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I used your name to 1\Ir 1\IcKinney in relation to that or any other speculation
Very respectfully your Obiedient Srvt
A. C. Horton [rubric]
[Endorsed]
A. C. Horton
2nd Angst 1838
No. 777
1838 A'11:g. 3 W. H. JACK TOM. B. LAMAR
Velasco, 3rd. August 1838
:i\ly dear Genl. A few days since there was a meeting holden in this town the object of which was to withdraw Mr. Burnett from the canvass for the vice Presidency, and nominate Col. Bee "in his stead. I opposed this measure but it. was carried.-! am fearful it may have some unfavorable influence on you but you can easily counter- act it should it be deemed necessary. I am not. often sanguine in my hopes or ardent in my calculations but am not oft.en mistaken as t.o the result of elections.-You no doubt recollect my prediction last winter to yourself that you could get more votes than any other two men. I repeat again, the result will prove it. Your friends are active and your triumph will be complete. I think however that some of your friends in their ove,r anxious zeal are likely possibly to do you some injury.- I allude to your Editorial friends whose columns are filled with abuse against Coln. Grayson of a character bordering on scurrility- Between you and G. there is certainly no cause of difficulty and imprudent friends on both sides may produce consequences much to be regetted. The result of the election will soon be known and I feel confident you will double your opponents.
Yours truly
Wm. H. Jack
[E'ndorsed]
[Addressed] Velasco Aug 8
J. F. Jack
Genl. 1\L B. Lamar Houston
Velasco Ju [ly ] 1838 Aug 3.
No. 778 1838 Aug. 4, H. McLEOD TO M. B. LAMAR
Nacogdoches August 4th 1838
Dear General-
I have been but a few days out a sick bed, to which I was confined nearly a month with the most violent fever I ever had~t am
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