PAPERS OF .l\fIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR 581 in justice to myself, to refuse your application in his behalf, without giving you some of the principal reasons which compelled me to that refusal. These reasons I have endeavored to set forth with as much clearness & force as I could well give them, that they might vindicate the course which I have felt constrained to take. I hope, however, that I have urged them respectfully; and if they have failed to pro- duce the same effect upon your mind, which they have upon mine, I can only ask you to receive them, as I send them, in a spirit of frank- ness & friendship; and most sincerely do I hope, that the difference in our opinions may occasion no dimunition of good feelings.
Respectfully
Your friend and Obt. Servt.
Mirabeau B Lamar
Genl.
Thomas J. Green.
No. 2099 1841 Sept. 24, THO[MA]S J[EFFERSON] GREEN, AND B. F. JOHNSON, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO l\f[IRABEAUJ B[UON- APARTE] LAMAR, r AUSTIN, TEXAS] Report upon .the account of D. P. Barhydt for recording land titles in the General Land Office. L. S. 1 p. · No. 2100 1841 September 27, J. T. SHANNON AND OTHERS, AUSTIN, TEXAS, TO M. B. LAl\fAR,4' [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Austen r Sic] Sept 27th. 1841.
To His Excellency President Lamar
Sir.
We The undersingned Stationed at Th<! arsenal Do Take The liberty of Thus adressing your Exc~lency. To request your interference in our behalf That we may obtain what is Justly Due To us as we have applied To Capt. Goodall and he assures us That he has done all in his power To obtain our Clothes But Could not succeed;- Our application to Colonel Cozenau was alike unsuck- cessfull we Then in a Body went To The Seery. of war and in a re- spectfull manner requested That he would Interfere in our Behalf. He assured us That he would and That The Clothes should be forth coming and still we are disappointed. and now as a last resort we appeal To your well known sence of Justice for That redrPss we have hitherto been unable To obtain It is a fact some of us have not a shirt To put on our Back nor Blankents To prottct us from The in- clemcy of The weather nor indeed Clothing of any kind. But what we Bought with our own money and even That is scarce as we have not received one cent for The last five months. We hope your Excel- lency will remember That we have bee.n detained here while The rest of The army has been Disbanded and we haYe Done our Dutv and are still willing to Do it. and it is a fact susceptible of proof That ws "L. S.
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