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been endeavoring to knock it all in the head, asserting before Hamiltons arrival, that he was coming & that he had power to grant better terms to France than those about being concluded on by Henderson-that the President (you) told him so- I knew this must be false, but I much £ear his intermedling will prove a serious injury- Genl Dunlap I think will be back soon- I shall urge him to write immediately to you- Hoping to hear from you in reply, I remain Your friend & obt Sirvt Saml A Roberts More than four months ago- I [a] proposition to regulate the inter- change 0£ mails 87 was sent by Genl Dunlap from the P M Genl here to the P. M General in Texas The communication must have miscarried or else there has been great remissness on the part of our P. J\1 Genl in not replying- He can & ought either to accept or reject it- and in either event we ought in common courtesy to reply to the P l\f Genl of the U S particularly as the proposition originated with us The arrangement is an excellent one for Texas and ought to be adopted- S AR [Addressed] His Excellency M. B. Lamar Houston Care Texan Agint Texas New Orleans Coµfidential No. 1459 [Endorsed] Letter from ·Samuel A Roberts Washington Sept 4th 1839 1839 Sept. 25, J.M. DOR, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS, DEPOSITION Republic 0£ Texas ) Copy- ) County 0£ Galveston ) personally appeared before me James McKnight a Justice of the peace in and £or the County aforesaid and in in [sic] the absence of the chief Justice acting notary Public. this 25th day of Sept A D 1839- John 1\1 Dor a citizen 0£ the county aforesaid who upon oath deposeth & saith that sometime in the latter part of feby or beginning of march 1838 in the. town & county 0£ N acogdoche:.: he wa~ requested by Simeon wise of said town and county in as much a~ deponent was well acquainted with his Excellency the president Sam Houston, also at that time in said town to npresent to his Excellency that he the said Simeon Wise had received, undoubted information that there were Between two or three hundred Indians and l\Iexicans col- lected somewhere about the forks 0£ the Trinity River, and who were keeping a Regular Correspondence between matamoras and the dis- affected Mexicans of the District 0£ Nacogdoches, of whom Vincenti 89 "'The correspondence between the Post Master General of the United States an~ G~nl. J?unla~ relativ;e to the prop?sition tor regulating the interc~angc of mails 1s prmted 1n Garrison, G. P., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republia of Texas, I, 388, 390-94. 88 Vicente.
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