say our confidence has not been misplaced, give us less and you will do more injury to your own cause than ten thousand Bayonets of your Enemy, for who would afterwards Enter into any Engagement with a government which had failed to keep its faith with those who had come to her aid at the most perillous period of her history, and when she was measurable friendless. how comes it that such an enthusiastic feeling of sympahy, now exists in the United States in behalf of Texas? It is not because she is believed to be treated with injustice by the Government of Mexico which inveigled her citizens to settle a country with the promise of certain rewards in the shape of lands, a free government &c, and then attempted a violation of the contract by bringing her under a despotism? Do the people of the United States not believe that Texas is in the right, that she has Justice on her side, and is it not therefore that such a feeling of sympathy exists in her favor, and If when Texas has others in her power she treats them unjustly, will there not be a reaction of this feeling and a general abandonment of her cause? the world cannot Tolerate injustice and will not bear with it. But I am supposing a case which I am satisfied there can be no reasonable fear of. I am induced to believe had you been a member of the Cabinet when the contract of compromise was made, you would have viewed the subject in a different light from what you do and I hope and believe that in some degree the feelings of mortification which you allude to grO\ving out of the disappointment experienced in not receiving the money upon the balance of the loan, has had an effect which is not uncommon, where the feelings bids the Judgement, tho' the intention of the party may be ever so correct, but even had the scrip been sent as befor stated the first lenders finding the market flooclecl 500,000 acres, more of scrip would not have taken the balance of the loan tho' otherwise every man would have clone it. To shew my own confidence, I beg leave to advent to the fact, that when I found the wants of your Government pressing, I placed to the credit of the agency in New Orleans to be used for the cases of utmost necessity, five thousand Dollars of my own private funds, and had it been convenient I would have passed to the credit of the Government ten times as much, but when I found that this additional scrip was thrown into market without any knowledge, of the fact having been communicated to me, I withdrew four thousand of the amount. lt is painful indeed where our feelings have been so decidedly to a cuasc, as ours do to that of Texas, to have any thing to mar them I hope and believe all such will be removed and that we shall be again upon a cordial footing with the Government. We have all, [ presume in some degree, scattered our
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