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PAPERS OF Mm.ABE.AU BuoN.AP.ARTE LAM.AR
fe[llow citizens beg] most respectfully to tender you a welcome to [~he] city of Galveston. Our fellow citizens, [wishing] to avail themselves of the opportunity which [your] visit amongst them affords to offer some [particular l testimony of their high regard and esteem [for your] private worth and public service, and [to mani]fest their continued confidence in the in[tegrity and] ability with which you have conducted [every] de- partment of the Government, solicit you to [partake] of a public dinner at such time as your co[nvenience] may suggest. "\Vhile the performance [of this] duty on behalf of their fellow citizens affords [much J gratification to the undersigned, the pleasure [is] a little enhanced by the occasion it affords of expressing to you indi- vidually, the great consideration and esteem with which they have the honor to be most respectfully,
Your obedt. Servants Tod Robinson. Wm C Enos John S Evans Thos Bates A A M Jackson
Jno A Settle Jas H Cocke B C Franklin
Galveston June 1st, 1840.
No. 1810
1840 Ju,ne 2, JI.I. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO CITIZENS OF GALVESTON, [TEXAS] 45 Gaheston June 2nd, 1840 Gentlemen, Your letter of yesterday, 46 tendering [me] a public dinner in the names of the citizens of ~GalYeston,J has been receirnd and read with pleasure, bu[t not] without its producing some embarassment as [I feel] I shall decline such a flattering invitation with [out J doing injustice to my appreciation of the proffere[d] hospitality. The pecuniary languish- ment of this se[ason J of the year, forbidding unnecessary expenditures. in [social] indulgence, together with the absolute claims [which] busi- ness of a public nature must haw upon my [time] and·attention, during- my short continuance upon [the] island will be received I hope, as a. satisfactory apology for not accepting an honor, the tender of which has afforded me much unalloved satisfaction. Xext to conscious recti- tude, the approbation of my"fellow citizens is the most cheering and acceptable alleviation to the toi [l] and perplexities of public office; and whilst the assai[lants l of party violence and personal animosity are calculat[ing] to inflict a slight and transitory annoyance, the [presence] of the wise and good, impress the mind with [an] a.biding satisfaction, which raises it superior to [the] trials and vicissitudes to which it is subjected. For the kindness and esteem which you manifest to me individually
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