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Universe for me-He was I might almost say the main spring of every action, the object of my fondest and deepest emotions- Oh surely never was Brother loved as he was loved and truly he deserved it all.- You perhaps can. form some adequate idea of my desire to have him restored to me, that I may look upon the spot of Earth that contains him - with the assurance that if lost to me in life- we shall be reunited in Death, and I, that I shall not be an alone, the last and only one of my family. -- I have written several· letters to Mr. Lusk, the partner of my Brother and requested I believe one of them to be, handed to you - I entreated him to have this object so dear to my Heart, accomplished without delay, and suggested my confidence in you affording every assistance &c. &c. - I said to him then as I feel now, "Give me my Brother or I die"- I can say no more to you - .I need say no more to yow - You can apprecite and understand all I would say- Ah! Sir I have heard from lips that ne,ver lisp'd but to convey joy and pleasure to this bruised and Broken Heart such glowing accounts of you, and your chivalrous character and deeds, that I feel I am not addressing a stranger but a kindred Spirit to the one I mourn - l\Ir. Joy of this place is the agent we have selected to be the Bearer of my Brother &c &c.-Will you aid and facilitate him in all he req11ires.* and in doing this confer a lasting favor and obligation upon the Sister of yornr friend - I know there will be difficulties to encounter in that New Country, the most prominent of which how- ever, we lfave anticipated . I can not be more explicit my Dear Sir, but refer you to l\Ir Joy I am to myself a wonder that I lm!e to make the requests I have - Forgive me and excuse the liberty. I have only been Encouraged and embolden 'd to make them, in the certainty and Knowledge that he would have done as much. (Ahl what would he not have done for a friend.) There is anoth@r matter to which I take leave to call your atten- tion, not only as a friend, for such I must consider you, but it possi- bly may come under your notice in your official capacity I refer to Jim, the Colored Boy my Brother took out with him, ( and whom yo1t may possibly recollect, being in attendance upon him at the battle of San Jacinto-) He was a family servant we brought from the South, which in itself would interest me for the Boy - But added to this, the fact of his being the body S'ervant of My Brother, and no doubt attending him in his last moments, renders him to me an object of peculiar solicitude and regard - If living, it is my earnest wish that he return with the------ of his master.- Is, it requiring too much of you my Dear Sir, to request• you to speak or write to Mr Lusk on this suibject I need not say to you, that a line or word from the Chief Magistrate of the Republic would not only have a great weight and effect You rnust Know that in almost any case it would be Omnipotent - Another word and I have done - Why was it not announced in the Columns of your press - · Had he not the Honors of Wad Has no tribute been paid to such worth? Forbid it Heaven - It would be a National reproach From a hundred mouths the question has been asked What does this mean? A Hero of ~an Jacinto
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