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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuONAPARTE LAMAR
any assistance from the Government The last encounter we had with the Hellish Indians Occasioned the death of Eleven of our most Worthy County men Six men of Families Should this place breake The Citizens of Robertson County must breake up and leave their homes We therefore pray for as much assistance as will give security to our most exposed settlements until a regular Campaign is fited out against the Indians \Ve therefore request of your Excellency a few lines in answer to the above and should you from circumstances think it advisable to breake up and leave this place write and give us the advice you would to a near and respected relation under a similar circumstance Should you think it advisable to stand our Ground write also Should your Excellency condescend to answer the above adress J,.! . . Owen the P ..M of this plaee and we will ever venerate and respt in extreem haste Youll'S \Vith due respet Citizens of Franklin
[Endorsedl Resolutions & Petitions
:M'. B. Lamar [Addressed] Franklin 9th F€bruary 1839. R.C.
from Robertson Countv for Protection &c · Recd. 20th Feby 1839.
To His Excellency MB.. Lamar
City of Houston
No. 1048
1839 Fe;b. 7, C. B. FANGER, HOUSTON, fTEXAS], TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS] Application for appointment as stock commissioner. A.L.S. lp.
No. 1049
1839 Feb. 8, W. J. JONES TOM. B. LAMAR
Bastrop Febry 8th 1839.
Genl M. B. Lamar
My deaT Sir,
In a letter, which I addressed to the Secretary at War a few days sinc•e relative to the contemplated expedition against the Comanchees, I took occasion to refer to the importance of the Santa Fe _trade and of the facilities of diverting it to the -Colorado Valley, the natural outlet for all the commerce of the North Western Territory of Texas, at this moment the most productive portion of it. The lowest estimate of the trade of what was formerly New Mexico has been placed at $20.000.000 (millions), consisting of gold & silver and the rich furs of the mountains, which now pass out by the Red River Valley and the Rio Grande, building up the . towns of St. Louis and Matamoras. . T~e heavy obstacles opposed to this trade have served to curtail it~ profits and to damp the energies of the miners and trappers. The immense
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