TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
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Again referring you to my various communications to the Depart- ment of State & especially my last two, I have the honor to be very respectfully
Your most obedient servant James Treat
To/
[rubric]
/Genl. M. B. Lamar
City of Austin, Texas.
[Endorsed]
James Treat
Octo 23. '39.
No. 1499 1839 Oct. 23, DANIEL DU PRE, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [H]OUSTON [i. e., AUSTIN, TEXAS] Inquiry regarding Texas. A. L. S. 2 p. No. 1500 1839 Oct. 23, R. G. DUNLAP, WASHINGTON, [D. C.], TO [M. B. . LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXASJ 2 u Washington Octr 23rd 1839. My Dear Sir Hope you will allow me to drop you a few suggestions in a private letter. I would not recommend the establishment of an agency for the United States banke- The inducement for this promise was to aid the loan with the banke- The banke has not and wil1 27 take the loan, but it has given its whole influence, with the view to forestall the exchange. This much is all right, as the power of the banke did greatly aid the credit of the country- But you are released from the obligation to recommend an agency- This matter will raise useless clamor in the family without an equivalent benefit. I attend[ed] a meeting of the German [s] in Philadelphia last month and ha[d] many letters since from them. A large number will remove but they wish to go & settle together- some of these are la[r]gely & well connected in business in Germany & they say if the law be ex- tended but for one more, 28 granting donations that thousands will emi- grate to the republic. I think it would be best to grant the sight alone to the actual occupant- This will settle the wasted & wild lands I have no doubt of Genl Hamilton success. I have learned that perhaps there will be an effort to reject my nomi- nation. If you prefer it, you have my hearty consen~ to recall me- [I] just wish you to understand that I am not afraid t[o] stand or 18 A. L. S. 21 Apparently Dunlap omitted a word here. The meaning of the sentence would be dearer if the word "not" were inserted. 28 Her(! again-Dunlap appears to have omitted a word; probably "year."
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