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PAPERS OF ~1JR.\BE,\U BuoN.\P.\RTE L.HfAR
Please let me have a line from you as early as possible and believe me
Your obt. & humble sert. Wm. A. Thompson
No. 68. Christopher Street New York-
[Endor ed] Wm. A. Thom;p on New,-... York- Octr. 1836
[Addressed] His
Excellency
l\Iirabeau Lamar
Vice President of T~xas Tew ·washington Texa
via
New Orleans
TO. 474
'---._ 1836 Oct. 30, W[ILLIAU] LAWRENCE, COLUMBIA, [TEX S] TO M[IRABE U] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, [COLUMBIA, TEXAS]
Application for the office of quartermaster-general. A. L. S. 1 p.
s. l\f. FRAZIER TO ---- II
1836 Oct.,
irr. [ ], I eize a mome[nt to write you] the news that this, our little republican Congress i in full debate on the way and means to establish-a credit, and to exclude snch members as have been elected by the vot of new-comers or volunteers, from seats in their body. The expedition of the l\foxicans, reported by Me rs. Carnes and 'feal, 12 it is rumored, is postponed until the spring, when they intend attacking u with a powerful army and fleet simultaneou ly by land and sea. Gen. Houston arrived on the 11th and in never better health. It is said he will l;>e elected by the Senate to enter immediately on the duties of his office as President, (to ,vhich there i no doubt he has been cho en,) on the resignation of Pre ident Burnett ,vhich is daily looked for. He confidently expresses the opinion that the whole body of the Texian people will vote for our union·with the U. State -I coincide fully with the opinion. The army is in good health, fine spirits and well condition, amounting to probably 1600 to 1800, men under the command, at present, of Col. Johnson, A istant General. It is thought the treaty made with Gen. Santa Anna by the presen executive will be clo ely contesteq in its pas age through the two Houses, but finally be rejected. A report reached here yesterday of a duel fouc,ht at Valasco, between hlaj. Jas. W. Tinsley, from rew York, of Sherman's "Newspaper clipping. UThe letter from Teal and Karnes Is printed in The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical .association, IV, 232. · 31-Llbrory.
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