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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
over your interests and protect your rights by just and wise laws which will enable you to enjoy in peace the fruits of your labors-If the government of the nation is not yet fully and finally organized, the causes which have produced the delay are well known; but in the midst of these delays and convulsions they have given you a chief to govern you untill you have within yourselves the necessary numbers and elements for the formation of your municipal bodies-they have given you a beneficial and liberal Colonization law,-they have gi,;en you a member in the most Excellent Deputation of this province (the Baron de Bastrop) and you will be entitled to an equal representa- tion with other citizens in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments of the State, according to the tenor of the Constitu- tional Act which you are now called on to Swear to. It is therefore necessary that you should listen with attention and confidence to your immediate Chief (Col. Austin) whose authority is from the Supreme powers of the nation to which you now voluntarily ·belong, and that you should disregard and dispise all those idle slanders and vague stories which are put in circulation by the enemies of good order for the sole purpose of creating confusion and discontent. I trust that my words will have the impression on your minds that I desire, and that convinced of their truth you will repose in con- fidence and peace under the authorities that govern you, for by so doing you may attain that degree of prosperity you wish .for and which is ardently hoped for by your fellow citizen JOSE ANTONIO SAUCEDO
NATHANIEL Cox TO AusTIN
New Orleans 20 :March 1824.
DEAR Sm, Mr ,,7hite has just called and delivered me your letter of the 1 of last month-he departs again in 24 hours, and only leaves me time to nclmowledge the favor of its receipt- I wrote you some time ago more fully than I can possibly do now, on the subject of our friend Hawkins' family-they are in a most deplorable situation, and must for the present be supported by their friends- My former letter will inform you that Mrs. Hawkins administered on her husband's est and left my [me] charged with the settlement of itr--but such is the Embarrassment that there will not be a sufficiency to pay law charges etc-and such are the nature of the other debts that it would be only to sacrifice the property in Texas was it to go into the hands of the Creditors, and your plan of keeping the
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