ Colorado and Brazos will present an example of good order worthy of being followed- ! fear some of the Settlers may have become a· little discouraged at my long absence, and at the uncertainty in which they have re- mained, but I assure you that I have been labouring hard the whole time for your Good, on my arrival here I found the Government very much unsettled, Shortly after the Emperor Agustin, was pro- claimed, an<l Congress have been so continually occupied with that, and other important national concerns, that individual applications could not be attended to~ I now have a prospect of finishing every thing in a short time, and hope to be with you once more shortly, 1 wish you to asi:;nre the Settlers that all things will be arranged to their full satisfaction, and that there is no cause for uneasiness at my delay The Government are disposed to treat all good Citizens with the greatest liberality-all bad one must expect the severest rigor, I have been very uneasy at a report that the Indians have been troublesome, I hope however that it is unfounded, this fall we must try and force them to a peace, the Government will send on a body of troops with whose aid I think the Comanches maj 1 be humbled, The Constitution of this Nation is not yet formed, and there is no pros- pect that it will be finished short of five or six months, it is a work of great magnitude and requires the most mature deliberation, I have no doubt that it will secure all the personal rights and liber- ties of the people as effectually as we could wish· - I informed the Captain Gen1. that I had appointed Mr. J. H. Bell to act as Sindex in the Settlement which he approved-I hope there has been no necessity for a civil officer and that every man has b~en too much occupied with his farm to think of anything else The whole success of the Settlement depends on the harmony and mornl- ity, and industry, of the settlers! if you establ~sh your characters ~or these virtues, you have everything to hope which a generous and hL-
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