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point he desires to carry- Yet when it comes to the execution, he. fails entirely, and all the time seems to regard his communications .as :finished compositions- You will not misconstrue my motives from the Candour with which I have spoken I only mention to deplore it- He is in fact, so true a friend of yours & of your administration so open, candid, fearless & indefatigable in the service of the country, and withal so good a friend of mine, that I should deeply deplore a discontinuance of your confidence & favor-only another time employ him where he can act without being from his station required to write- Of course you will have heard before this that Genl. Hamilton sailed on the 6th. in the Steamer Liverpool-1\Ir Burnley having gone on the 25th. ulto :- Genl. Dunlap is still in N. York where he went to sign a second set of Bonds- About the 1st. of June I wrote to two or three of my family, (as well as I can recollect, to Pa Sisters Olivia & Laura)- I also sent a copy of the Globe of about that date containing an Editorial on the subject of our Foreign relations prospects &c, which was written by me, but attributed by the Editor to Genl. Dunlap-he having procur!')d the insertion of the article in the Editorial form- The same article in any other news paper, than the official organ of this Government, which is know [n J to exert so great an influence over the conduct of the President, would not be a matter of much consequence, but pub- lished at the time it was, & in the paper it was, it created much con- versation here and had a most happy effect upon the Representatives of Foreign Nations residing here- I sent the paper to Pa, desiring them to have it rep:rrblished in the Texas papers with suitable com- ments- This was to help you at home- But from the time at which the Cuba was lost, I much fear that not only my letters but the paper also was lost as I understood the mail went over board This if it is so, is to be much regreted, and I think you had best direct your Secretary to look up the paper & send it to M:r Jewett desiring him to publish it with observations thereon- I think it is in the papers of the 1st. or 2d. of June- The second Schooner sailed for Galveston a few days ago, and a Brig I am told will be ready for sea in about two days more and all the others -will follow in quick succession-so that you will have it in your power very soon to act if you please on the offensive, at least at sea- How you may like the letter 59 which Genl. Dunlap recently wrote to the Secretary of State, here, on this subject I know not- For myself I forbear an expression of opinion, upon the policy of Texas, (as therein stated) waiting the result of the offer of mediation on the part of the U States which I think it more than likely now will not be made, at least for the present as Texas has no A.gent in ~Iexico, empowered to treat- I think it would have been better, not to have made any communication on the subject at all, or at least, not until instructions could have been re- ceived from home, giving a full detail of what had really transpired- The letter refered to was written from New York,- I think he sent a copy of it to Mr Burnet-
"Printed in Garrison, op. cit., I, 408.
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