have every reason to clepricate any step which would Lenci to injure the Government in public estimation, and therefore to conceal Lheir own imagined wrongs-I say "imagined" because while your government and themselves differ, it is fair to presume that both parties believe themselves in the right, for if any government would do an act of injustice, knowing it lo be such, furlher negotiation with it would be useless, for no higher tribunal exists lo enforce a right, and if an appeal to sense of Justice, will not obtain it, it must be abandoned. Wherefore should an appeal be made to the Justice of a Government where none was supposed to Exisl? I should never do it. Such is not my opinion of the Government of Texas, or I should not now trouble myself with this communication, for two reasons-First I should not hope lo obtain any consideration for what I paid her, and 2nd, if I did, in her title lo land it would be of no value, for she would never have the land lo give, because without good faith no Government can exist even one long established may date the commencement of its decay from the time its plighted faith is violated, and one just dawning into existence would perish at the moment of its birth, if found wanting in honor, for without commerce or trade, and without reward on what has it to rely for subsistence but its credit cleslroy that and what becomes of her? she perishes as a matter of course. To believe that the Government of Texas would be guilty of a deliberate act of bad faith, would he to suppose her capable of deliberate self destruction, which is preposterous the difference between the Government and the lenders must be presumed an honest one of opinion. At least until what is Justice shall be made glaringly to appear, and be then refused. In as respectful and as concise a manner as practicable I will endeavor to give what I consider to be the Just view of this subject, with an acknowledgement however of my equal falibility with the balance of human nature, but with an assurance of a candid and an honest intention. If I misstate data, or draw wrong conclusions it wiJI be clone unintentionally. When the Texian Commissioners arrived in New Orleans, they found it absolutely impracticable to obtain a loan of money upon interest, the hazards of the adventure were deemed too great. But the hope of a good speculation, in case Texas succeeded in her struggle, induced the first lenders to conlracl for a loan of $200,000, ten pr. ct. payable in hand and the balance when the contrnct should be ratified by the convention or not, at the option of the lenders. Whether the commissioners were empowered to make the loan or not, on the terms which they did the takers gave themselves little concern to understand. They knew the commis-
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