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TEXAS STATE' LIBRARY
No. 804
1838 Aug., [.MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR], HOUSTON, [TEXAS]
Address on republican simplicity and national virtue. A. Df. 3 p.
No. 805
1838, Sept. 4, J. HAMILTON TO M. B. LAMAR
Savannah Sept 4t. 1838
Dear Sir I wrote the enclosed sheets 93 on my passage from New York to this port.- I had hoped I should have had time to ha-ve fairly trans- cribed them, but am compelled to send them off without revision.- The transcript for a supplemental act to your Loan act of the 16t. May 1838. I drew in great haste-If you concur with me in its exped- iency you will have to place it in the enacting form & phraseology.- As I have been compelled to write the Secreta-ry of the Treasury respecting the purchase of the Boat, I have also transmitted him a copy of the transcript-which I considered respectful to the exist- ing Govt.-By setting aside specific funds for the redemption of your Loan it will certainly wear the aspect of a settled determin,a- tion to provide for its redemption.-And in so new a Government as yours the creation at once of a sinking fund, will show a- regard for the obligation of contracts, and a knowledge of financial securities which will strengthen your public credit vastly abroad.- I think with all these means and appliances, your Loan may be effected, and a-t about one half the Cost in the United States the munitions and rnaterial of ·war may be purchased for you in Europe next Summer (if Mexico does not in the mean time come to terms) to enable you early the ensuing Autumn to take the field in great strength.- Should I go to England I wish you to bear in Mind that I desire no public official diplornatic appointment. A Letter to the .Ministers of Foreign Affairs in England & France that I have your con- fidence and am in possession of your views will be sufficient- Your views on all points I will possess myself of when I have the pleasure of seeing you in Texas.-Should my friend Genl. Hen- derson continue your Minister abroad I am sure that my earnest concurrence with him in the great object of his Mission will be entirely satisfactory & agreeable to him My agency however had bet- ter be secret & confidential- I am sure in any objects we may pro- pose effecting tha-t I can procure the earnest & zealous cooperation of my friends JVIr. Stevenson at London & Genl Cass at Paris.- - I hope in a day or two to see your Cousin Mr. G. B. Lamar who is expected from Augusta. As .we are now drawn together by the sympathy of common affliction I hope & confidently' believe that I eaNo. 806.
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