THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 873 ·I shall not make any communication on this all import Subject to Mrs Hawkins or ~fr Sanders .until I am better informed myself, but be assured I shall feel great anxiety until I know more on the subject. I have no doubt but your late Emperor Iterbide is by this time relnnded at Vera Cruse-he sailed from London in May with the declared intention of his again assuming IGngly Authority in Mexico, and he further states that his voyage is undertaken at the Instance of a large number of the first characters of the Province-it is to be hoped however that his views will not be reallized but that on his landing he may be caught and hung-there is little doubt but Saint .Anna is no better than Iterbide and while such Arch Traitors hold offices of trust and honour in the country there can be no guarantee for the lives or property of the Citizens-In short I fear there is not yet sufficient learning and virtue in the people of that country to maite a staple form of Government and then suppcrt it. They may make and adopt constitutions every year and still find persons to violate them, and when the penalty is called for, the criminal concen- trates his party and :puts down the whole System-This has been the case ~or fifteen years, and still there is no fixed and solid founda- tion for them to sustain. -and I fear wont be until the present genera- tion passes away and another organized on different principals raises up, who from more Experience will be able to frame a constitution suitable to the manners and customs of the people it is intended for- NATH: • Cox I intended to· send you the letter of Iterbide which he addre.c;ses to a friend in London before sailing, but cant lay my hand on it at present- N. C. Col. STEPHEN 14'. AusTIN Province of Texas.
ERASMO SEGUIN TO AUSTIN
Mexico 11 de Agosto 1824 AMico MIO. Cori· su carta de V del 20 de Junio anterior del presente afio, f~cha en lo~ Brazos, 'he recivido dos cartas, una para Ramos Arispe otra·p~ra'Sr· vVavel, y las dos copias, de las solicitudes de nuestros compafieros los de esa Colonia. Las cartas he entregado a S\l duefio y los originales de los Memoriales no hnn llegaclo al Con- greso, ni al Supremo Gov 00 por cuyo conducto debian venir; esta noticia la ten<Yo de Alaman amigo de V. qnien ha vuelto a encargarse b . del 11inisterio de relaciones interiore.5 y exter10res, y he determinado dar lugar a que llegue el corr 0 • venidero, en cuyo·tiempo si la dipu- 25067°-24-voL 2, PT 1--56,
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