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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
ROBERT ANDREWS,TO AUSTIN
. .Parras May 15 th /2~ Nothing could have given me m\>re satisfaction than an interview· with you, but I recollect the story of Tele11wchus who traveled thro all grades of Hell and did not meet his father and at last they met on earth, therefore as we did not meet in this infernal region I most seriously hope we •will meet on earth. I suppose we may be allowed to compare ourselves to the Heathen Gods in this counti·y, where the people are more supersticious than they were when these imaginary Deities existed. • • I nm really glad to hear that your wishes.are compleatly fulfilled in the business on which so much depends, but I do not recollect the act of the Emp 1 Govt on 'the subject, therefore do not know of what magnitude your personal prospects may be, of this you will be good enough to give me a scetch in your next, and whether the mode of naturalisation will be as before-you say nothing of the survey- ing of which I am anxious to hear in as much as I have made appli- cation to the Govt for the appointment of surveyoi.· in Texas, sup- posing that I might dislodge the Baron De Bastrop at this change of Govt, by several good reasons some of which are the following, that he is too old to give personal attention, that [he] probably knows nothing of the new mode of calculntion by Lat. and depart which is the only mode to do it corr~ctly-I do not know, perhaps my ineligibility alone may be sufficient to prevent me from obtaining it, you who was at the fountain head can give me some information on the subject, and if you think it possible,-write to some of your acquaintances in congress, at least let me know •what you think on the subject-if I should obtain that office, I will land in Texas in Jn.ny. with 20 odd labouring hands, 50 mules and horses, stores and tools appropriate to open a farm and in all probability shall be accompanied by the heads of several families who will go on in order to settle, I have disclosed the plan of planting a Town on the collorado or Brazos to the people here and they seem to be much stimulated but as yet I cannot say what I can do. • I believe I can exercise about 2000 dollars on credit in that way, but the people here are so da.-d afraid of Indians that if they move in that direc- tion they must have an American between them and the Comanches- Therefore if a co1lony of these sodomites ~o on I shall have to be their Joshua-I have written .to your Brother and Alley to advise me of the present cir~umstnnces and prospects in that quarter, and shall depend much on your opinion, which you will remit .me from Bexar or Colorado, after seeing how things are, I shall leave·this place in a week or ten days for Durango, to which place I wish
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