PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
remember me most kindly to our Mutual friend Mr Charles Watrous. I have the honor to remain with the highest sentiments of regard Yr Most Obdt Svt Wm. Henry Dangerfield His Excellency M. B Lamar r Addressed] [Endorsed] To W. H. Dangerfield His Excellency San Antonio 9 Mch 1838 respecting Hist of Texas & c Mirabeau B Lamar VicePresident of Texas Houston No. 691. 1838 Mar. 15, H. W. CATER, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, TO MIRABEAU B [UONAPARTEl LAMAR, [HOUSTON], TEXAS Introducing George Vaughan, of Lowndes Comity, the father of James and William E. Vaughan, Goliad victims of Capt. Jack Shack- elford 's company. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 692
1838 Mar. 16, J. WOODWARD TO M. B. LAMAR Dear Sir Some time since I done myself the pleasure of sending you a pamphlet 63 upon the empresario claims; but lest you should not have received it I have the honor of transmetting another by Doctor Smith. I should esteem it an honor should this subject meet with your early and discriminating attention as it is one which in my humble opinion, as well as that of many others entitled to more weight, is of the highest importance to our Republic. If it be left to litigation there is no knowing how long it may hang over our coun- try, or what forms it may assume, as each individual may urge his claim in his own way and as it.may also cripple our treaties with Gov- ernments whose citizens may have a-cquired rights well recognised by comity custom and equity. It cannot escape us that the laws passed by Texas affecting .this subject may be considered as ex-parte as far as they might be in collision with private right,· and at least not very gracefully received in other countries or by the claimants of our own. This, with arguments submitted in the pamphlet, will tend to shew the prudence and strict. policy of a compromise when an opportunity offers for effecting it. When once the subject takes its inception I shall endeavour to make it general and conclusive. Gen- eral Henderson addressed me a letter, before I accepted the trust, in which he expresses the opinion that such a compromise would be
63 Arguments ana Observations on the Empressario Contracts of Texas.
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