360 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY . ' No. 1756 1840 Mar. 31, G. B LAMAR, SAVANNAH, [GEORGIA], TOM. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 04 Savannah 31st. March 1840 Genl. M. B. Lamar, Dr. Cousin, I recd. yours 27th. Ulto. by mail from New Orleans-yesterday- If Mr. Watrous visit this city I shall be glad to see him- I sent you some 18 or 20 months ago, some Land Scrip issued at New Orleans, for 1600 acres Land to get it located but you have never con- descended to say one word about that_. or any other of the letters 95 I have written you- I shall therefore improve the present occasion when you are an appli- cant to bring you to remember. me- When you give me a reply to that matter stating that the Lands are already located-or that you will positively have them located (provided you can do so conformably· to law) you may draw on Geo, W. Lamar, Augusta Geoa. at 60 days for Two Thousand dollars on my a/c- l wish vou to draw on him rather than on me because I shall be absent after the ·1st. of May til Novr. next, but I will place funds with him in time to meet the Draft- If your correspondent in New Orleans will refer to Jacob Willcox, James Erwin, or G W Denton or E W Gregory, either one of them will satisfy him about the security of the payment- & enable him to negoe;iate on me. For this loan you may send me your Note payable the first of Jan- uary next with interest at 8 pr ct-which address to Geo W Lamar also- I have heard that you were willing to pay Mexico for peace & inde- pendence- I will not condemn such a policy-especially as I am not qualified to judge by a knowledge of all the particulars- But I will take occasion in the abundance of a cool precaution to say-be careful that you do not tarnish the fame of the battle of San Jacinto-& R[e]ly upon it that your swords alone will ever defend you against so treacher- ous a foe- Cultivate your soil, set everybody to work & encourage them to pur- sue it- Not by a Tariff or a system of bounties-but by assuring them the enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, in peace & quietness-the only encouragement an honest men ought to desire- Pursue a rigid economy in all things--;-save every possible expense in the administration of the Government-& let the people rely entirely on their Industry & not on speculation or any other of the various bye roads to fortune- Fortunes made by hard labour, stick like sound flesh close to the bone-while
••A. L. S. (carbon.) "'See no. 870.
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