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resort to the qualified electors of those counties Hoxey sends his complements and offers the like assurances of your friend R. M. Williamson private you and your friends PS I will be in Houston 10th July
Willie
[Addressed] Gen Mirabeau B. Lama,r City of Houston• politeness l\fajr Richardson
[Endorsed] · R. l\L \Villiamson
) 10th July 1838- )
. Political. tell J W More I will be in Hous- ton before the 10th compl &c Judge Williamson
No. 756
1838 July 1, S. A. ROBERTS, [BETWEEN GALVESTON AND ) VELASCO], TO l\1. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTOK] ! On board Cuba 1st July '38 9~ar General / I saw the last Civilian yesterday and was both shocked and dis- ,, gusted at the tone a,nd substance of the Editorials-I have ever since felt not a little uneasy at the effect this might produce upon you-The object which they (the Editors) have in view however is so plain and palpable that you cannot fail to discover it the moment you have read the paper-they will labor hard and hit close too sometimes in order that they may provoke you into a, personal or newspaper controversy, and to fall into the snare they have spread for you would be deeply mortifying to all your true and best friends- I am induced to make these remarks from the knowledge I have of your constitutional irritability when wantonly and publicly at- ta,cked-----,to be truly great you ought not, cannot notice them your friends are up in arms at Galveston and will carry fire & sword into the very camp of the enemy-Let them now be won-How I wish I could have been in Houston on the day the paper was published, to have told Doct Moore what I thought of his pledges-He has forfeited them-He told me that the first article of a personal char- acter they a,ttempted to introduce into the Civilian would be the signal to cease to print it G--d d--n him-He must either be treacherous, or po f sse] srnd of queer notions as to what is a PERSONAL attack Let me beseech you not to notice a,ny thing they may publish, your friends are all over mutch for them in ev-ery way and will see justice done I sincerely hope that yon will not read ANY THING they may publish for the future, merely lay the paper aside and after the canvass is over you can then look over every thing calmly & dispassionately- I know not whether you can make out what I have written-The
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