members of the company I only want what any Just man of inteligence would say was the true construction of the contract. I enclose a form of scrip which I think Embrnccs the conditions of the contract, which you must admit docs, the only question then which can arise is as to the amount to which I am entitled. That, as I have shown, is plain enough, if I am Entitled to the benefits of the compromise, as I have signed it and done no act to forfcit my right to it, I am bound by it, and Entitled to its benefits. I had SI0,000 of the first stock in my own right and soon after the loan was made I bought out Mr Whitings interest of $500 more. I also hold S2000 of the second loan in my own name and $1500, worth as a sub claimant- My account against the Government I will also take in scrip, which I will make out as soon as I have time and forward it. Allow me my Dear Sir, to Hope this maller may be speedily and amicably arranged for as much as our interest depends upon it, yours depends infinitely more. At this vcrry moment I am concerned with a company of Gentlemen who are organizing for great operations in Texas, and If the capital is completed, and a large part of it is already raised, they will perhaps give as great an impulse as any thing which been yet done in favor of your country. But in case this contract of compromise unfortunately is not carried into Effect, the whole scheme must fail for the scrip is lo form a portion of the basis of the whole arrangement and it was to put it into this company that I have been written to to buy scrip at a premium. I assure you Sir, that I have in my possession now a letter authorizing me to go as far as 75 to 80 els, for Scrip for this purpose, & let this scheme fail and the same individual will not give 50 ets for it, nor buy it at any price. I have Expressed a confidence, amounting to a certainty, that the scrip would be recieved. Operations have been based upon my statements, and I now feel most awkwardly & unpleasantly situated. Some time since I wrote to Mr. Christie not to sell my scrip as arrangements were making which would make it worth one Dollar pr acre lo me. If it is my our management made worth $1.00 on our portion, will not the same value attach to other lands of the Government, if the market is not glutted? It will, and I hesitate not to say, Sir, that those who are interested in those lands, and the sub purchasers, can do as much for Texas as any other persons, who can be enlisted in her favor. Cast them off-disgust them once and you will never find others more valuable. From the tone of letters received by me from New Orleans, I apprehend my feelings do not Exhibit a type of the oth1:rs interested. But a great stake is depending, and I am disposed
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