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· TE.XAS STATE LIBRs\RY
No. 2140 1842 May 8, M. HUNT GALVESTON, [TEXAS] TOM. B. LAMAR, [GALVE8TON, TEXAS]"• Galveston 8th. May 1842 Gen. Memucan Hunt presents his compliments to Gen. Mirabeau B Lamar, and will be happy to meet him at such time, and place, nnd armed with such weapons, as their friends may avee upon; to settle by single combat the quarrel existing betwen them- Mr. Charles Rossignol who will hand this defiance to Gen. Lamar, is authorized by me to arrange the preliminaries on my part. Yours 'Gen. Mirabeau B Lamar M('mucan Hunt 1 Addressed] to Gen. Mirabeau B Lamar No. 2141 1842 May 8, [M. B. LAMAR] GALVESTON, TEXAS TOM. HUNT, rGALVESTON, TEXAS ]~~ Galveston 8th. May 1842. Genl. M. Hunt. . Sir Genl Hunt's note of this date 8 " has been recd. and Genl. Lamar in presenting his compliments, begs leave to say in answer, that being entirely unconcious of having ever offered any wrongs to Genl Hunt in the premises involved, denies all right on the part of the Genl to demand satisfaction for injuries which Gen] Lamar has never f!Ought to inflict. Nevertheless Genl. Lamar will not permit this to ·-operate as a barier to the desired meeting-. However unjust he esteems .the quarrel which Genl. Hunt has sought to fix upon him, he .cannot :allow the call which is Jll8.0e upon his chivalry to go unresponded ~o. •Genl Hunt's challenge of this date is therefore accepted; & the terms of the meeting will be prescribed by his friend Col. Reuben Brown who is hereby duly authorised to make them known- No. 2142 .[184.e May 8], A. s. JOHNSTON AND OTHERS. [GALVESTON] 81 We understand from common rumor that a difficulty exists betw.?en Genis. Lamar and Hunt which it is supposed will only be terminated by a hostile meeting. · The undersigned as mutual friends of the parties, claim the right to have the matter at i11sue submitted for adjustment (if possible). We remark that in times like the present, that two gentlemen whose Services· are required for their country should not permit per
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