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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1448 1839 Sept. 13, E.W. CULLEN, SAN AUGUSTINE, [TEXAS], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS] Introducing Henry Baznet[ ?l A. L. S. 1 p. Re-addressed by Lamar: "To Honbl Louis P. Cook Seer. of the Navy." No. 1449 1839 Sept. 15, H. S. FOOTE, NEW LA BAHIA, [TEXAS], TO M. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 7•4 (Private)
New La Bahia, Septr. 15th. 1839.
My dear Sir:
I embrace the opportunity of addressing to you a com- munication havin[g] reference to matters of great delicacy, and con- cerning which I shall write with freedom and boldness; because the crisis which instigate[s] me to write is a pressing and imperious one, and because I have not forgotten, and. never can forget the zealous professions of personal confidence and kindness with which you have honored me, under circumstances of privacy and with demonstrations of affection, which make it wholly impossible that those professions can ever pass from my recollection.= lify very dear Sir: Let me premise, that I recognize, and delight to recognize you, as one of the few men with whom I have encountered in this unfortunate world, in whose bosom the sentiments of justice and benevolence have perma- nent residence. I do verily believe, and I have delighted to make known, in conjunction with our Roman friend Dr Archer, that you would delight, as President of the Republic, in making known to the people of Texas, & the civilized world, that your acts would be con- stantly regulated by justice and all those high moral virtues without which Government is a cruel mockery and laws a mere trap of destruc- tion. =On arriving in this Country, a few days since, we founrl a state of things prevailing deeply mortifying to our feelings, and ren- dering the most awful consequences to the Republic. The business of cattle stealing, the robbery of private property, has become an extensive and crying evil not confined to the enemies of Texas, but going on, openly in the face of day, to the injury of many of the best citizens of the Republic; and going on under circumstances of violence and even bloodshed, which make it certain that if not staid in its progress, the whole Southwestern part of Texas must be utterly broken up and ruined. The Comanches are, as you have heard are [ sic l doing much havoc, and have already inflicted the most cruel destruction of private property. But, alas! I am sorry to declare it; I am grieved to be constrained, upon unquestionable evidences to state the fact, that there is a strange combination of marauders along the whole western frontier, composed in part of Mexicans, in part of Comanches [ ?] and. in part
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