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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE L~MAR
or protection. Your friends of the interior have animated you with frivolous hopes which will never bear fruit. I speak frankly to your Excellencies as a friend, not as an enemy, because I sincerely desire the prosperity and happiness of the town of Laredo. I am your Excellencies' most obedient servant, Mirabeau B. Lamar. [Endorsed] Letter to Benevidas Ram6n Gonzales- Laredo 1848 No. 2383 1848 Apr. 10 JOSE MARIA RAMON AND OTHERS. LAREDO, MEXICO. TO [JOHN ELLIS] WOOL, MONTEREY, [M~XICO] ~ending their correspondence with Lamar regarding the extension of the Mexican authority over Webb County; denying the good results of the American occupation; appealing from Lamar's reply. L. S. 4 p. Spanish. No. 2384 1848 Apr. 11, M. B. LAMAR LAREDO, TEXAS TO J.M. RAMON AND OTHERS, LAREDO, [MEXICO] 13
Laredo, Texas, Webb County April 11th. 1848
,Jose Ma. Ramon Bracillio Benavides Jose Ma. Gonzales
Gentlemen
I have been informed that you are about to despatch a carrier to the in_terior of Mexico for the purpose of invok- ing the aid of the public authorities, to reestablish the mexican law~ in the County of Webb; and as such a purpose is directly at war with the constitutional ri~hts of Texas, I must require of you to submit your communications to my irn,pection : and aJso to let me know when your carrier starts in order that I mav write bv him at the same time. I regret exceedinQ' your hostile manifestations to the laws of the United . States and of Texas, and ;;incerely hope you may not he the menps of Jeading the good people of this county into any trouble. - If left to themselves, I believe they are not inclined to insubordinacion.
Yours re11pectfully
M. B. Lamar Capt. Commanding at Laredo.
r Addre11sed] To Messrs.
Ramon, Ben~vides and Gonza]es - Laredo --
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