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Mercy were deduced on their trial, and in the name of the Court I re- spectfully solicit their pardon. I have the honor to Ire with high respect Your Obt Servt. William L Cazneau Comdg. Genl. Inft. President. No. 1974 1841 Mar. 8, W. G. COOKE AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO 11. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS]3°
Austin March 8th. 1841.
General Mirabeau B. Lamar
President of the Republic of Texas
Sir
The undersigned, in the name of your fellow citizens of this City & County, tender you their sincere congratulations, upon your recovery, from your late severe illness, and your resumption of the official duties of the high station, to which you were called by the suffrages of your fellow citizens- Personal association, General, has enabled us to appreciate the single- ness of purpose, & devotion to the public interests, which ha.e so emi- nently distinguished your administration of the Government We avail ourselves of the occasion in behalf of our fellow Citizens of the frontier, to offer you our grateful thanks, for the prompt & patriotic zeal, with which you have devoted your energies, and the resources at your command, to the extension of our beautiful frontier; by the reclama- tion of our territory, from hordes of Indians, and by the general pro- tection of the citizen; adding to the national wealth, and giYing confi- dence to emigration-. A long line of fertile wilderness, hitherto un- explored, now iq.vites the frontier's man to his congenial home, where peace & plenty will reward his labors. We regret most deeply that Congress in its wisdom, should have abandoned the system of permanent frontier defence; and that too, at a time, when the cost of outfit and subsistence of the Troops, and the dangers & toils of exploring the wilderness, had been successfully en- countered, and will be incurred again, whenever the policy of sustaining the infant settlements, shall be resumed- We believe that our County is worth· all, it may cost to defend it, either against an Indian or a Mexican foe; and if the i,cenes of '36 should recur, and entail a debt, (beyond our present means) upon the next generation, they ought to pay it with cheerfulness, as the price of their inheritance-
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