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derived his knowledge from the Doctor, but not from me; and for the reflections and comments which that writer has thought proper to make upon the facts, he alone is responsible. I hold myself responsible only for the truth of the facts, as I stated them to Doctor Chalmers. Your application, in both cases was unsuccessful. In denying your requests, however, I was influenced by no personal unkindness to you, as my subsequent conduct to you has clearly evinced; but I was governed entirely by a sense of my obligations to the country. In the first application, I did not consider you at all qualified for the high & re- sponsible station which you sought; and besides, I had no disposition to recall Genl. Henderson; I could not perceive in what manner the country was to be benefited by the change. In the second instance, I could not remove Mr. Bryan with any propriety whatever, because I had no complaints against him, and you declined prefering any. Besides, had I actually removed him, I could not have gratified you with the title of Consul General, because no such office is known to our Constitution. That you did apply for both these situations, I pre- sume you will be ready to admit, yourself; should you, however, think proper to deny having done so, I stand prepared to prove the facts. Yours Mirabeau B. Lamar. [Addressed] Genl. Mimecan Hunt present. No. 2135 1842 May 3, M. HUNT GALVESTON, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] 76 Galveston 3d. May 1842 Gen MB Lamar Sir I received to-day your note 77 of yesterday. You state that there are but two facts in "Aristides" with which you are connected. The one an application on my part to be sent in co11- nection with another gentleman now deceased as minister to France-- And the other to be appointed Consul General of Texas at New Orleans. I have !J.lways avoided heretofore and now dislike exceedingly to place my private interchanges with any man where they may find their way to the public, but your apparent wilful misrepresentation of me in relation to the consulship; and the application of Col White deceased of Florida. for a. mission to the Court of St. Cloud forces me in vindi- cation to my self to give a representation of the particular facts and circumstances in both matters. In respect to the Consulship I will state in substance to the best of my memory that about the 1st. of april 1840 I mentioned to you I was at last an applicant for an office and that in asking the office I sought I was asking to disconnect myself as much as possible wit.h the politics of the country, that I had twice taken office under you against
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