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the Navy, in which event you will send as many from the Wharton on the application of Comdr J. G. Tod, as you can, to assist in getting them out, and stowing them, wherever Capt Tod directs.
Very Resptfly &c E. lV. Moore Capt Comdg Texas Navy--
To Comdr. Geo: Wheelwright. ) Brig Wharton, Galveston Bay. ) [Endorsed] copy
No. 1826
1840 J1ine 26, JA[l\IEJS H. STARR, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO REUBEN l\L POTTER, VELASCO, [TEXAS] Tendering the appointment of commissioner of revenue. L. S. 2 p. No. 1827 1840 June 28, J. ADAMSON, LONDON, [ENGLAND] TO [l\I. B.] LAMAR, [GALVESTONJ 58 No 11 Stock Bridge Terrace Pimleco London June 28 1840 Honorable Sir I beg leave to address you on the subject of Emigration & you have been apprised of my motives in coming to this Country & which if followed up would be of great publick utility-I asure you Sir-my exertions have been indefatigable & indeed my time entirely devoted & ocupied in promoting the interest of your Government & Country- Shortly after my arrival I wrote & afterwards had an interview with Lord Palmerston also the Rght Honrbl Sir Robert Peel who expressed a great desire to forward the views I stated to them- at the same time setting forth the objectionable parts the Government had in not recog- nising the Texian Government namely that of the connecting between the l\Iexican Governt & t_hat of England also that of slavery was wry innimical to the feelings not only of the Government but that of the people.- In order to obviate there objections I remarked as a medical man that it was impossible to raise bottom sugar & others productions of Southern latitudes without the labour of the African people & & - & that it must be obvious to them the great injury there own Colonies had sustained since the emancipation of the Negro in the British Islands & &'---- From the immence number of applications that are daily made to me by agricultural & mechanical people for the purchass of Lands & the great desire to Emigrate holds out a most pleasing prospect & were I placed in a situation to treat with them for the sale of Lands, the result would be that of raising a large sum of money & furnishing Texas with a number of rich & industrous people. This project carried into effect would tend in a very great degree to remove the predudices of this Go,ernment
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