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PAPERS OF :MrnABEAU BuONAPARTE LAMAR
Republic can onr government require f i\iust we wait to see whether another invasion will ever be made, before we acknowledge their iride- pendence? What would have been the condition of our own country if France had pursned the same procra tinating policy 1 Ou~ht we not rather to acknowledge them at once, and by giving a new dignity and importance to their ~tanding, aid in suppres ing all further attempts on the part of their enemies. From us they expect the first approval, and the moral con equence of our reco..,.nition will be inconceivably great. The cre9it of their government will be established abroad, and a 11ew confidence in its continuance inspired at home. They will be enabled to prosecute with renewed zeal the w_ork which they have begun, and show to the world what a handful of men, animated by the love of freed.om, are able to accomplish. It ha been a erted that any intereference on our part in the affeairs of Texas, would 'involve ns in a war with both i\1exico and England. Of this, howeYer, we entertain no apprchen ion . The acknowledg- ment of the independence of a people cannot be con idered a ufficieut ~round of war. It is the mere expression of our belief, deduced from the acts which have come before us, that a nation is capable of "'OV- erning itself, and no nation ha a right to -call others to [a] n account for the character of their opinion . Admitting that l\Iexico hould declare war, in the event of our acknowledging Texas as a separate goYernment, what\have we to fear from a nation which cannot keep in subjection its ~WO colonie~ 1 A it regards England, we cannot for a moment f s]uppo e that she would acrifiee her widely extended and r1J ucrative commerce with our country, for the purpose of quarrelling about a mall and thinly inhabited province, of [n] o importance to her in any respect, and of which she could [n) ot, under any circum- stance , become pos essor. Her whole manufacturing and commercial interests would ri e in arms [a}gaimt such a propo. ition. But if Englru1d did interfere, f n]ay if all Enrope frowned upon the measure, it is the dnty of he United States to offer Texa their fellowship, if she is I f.o Jund deserving of it. Our forefathers fonght, not for their own freedom alone, 1hey contended for the right of men ft]hroughout the western world, and enjoined upon their pos[t]erity to pread their principles whenever and wherever they could, until all America hould be free, and bce:ome one [ G] rand Temple cf Liberty. Ko. 448 1836 Sept. 24, F. A. SAWYER, W[ARREN] D. C. HALL'S, [TEXAS] TO iI[IR.ABE U] B[ ONAPARTE] LAMAR, BRAZORIA, TEXAS Withdrawing a proposal to buy land of Lamar. A. L. S. 1 p. l TO. 449 1836 Sept. 27, J. A. MEXIA TO l\I. B. L.A IAR Genl. 1\Iirabeau Lamar Kew Orleans, Septr. 27th. 1836 Dear Sir, I sieze the opportunity which affords me the 20-Llbrar:,.
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