been standing up for the cause, against the monied and mercantile influence of our City, and who have come well nigh being crushed by i't, will continue to do our duty and we are partially compensated for the persecutions we have passed through, by being able, since the arrival of the last accounts from you, to hold up our heads in triumph:-for most of our enlightened citizens are driven into the belief that, there is at last some faint hope to be indulged, that you will finally succeed in establishing and maintaining your Independence. As I am too much pressed this morning by office business to write much, I have enclosed you a copy of a letter, I had the honor of addressing a few days ago to the acting Governor of Texas and to crave your attention to its contents. The deep interest which I feel in the success of your cause, influences me to hazard an opinion in the way of advice, which I do hope will not be misconstrued as I can have no personal interest in giving it. It· is, that you have too many agents in the United States. I have myself had much to do with what may be called the business part of mankind, and have received some severe lessons in that branch, called agencies, and I have long since come to the conclusion that, in the management of the affairs of government as well as those of the ordinary transactions of life, there should be but one general head: and I fear from what I can see and hear upon this point that you will have cause for believing as I do, unless you immediately concentrate all the business to be transacted in the United States, into the hands of one general Agency, with general and discretionary powers, and I think that New Orleans is the proper point for such an agency:-and as a proof of the sincerity of my motives in giving this advice I must inform you that it will not be in my power to accept the appointment if it were tendered to me:-1 will, however, if general powers should be given me, do all in my power, at all times, and under all circumstances, to aid your generous and heroic struggles: and before I close my remarks upon this subject, I must say with great pleasure that I do not believe you could select better agents than those already appointed here, through whom all business should be done.
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