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of Septr. for Texas and again on the 18th Septr and Doct. Read makes no effort to avail him self of either trip L. P. C. [Addressed] Honorable Louis P. Cooke Secretary of the Navy Houston City Texas. [Endorsed] On Service Letter from Ezra Read. Paris Ilinois August 13th 1839 No. 1404 1839 Aug. 14, T. J. GREEN AND OTHERS, VELASCO, [TEXAS], TO M. B. LAMAR, [GALVESTON, TEXASJ 98
LETTER FROM THE CITIZENS OF VELASCO.
To His Excellency
Velasco August 14th 1839.
President M. B. Lamar. Dear. Sir
The undersigned, in behalf of the citizens of Velasco and vicinity, most respectfully and earnestly desire that your Excellency, if not incompatible with your health and private feelings, will signify some day at which time you will partake with them a public dinner. This the undersigned, as well in behalf of themselves as the citizens they represent, desire in testimony of your private character and public services. They will not dissemble the fact, that it has been with pain they have heard from your enemies, since the organization of your administration, the most indiscriminate abuse of all your public acts as well as individual character. This however, in some measure was to be expected, and your Excellency ought to be flattered by this in- discriminate virulence, when you recollect that the history of the whole world teaches that those governments which, for the time, may have been most abused, were the most energetic, the most pointed, capable and wise. We have seen the wisest, purest and most capable men of Athens adored, expelled, recalled and re-adored by the same people, for the recommendation of mea~ures the most wise and most con- ducive to the public weal. We have seen in the history, (the United States of the North) that administration most abused, which was the most efficient in giving life, form and being to that great republican system; and we undertake to say without the fear of contradiction, that had your character have been of that negative kind-passive, sloth- ful, unenergetic, such an one as could have set with folded arms and brute-like gratification for two years, and see a well organized army dissolved like a snow ball for the want of Goverment influence in furnishing it provisions to keep life together; a navy neglected and destroyed; your coast, time after time, blockaded with a solitary gun boat; your minister taken from your very door and carried into dis- ••Copy by Lamar. In no. 361, p. 232. Printed in the Telegraph and Tea:as Register, Oct. 2, 1839, vol. V, no. 11, p. 3.
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