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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 760
1838 July 9, ANSELM BUGG, COOSAWDA, AUTAUGA COUNTY, [GEORGIA], 'f'O 1\HRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON], TEXAS Their personal relations in Georgia; his own admiration for Lamar's public character an inducement to settle in Texas; a request for aid to 1\fr. Hays in selecting land for the writer suitable for a homestead and for a sawmill; Hays 's fitness for the superintendency of construction for the canal authorized by the Congress. A. L. S. 3 p. ''Private.'' No. 761 [1838 c. July 9], P[ETER] W. GRAYSON, [BEAN STATION, TENNESSEE], TO [J. W.] MAYSE, [BEAN-STATION, TENNESSEE] 86 Instructions regarding the disposition of his own effects; pardon desired for causing trouble. Copy. 1 p. No. 762 1838 July 11, T. J. GREEN TO MI. B. LAMAR Velasco July 11th 1838 1\Iy Dear Genl Colo Bee, recd. a letter this evening from one of our friends at Houston, he says, "Heaven & Hell is striving against you" that, "emisaries are at work in all parts to advance Grayson, interest"- this you ought to know that your friends should not slumber upon their watch- In this part of the country all is safe and notwithstanding the array of big names to 1\Ir. Grayson' invitation from Brazoria county I do not think he will get more than 40 votes in the county- Dr.Archer, just from Matagorda, says things are even more favoura- ble there, Let your friends watch Sam II ouston in the east, he has much at stake in the election of Grayson, he is, rely upon it, the pr-imum Mobile of the oposition, his traveling cabinet are the Whip- pers-in. I feel much solicitude as to my friend Rusk', course- I will either • .go to see him or write him soon~He may do you much good, he can do you much hurt-God forbid the continuance of the present mer- cenary dynasty in the election of J\Ir. Grayson, and if he so ordains it (which I do not think) I am ready to sell out and abandon Texas to her fate-Texas has nothing to fear from J\Iexico but eYery thing from serself, God save her from her ho1ne enemies. · I think it would be a national blessing at present, to have 20,000 · l\fexican soldiers east of the Rio Grande, they could be easily whipped, and their presence would teach us the danger of placing s6Printed with no. 763.
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