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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAJ\L\R
John Hilliar [ ?] James Rut
P. C. Paul. T. L Miller Jos. Burnham
E S. Botton John Adams
[Addressed] To His Excellency Capt M.B.Lamar Laredo Texas.
[Endorsed]
Genl. Lamar
No. 2324
1847 Mar., [M. B. LAMAR] LAREDO, [TEXAS] TO [D. G.BUR- NET, AUSTIN? TEXAS] 68 Laredo March 1847. Dear Judge, I thank you profoundly for your kind letter of the 23rd. January. 67 I had but one objection to it- it was too short. But I have no right to complain, in as much as I am such a poor correspond- ent myself. I have no news from the army; though it is generally understood that it will take up the line of march, next April for San Louis Potosi. I Emppol'le I shall be doomed to stay behind. You will see in my letter8! of this date to Govr. Henderson, that I have applied to him for authority to raise three companies of mounted men for the protection of this frontier and for the keeping in subordination the Mexican towns above here.. I think the presence of a larger force than my present one indispensible in this quarter, to keep things quiet in the east and north. With three hundred men, I can visit and control a large section of country which is now abandoned by our troops and iA f11st relapsinir to the Mexican domination. -Whatever the Govr. shall desire & order in the marter will be approved by Genl. Taylor.- The post I occupy in this w11r is certainly a very petty and unsuitable one, but the President is determined to gratify his favorite, - your "demented monster" - in all his resentments. Polk is but a poor tool to the malice of that bloated m1111s of iniquitv. - You s,ieak of a bookft 9 called Houston and his republic. His republic! That is true; for the country litterally belongs to him and the people his slaves. I can re- gard Texas as very little more than Big Drunk's big Ranch. But if the author meant to convey that the Republic of Texas wa!l founded by Sam. Houston, hf has assigned th':' [Endorsed] from MB Lamar to David G Burnett incomplete
•A. Df. "'This letter is not now with the Lamar Papers. "No. 2320. "'Lester, C. E., 8am How,ton and His Republic.
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