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parts that ware put into that office that Came as soon as I had a right to Expect them- If any-thing should offer that you think would be profitable that I Could take a hold of, with one of my sons If it was necessary to Bring one with me please to Let me know as soon as you Can in the way have above mentioned as I am De- sirious to be in that Country and In giting into business in some such way It would be a means of giting my family all in a way to go-when they once begin to see that some thing was Doing to acl- ·rnntage a hope of gain is the great spring to Every thing almost that we undertake, for my own part I have my own consent to put off, as soon as possible I have six sons and all able to Do some thing on a farm but one Some of them Capable of almost any business If your port of Entry was Established and a ware house Errected If you think we Could fill the place of attending to that and had not promised It to some other person I would be willing to Try that Business a while or any thing Else that I Could make money at If I Could go there my self and git into Business my family would soon after agree to go But there is such numorous Reports unfa- vourable to the Country that It is hard to make people believe the Truth the Merchants in particular •are more opposed to people moving to that Country or any other than Ever I saw people before my life but It is not all they Can say will alter my mind a thing that I know of my own knowledge I should have been with you this last summer But I was Like to Loose my Eye sight for near two months But have Recovered It again about as well as usual- I wish you to write by Mr Hail Consearning the government If times has got quiet at Mexico and like to Remain so- I have seen the Constitution your [brother?] had it I think well of It [if] they will only Live up to it-it is a good one so far as I Can J uclge of It Except that of Religion is an objection to a great Number of people for my own part I Care nothing about it know I Can be as good a Cristian there as I can here It is only a name anyhow I think you had better have the Constitution published in the St- Louis paper and In Kintucky paper If you wish the Country to Emigrate very fast they Do not generally believe that the Con- stitution. Is as good as It is-. Any advantages that Country has that is Not generally known you would do well to have published as Ever good thing is kept Consealed ns much as possible It is very hard for the Truth [to] git as far as here it scearcely Can git on this side Red River before It is Detected and stoped I un- derstand Mr Rob and Mr Jos- Kuyk~ nclale has moved from where I left them on the Colorado and as that is the Case you need not Reser1'e that Land for me any Longer as I wish to be attached to some -strong settlement when I come I also ·wish to be as near the
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