[1805) [POLLARD lo SMITH I
Bejar, Jan. 16th, 1836 Excellent Sir: I have bu l a momenl lo wrile you as I am so busy in regulating the Hospital- Things have been in the worst possible state here as you are aware- I hope and have reason to believe they will soon become much better-I ought to have written by the express but knew not when it started- I have only to say that we are much in want of money and lhat some could be collected on goods that are being broughl into this place and the Commandant will do it, yet he is ignorant of the ·rate of duties established by the government- Were he in possession of that knowledge he would avail himself of it now as there are goods here and he talks of charging but four per cent- I am inleresterl in this you will see for the Hospital is in great want of a little money- We shall endeavor to elect as many of our countrymen as possible from this jurisdiclion- what the prospect is I have not yet been · able to learn-I think we have now an excellent opportunity to completely conquer our most formidable foe our internal enemy-the Mexican tory party of the country- I hope every friend of his country will be diligent at his post and from the righteousness of our cause we cannot but succeed.- I am your Excellency's Humble servant, Amos Pollard [To Henry Smith] [ 1806) [STERNE ET AL to HUNT] [Adolphus Sterne, W. H. Bynum, John A. Wharton, A. Hotchkiss, William Bryan, A. C. Allen, Branch T. Archer, Stephen F. Austin, William H. Wharton, W. G. Logan, J. Scott, and A. J. Yates, New Orleans, to Randell Hunt, New Orleans, January 16, 1836, commending him for his "able and eloquent a<l<lress delivered to the Jury by yourself last evening," and his activities in the cause of Texas.]
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