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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
persons whose names have been mentioned. The fi;st named has acted very covertly & holds out that he is your friend, but we know him. Gov. S.-has been here for some time past doubtless for the pur- pose in part, if not chiefly, to control the election, but all thaChe & his could effect was barley [barely] to prevent a, unanimous vote for Lamar. 27 votes were polled & 26 were given for you. & 25 for Burnett, the rest were suppressed-. If the relation in which you you [sic] stand to Borden politically or otherwise will not make it improper to see him, you will judge whether it may not be useless to have a personal interview with him on: this subject. You are outhorized to say that, if necessary, I will accept the office. Rather than ha,ve the office to pass to pass [sic] into the hands of our opponents, if nothing else can be done Reuben had better return to his post- Reuben will learn from you & his brother Alexander what arrange- ments are contemplated for the accommodation of my family at Houston next winter. If you have occasion to make any other than tha,t spoken of last winter I wish to [be) apprised of it & provide accordingly.
Respectfully
Genl 1\1. B. Lamar
yours W. Roberts
[Addressed]
[Endorsed] Wm. Roberts
Genl. Mirabeau B. Lamar Vice president Houston
Aransas 5 Sept 1838 Private
No. 810
1838 Sept. 6, B. E. BEE TO M. B. LAMAR
"\V Groces
on the Brazos
Sepr. 61th 1838
M:y dear Sir, I had hoped to have had the pleasure of being with you before this-but have been so afflicted a,s to have been compelled to move slowly having travelled from Nacogdoches to this place in [sic l a pony. Tho I have had much fever it was occasioned by boils not bile so that after a time it will be of no moment.-The Election is over-and as I predicted you never were for a l\Ioment in dan- ger-you had the popular ea,r at the start and there was no depriv~ ing you of it.- I of course did not intimate to Rusk the fear of some of your ·friends-but discovered in conversation that he would have considered it a direliction of honor to have opposed you at any state of the canvass.- I found the President and him- self rather at points than otherwise, arising from recent occur- rences-but upon his rea,ching San Augustine he wrote Rusk in a very different style.-They tell a thousand anecdotes of Houston during the excitement-alike unworthy of him as a. man and the
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