slightest intimation either from yourself or any one of the Commissioners lo this effect, I am sure you are all entitled holh privately as well as publicly to the benefit of my eontradiclion.- lf circumstances even permitted me lo join your cause, I would certainly not have been guilly or Lhe gross arrogance and absurd folly of making my appearance in a new country in !he shape of a Competitor lo a successful General who was as well entitled lo his command as lo his laurels.- I hope to be able to serve you without even going to your country and being any man 'E> rival.- By suslaini11g your cause on all public occasions and hy endeavoring to bring the force of public oµinion, within the humble sphere of my influence, Lo bear beneficially, first on your emancipation from l\'lexican Domination, and next in favor of your lndcpen<lence as a free, sovereign, and independent Republic or as a member of our Confederacy, as you, among yourselves, may deem mos! compatible with your own interests- ) shall leave !his on Friday, the 1st for Washington where I shall sec both Mr. Forsyth and l\ir. Van nuren and do your Country all the good I can, by urging immediate recognition.- Nor shall my exertions be wanting in New York among your friends to aid your cause, in every possible manner in which it can be benefittcd, as your friends there happen to be some of the best of My own.- I shall be exceedingly happy Lo hear from you at all times, and at no moment will I be more gratified than when I can learn of the prosperity and entire emancipation of your noble and highly promising region.- J. Hamilton- Gen. S. F. Austin-Commissioner of Texas.- P.S. Be pleased to direct lo Charleston South Carolina lo which 1 shall return in about three weeks.-
[Addressed:) Genl. S. F. Austin-Velasco Texas Recd Forwarded by your Obt Servt. New Orleans July 10.
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