conduct toward you I shall be equaly frank in saying to you that my confidence in you is I think for ever at an end I am not your enemy and trust never will be but at the same time I am now fully convinced that you can not be any thing else but an injury to your country where you have influence. I have warned you of dangers which were preparing for you but shall never again raise my voice in your defence or warn you of any thing which may come to my knowledge against you If you are ruined it shall not be my fault nor will I ever be found to take any part in your fate or your fortune all the difficulty I have ever had in that country has been on your account. I do not intend to say you are dishonest no Sir but you are from your nature useless in any thing like a public capacity and your illusions and remarks in that letter to me from N. Orleans are [blank] . You will verry probably find yourself unsuslained in your pledges for Texas declaring Independence Thos. F. McKinney (2151] [ST. JOHN to SMITH]
Mobile 22nd February 1836
His Excellency Henry Smith Governor of Texas Sir
On this memorable day-dear to the Hearts of every American who would venefrate the memory of "the Father of his country"-! would beg leave lo offer to the People of Texas a donation of Five Thousand Dollars to aid them in their present struggle for Liberty-a struggle lo free them from the shackles of usurpation through tyranny- Your order-or that of the proper officer of the Texian Government on Mr. Henry Williams-will be duly honored for that amount. It is known to many of the early settlers in Austins Colony that in 1832 at the solicitation· of Sarni M. Williams I visited that colony-I can scarcely express the delight I experienced in viewing this "Garden of America" - The most beautiful Parks in England or created at equal expense never excited the pleasurable sensations which pervaded my heart in witnessing natures product
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