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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
.April 1836 before the news cane of the ever memorable Battle of the 21st. I was anxious to get my Friend to New Orleans where where [sic] I could procure medical aid for him but my Friend was-too weak to Stand a Sea Voyage He departed this Life on the 27th of April 1836 at Sea and was consigned to his wattery grave verry much Lamented by all who knew Him except the unfeeling ·wretches before mentioned whom he had befriended so often Dear Genl I fear I shall have tired your Patience allready and will close the Subject with the hope that you will have a better Opinion of some of the Gentleman herein named than your Humble Servant has and please excuse my imperfections-and believe me to be with senti- ment's of Esteem and Honour your · Genl. nl. B. Lamar- Your devoted Serv President of the Republick Thos. J. Alsbury of Texas [Addressed] Big Creek R. [ ] . Double Paid 50 Free Genl. M. B. Lamar Houston Texas (Endorsed] Thomas J. Alsbury
No. 837
1838 Oct. 16, A. JONES TO M. B. LAl\lAR
:Natchez Mississippi Octr. 16th.1838
Genl. l\f. B. Lamar Houston , Texas.
Dear Sir
I congratulate you, on the success of your election to the E'xecutive Office of the new and important Republic of Texas. I have always felt a deep and lively interest in the welfare and advancement of the junior nation over which you have been called to preside. • The rise of Texas to her present station among other nations of the world may be considered one of the greatest phe- nomena of the age, in which we live. And whatever career may be marked out, as that in which she is destined to move,-whatever her future history may be, or her future prosperity or adversity, yet in any event, her story will fill an important and interesting page of history.-The eyes of mankind, civilized and elightened, by" the, times that surround him, are upon Texas and her movements. It has been said a thousand times, that poor weak man was incapable of self Government. And that a period had arrived in the affairs of the United States, when this assertion was to be realized by the wide spl'ead anarchy, that was to follow in the wake of certain indica- tions, of lawless misrule that could not be mistaken. But, what do we see, when these gloomy predictions were prevalent, in variom1 quaters-A new Republic springing up on our borders,-whose
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