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have Done more work Than Twenty one men heretofore has Done in The same length of time. We only mentiQn This fact To prove to your Excellency That we lutve Done our Duty. and having Thus full- filed our part of The contract we do hope The Government will not be Backward in fullfiling Theirs. Relying in full confidence in your Excellency's kind offices we remain your
1\fost Humble Servants James T. Shannon James R. Burt [rubric]
Thomas Haskins Hugh Anderson James Lawrence James M. Wesson Rob Gossett [rubric]
[Addressed]
[Endorsed]
To His Excellency
Troops at the Arsenal Application for relief Sept_ 27- 1841
President of Texas
No. 2101 1841 Sept. 28, T. J. GREEN AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS.) 45
Austin Septr. 28th. 1841-
To His Excellency
M. B. Lamar,
Dear Sir:
I have unexpectedly received your Excel- lencys letter 46 of this date, in answer to mine of the 18th. instant.- I thought your personal refusal of my application was sufficient, there- fore it was unexpected. And I still think you have given unnecessary importance to an application which was so frankly solicited and so promply refused.-I was content under that refusal because it was your constitutional priviledge, but your written answer taken in whole forces me to this general conclusion,-that I wished injury and in- justice inflicted upon Col. Bee, by having my friend Dr. Archer, ap- pointed Minister to the United States; and injustice to the country for his "pecuniary benefit, or individual gratification."-In justice both to Col. Bee and Dr. Archer, as well as to myself I cannot permit the insinuation of such a conclusion in silence.- Before saying more per- mit me to premise-that I regret your Excellency should have bestowed so much time in endeavouring to establish positions to which your experienced and talented friends here with whom I have consulted, cannot subscribe, and which I myself think entirely untenable. Your Excellency will permit me to reiterate the reasons of my application for Dr. Archers, appointment as envoy to the United States, and from which you will readily perceive, that I could not have tortured myself into the belief that any injury or in~
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