THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 785 whether you can get up Red River, as it will depend on the rise of that River in the fall, tho you must be governed in some measure by circumstances-if Honey should be going down with the Dolphin perhaps you might make an arrangement on good terms with him for your passage. and If I find that I can by any :Means get a Vessel in Orleans I will do so and write to you both at Herculanium and Nachez-Drother must write to l\fr. Thomas .Allsberry in Hopkins- vrne IC. Y. and to Martin Varner in Ohio and see when they will move and how·and then decide on the best plan- \Ve have nH had a good Schooling in the best School in the \Vorld, lhnt of Adversity and I hope have profited by it-Our prospects now are beginning to look up, but we must still remember our past troubles and not forget that wealth is hard to acquire and easily lost-let our motto therefore be economy and plain living. It is my wish that nothing should be worn in the family but homespun, at least for several years it is the cheapest but what is o:f much more importance it will set an example to the rest of the Settlers that will have a Yery good effect-also I wish everything about the house to be plain and pritty much like the rest of my neighbors-we are all poor in this country and therefore all on an equality and so long as this continues we shall all go on well and harmoniously as re- gards good neighborship, and our industry will soon remidy our poverty if we have the proper econemy with it--The situation I am placed in here will cause all the acts of any of my family to be ob-- served and it will require a uniform nffible deportment to all, without J'egarding their appearance or poverty to prevent giving offences, the only distinction that must be shown here is between the good and the bad and that must be very marked and decisive-I make these observations that you may have a better idea of the course that will be necessary to adopt here from the beginning-for you know how easy it is to give offence to a certain class of mankind I have written to Timothy Bryan relative to Sarah and her chil- dren and brother will tell you what must [be] done on that Subject-- I requested Timothy to write to you and to me both and agreed to be responsible for the Money so you must bring them with you- It is my wish that Aunt Austin and family should move with you if possible, all I can say is that if she comes I will provide well for her family in land and Settle her as near you as I can the land Shall cost her nothing, and I will lend her as much corn as She wants for her family the first year and do any thing else in my power to aid her-with George and her Sons She can Soon live well here and have a League of good land to divide amongst her children in fact I ha.ve picked out a league for her anci Shall keep it reserved untill I hear from her, brother can discrihe it to her-it is next to what I call
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