the public and your fellow-citizens from your own breaches of humanity. But have you effected your purpose. Your African emigrants have scarce yet gained a residence in our country; their native lingo yet betrays their recent importation. Did you expect lo gull the Government and Council, and the public, by your whining affectations of sympathy for Lhe unfortunate, when but a few months have rolled round since your last Ethiopian speculation and importation? or did you suppose that the abuses practised on our coast, would be corrected at the instance of one who, contrary to the laws of his country, had disgraced its borders by the introduction of slaves, natives of, and immediately from, Africa? But it is idle to dwell longer on the inconsistencies and absurdities of your letter; it proves itself, and more especially by the certificates in this communication, to be like Falstaff's lies, "open, false, and palpable." It is not my wish, in answering your letter, lo continue the correspondence; I therefore, in laking my leave of you, have nothing further to say than lo leave you to that corroding worm which never dies, and lo remind you, with what you are already acquainted, that my residence is in the town of Matagorda. S. Rhoads Fisher. P.S.-1 will also further observe, that, having been advised by the same honourable source, R. R. Royall, Esq., and al the same time, that charges of a like piratical and infamous character against captain Hurd and myself, had been laid before the Governor and Council, (and a copy of which he would send me, but from their extreme length, and the hurry of business, was prevented.) by one Isaac E. Robertson, or, as he is more generally and properly known, "dog Robertson." I should also have condescended lo have given his venemous abortion a more detailed notice; but as I am as yet debarred from the honour of its perusal, I shaJI pass the subject, as unworthy further notice, as well from its canine rabies, as its source. ·
S. Rhoads Fisher. [January, 1836]
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