sonally as we might and ought to have- I hope for the good of Texas that we shall harmonize in future, all parties arc injurious to our country at this time. We are few in numbers, and we must be united. Williams will give you the gcnl. news of the times. I wish you lo gel him to attend immediately after his arrival lo the business I left a memorandum of with you- Life is uncertain and such matters ought to be closed finally- I recommend the Bank he has made arrangements to pul in operation-it will be very usefull to Texas and I hope there will be no opposition to it- I cannot believe there will be any- Love to Sister and the children remember me to your neighbors- S. F. Austin f Addressed:] James F. Perry Esqr. Peach point near Velasco Texas [per] S. M. Williams (22391 [BROOKS to BROOKS]
Forl Defiance Goliad, Texas. March 4, 1836.
My dear Sister:-
Another opportunity of writing to you occurs, and I embrace it because they are infrequent, and becoming hourly more so. The precarious channel, through which all lellers rnusl arrive at, or go from this place, affords, indeed, the only satisfactory explication of your mysterious silence; and the belief that yours have been intercepted or miscarried, is consoling indeed, for it renders doubtful what, in my moments of desperation, I have often-feared is certain-that you had forgotten your poor, wayward brother. Why is it so? Why have you not written? War, it is true, "opens a vein thal bleeds Nations to death," but why should it invade the sanctity of social connection? Why should il dissolve fraternal bonds or sunder domeslie ties? Is il necessary that we should be morally, as well as physically separated? Thal the associations of infancy, the remembrances of child hood, the anticipations of youth, and the
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