PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BTJONAPARTE LAMAR 47 allusion of this kind-But circumstances sometimes invest the merest trifles with a Show of importance-In this instance an explanation of the facts is due to my, client as well as to myself and if I have not greatly misunderstood you, there is a patent error in Mr. Kaufman's application of your remarks on the occasion alluded to. I am not sensible that at any moment during that trial I manifested._ the Slightest disrespect to the Senate, or any member of it. That I Spoke with Some Severity of the Prosecutor, President Houston, is probably true-But I a,m confident that I said nothing of him but what was authorised by facts that can be fully substantiated- It did not therefore enter into my imagination that yourself or any member of the Senate could construe my remarks into disrespect for that body-On the contrary, I should esteem it much the weightier offence, to impute to them collectively .OF individually, so much offi- cial servility as that suggestion would import. You will please therefore to state to me, whether you intend the re- marks designated in the quotation from Mr. Kaufman's speech, as a rebuke. I should. not have put you. to to this trouble, were my own feelings alone, concerned in the matter.
Very respectfully Your Obt. Servt. David G. Burnet [rubric]
[Endorsed] D. G. Burnett 18th Mch 1838 about Rhodes Fisher &C
No. 604
1838 Marr. 18, M. HUNT TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON] Washington City 18th March 1838. My Dear Sir, Having embarked by feelings and my fortunes in the eause of Texas, it is but reasonable, that I should hail, with peculiar pleasure, any event promising a fair and auspicious future. You will therefore, give me full credit when I assert that, no intelligence has given me so great gratification, since I left the Republic, as that of your nomination to the next Presidency. Having participated in her perilous struggles for freedom, your name has become iden- tified with her victories and her glory, and should any prejudice raise its voice against you, a thousand from purer motives, would h11sh it into insignificance. And allow me to say, that your acknowl- edged abilities, will, if they do not entirely, do much to shield you from the assaults of those who are ever ready to vilify and abuse. In some countries, where society is necessarily, mixed and com- pounded of a thousand species and parties, and a still greater variety of nations and opinions, the first thing to be accomplished, is, an -unity of interests and affections. From these, the nobler sentiment
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