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PAPERS OF M'IRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
with luxurient fields. And now in the pride of her strength and the fullness of prosperity-knowing no wants; feeling no feebleness and fearing no perils, she offers to receive you into her bosom, and share with you her affections, her hopes, her fortunes; in a word she invokes you to withdraw from the domination of corruption and injustice, and uniting with her under the same Government, to climb together that loity eminence to which she is rapidly ascending. Believing that you are the friends of liberty, and will duly appreciate the motives by which we are actuated, we have appointed commissioners to make known to you in a distinct and definite manner, the general desire of the citizens of this Republic to receive the people of Santa Fe, as a portion of the national family, and to give to them all the protection which they themselves enjoy. This union, howeve:r, to make it agree- able to this Government, must be altogether voluntary on your part; and based on mutual interest, confidence and affection. Should you, therefore, in view of the whole matter be willing to avail yourselves of this opportunity to secure your own prosperity, as well as that of your descendents, by a prompt, cheerful and unanimous adherence to the Government of this republic we invite you to a full and unreserved inter- course and communication with our commissioners, who are instructed to extend to you every assistance and co-operation to effectuate the object desired; and, at the same time, to assure you that your relio-ion will in no wise be interfered with by this Government. The only ch;nge we desire to effect in your affairs, is such as we wrought in our own when we broke our fetters and established our freedom; a change which was well worth the price we paid; and the blessings of which we are ready now to extend to you at the sacrafice of our own lives and fortunes, if you are ready to receive them; and if not we have ordered our com- missioners, not to interrupt you in any of your rights, nor to disturb your tranquility, but to establish with you, if possible such commercial relations as you may deem conducive to your own interests and then peacibly retire from your city MIRABEAU. B. LAMAR No. 1973 1841 Mar. 4, W. L. CAZNEAU, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TOM. B. LAMAR, [AUSTINJ 88 Austin March 4th. 1841 To His Excellency Mirabeau B Lamar President of the Republic of T[exas] Sir- Alter having performed the painful duty of trying the Irish- man of Company E 1st. Regiment Infantry, charged with desertion and affixed the stern sentence which the Sin demanded I am instructed bv the Court to recommend to your Excellency a mitigation of that Sen- tence in the case of Corporal Jacob McMinds and privates Josiah R. Edgar and Charles Laducer. Circumstances favorable to them not tangible enough for proof but strong enough to incline the Court to
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