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PAPERS OF 1\IIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
the world we are a nation.-4 years we have been awaiting fo for peace.- and this section, the farest in Texas, is still an almost deserted frontier: -and by a bold policy 6 months after the battle of San Jacinto we would have commanded it.- When the Central party may be able to invade, England may think proper to make her unreasonable demand. So far as favors, from Either nation, are concerned, I have no faith in theµi,- they are both as unreasonable & treacherous as hell when their interest in L. S. P. are concerned :-and as regards Texas such is her position.- In the loss of Texas, England looses a large amount of her , security for her Mexican debts.- l\fexico looses all her domain to the mountains beyond the Rio Grande.- I again assure you we are all for fight here-and for' driving out the Indians & joining in with the Federalu;t- I know not of a single exception.- Therefore ac- cording to promise I give you the news.- There is a plenty of powder &c and Cannon at Linville, we would like to have some of all here.-
Ever yr. fr. truly Sam'l. A. Plummer
) 1\Iy respects to the Ladies ) ) [Note on margin]
I have not heard a word from Austin since I have been here.-If the Government can stand the expence of 6 months mounted men.-I can with trouble get them.-- But can get 20 to one, better men for a ·single expedition-and less ~xpence_.- No. 1790 1840 Apr. 26, A. T. BURNLEY, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK] TO M. B. LAl\IAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 25
New York April 26th. 1840
To his Excellency
l\I. B. Lamar President of the Republic of Texas
Dear Sir
Tomorrow morning I sail in the- packet Ship Siddons for ERgland, to make another effort to negotiate, the five million Loan for Texas-I could wish I had been in Europe earlier than I shall be, tho' I hope n [o] injury will result from the- delay, as copies of the several acts 26 recently passed by Texas, affecting the subject, have some time since been sent out to our friends in London by Genl. Hamilton-and they have been requested to pave the wav to facilitate as much as possible a negociation Gll our arri...-al- Having received no communication or papers from the Government of Texas up to the 4th. of March last, I left _Louisville on that day for thi£> place, hoping that duplicates of ·all our papers had been sent to me here-and intending if I received them, to haYe left here in the Great Western on the 19th. of March- Receiving no papers here, & being
"'A. L. S. 20 See Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Teaxl!s, II, 62, 64, and 406.
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