PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 179 section of the Country to expect it-In Houston & all the lower part of the Country, there is no danger.- Excuse the Liberty I have taken in writing so freely on subjects, about which, I may be said at this time to have no interests-but I feel that I have a deep interests in .all that materially affects Texas- I have determined to make it my home for weal or wo, & of course, must feel deeply upon all subjects which may have a tendency either to accellerate or retard her onward march to prosperity
With sincere regard
Your friend &c
James Webb. [rubric]
[Addressed] Genl. Mirabeau B Lamar Vire Presidrnt Texas
[Endorsed] James Webb
Valasco July 1st 1838
No. 758
1838 July 2, J. H. SMITH 'l'O M. B. LAMAR
· Columbus l\Iiss. July 2d. 1838-
Dear Genl. A concatenation of distressing circumstances have prevented my writing you sooner- On my arrival at Mobile I found Mrs. Smith in such delicate health, that I left without delay for home, for the purpose of taking my family, as soon as circumstances would permit to Blount S'prings Al.--- we had a long & tedio,us passage of Two weeks up the river, but I was reconciled to its tediousness inasmuch as Mrs. Smiths health appeared to improve very mucJ1 by the voyage-I had not been home long enough to look around me & prepare to accompany my family to a retreat for health, before, the Blood of a M11rder'd Brothe,r called aloud upon me to avenge the hellish Deed, or have the dastardly assassin brought to retributive Justice, and I have but Just returned from safely, I hope, securing him in Jail.-The particulars of this Tragedy are too painful to recapitulate, therefore I refer you to our friend Jno. L. Evans Esqr. to whome I have given a detailed account of them-all that I have to say is that the lllurderer is either the hang mans or mine, he never can belong to himself again- I had hoped that you would have written me 'ere this & informed me how your friends Sam. Houston & Co were coming on-I learn from the papers that they have at last induced Grayson to run-and although .I was prepared to hear he was a Candidate from what I told you, I had hoped better things of him-but if they were deter- mined that you should have opposition, I am glad that he is the man, for I do not think that you will feel him in the contest, nevertheless I did wish, for the Country, that yon oould have been unopposed-It would have increased confidence abroad, promoted harmony at home, &sunk into insignificance the plotting Junta, around you-Our papers. in fact all the papers of this Country speak of your Election as a matter of course-
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