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PAPERS OF :MIRABEAU Buo:NAPARTE LAMAR
Accompanying I send you an esti[mate] of the entire amount of provisions required for the whole Navy for the space of six months in order that you may form some idea of the extent of the requisitions now on file for the vessels actually in service I remain your obdt. servnt. Louis P. Cooke Secty Navy No. 1361 1839 July 9, S. A.. ROBERTS, WASHINGTON, [D. C.], TO 111. B.
LAMAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] 55
IP" Confidential
Washington July 9th. 1839
Dear· Genl.
I have frequently had it in mind of late to write to you, as different subjects have presented themselves but, have uniformly been detered from it by the uncertainty attending the transmission of letters from the [this] section of country to Texas, and the fear that my letters from some casualty or inadvertance, might fall into other hands than yours and thereby bring before the public some things which had best be kept silent-This double apprehension will have its influence on me, and may at times involve my meaning in a little ob- scurity-but as I promised you to write on all matters of moment I must not shrink from any idle fears- The despatches 56 which were forwarded by the Steamer New York to Genl. Dunlap found him in New York, from which place he ad- dressed a communication 57 to the Secrtary of State at home, and also three different ones 58 to Mr Forsyth here--These latter after recording, I took to the department myself, and, as Mr Forsyth was absent, I called on Mr Poinsett and informed him verbally of the contents of the one which, from its nature, would be sent to his department for his action-He informed me distinctly, & told me I might so assure you, that the Stipulations in the treaty of 1831 between the U S and Mexico should be strictly and rigidly enforced-that the Indians within the Teritory of the U. S. should be restrained not only by with- holding their annuities but also by a sufficient military force, stationed at some convenient point or points on the frontier- In relation to the Indians from the U. S. who have gotten a foot hold in Texas, he said the U S could not interfere with them,-but that if it become necessary for you to make war upon them in order to expel them from the teritory of Texas, you might rest perfectly satisfied, that they should neither be joined nor assisted . by any Indians from the U S ..A. L. S. ,.See Garrison, Diplom~tic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, I, 396-401. "Printed hr Garrison, op. cit., I, 406 . ..One of these communications, dated June 26, 1839, is printed in Garri,on, op. cit., I, 408. Another, dated June 29, 1839, is transcribed in the Records of the Department of State, (Texas), Book 41, p. 234. The third communication referred to is not on file in' the Texas Archives.
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