wry friendly lo Texas and ii would he an advantage lo Lhal country if he would pay ii a vi:-:il. I do not write home h~· thi:-: mail, so you can send this to tlwm, and :.:ay that I beg of them all lo have nothing lo du with tlw politics of this country-I mean the present civil disscnlions-a dt·ad sill'ncr a dead calm as to these family fpiarrels is Lhe only proper course for Tt'xas- I know nothing of what is going 011 at Monclova, nor of your opinions about these mailers-but feel confident they are similar lo mine- I 11m dr.cidedly of the opinion that the federal system is in no danger al present-There will be some change, but not a radical one- This is my opinion S. F. Austin \Ir. S. \I. Williams [Addressed:] (Coahuila) D. Samuel M. Williams Monclova
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Monclova 15th April 1835
~ly Friend,
I received yours of the 2st inst by yesterdays mail for which I feel much obliged lo you and am sorry that I cannot write you definitely as lo our business, hut such is the uncertainty of every thing that dr.pends upon a Mexican Congress, that I am al as great a loss now lo say when we shall be probably dispatched as I was when we left home-some cussed thing or other is constantly thrown in the way and th,~ congress is disposed al any the slightest pretext-lo keep from business that judging from the gate they
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