The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume I

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he should go because We belieYe him to be a man that will not tell a lie either for the White man or the Red man. May you live long and be happy "\Ve are your friends Thomas J. Rusk [rubric] Sam Houston [rubric] P. S. -v,,r e send yqu a letter to our Shawanee friends, and want you to send it to them [Endo1•sed] [Addressed] Letter from Rusk, Houston To Big ifosh and Col. Bowls and others Cherokee Chiefs and Their people By :Mr. Wm Goyen Cherokee Village No. 233 1835 Sept. 25, GONZALES, [TEXAS] CO?.DUTTEE OF SAFETY (G. W. DAVIS, SECRETARY). "TO THE COl\l?,IITTEE OF SAFETY OF l\flNA, A1'TD 'l'O J. H. MOORE, RIO COLORADO," [TEXASl 8 • Asking for reinforcements to repel the expected attack of Ugar- techea in view of the Alcalde's refusal to surrender the cannon be- longing to Gonzales. Printed. In no. 543, p. 1. No. 234 1835 Ser>t. 29, H fENRY] MEIGS, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK] TO STEPHEN F[ULLERl AUSTIN. fSAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN1 TEXAS] 66 Congratulations upon release and return; plots against Austin while in prison; his present prospects; the interest of the United State in him. Copy. 1 p. In no. 3, p. 21. No. 235 1835 Sept. 29, AUSTIN, fTEXASl JURISDICTIO~. COJL\IIT- TEE OF SAFETY (S. F. AUST!~, CHAIR?.IA~), SAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO G. '-V. DAVIS, SECRETARY. OF THE GON- ZALES COM?.lIT·TEB, [GON- ZALES, TEXAS) 81 Promising aid in case of attack; advising a strictly dcfensh·c pol- icy. Printed. ln no. 543, p. 1. •Printed In Foote, H. S., Texas and the Texans, II, 69. The or!glnal Is In the Austin Papers. •To be printed In the Austin Papers. "'Printed In Foote, H. S., Texas and. the TerTans, II, 69.

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