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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
1st. I shall leave this on Friday the 16 for New Orleans & hope by traveling night & day I hope [sic] to reach that City on Wednesday Morning the 21st. I shall remain in that City until Thursday the 22d. & leave in the Berwick Line Boat. I hope to reach Galveston on Friday night & to leave it on Saturday for Oyster Creek. I hope to be at Richmond to take the Stage on Wed- nesday or Thursday the 29h. for Austin I hope to see you at some one of these points. I hoped to have induced your kinsman Charles Lamar on the security of your Salary to advance the money for your outfit without a sacrifice to enable you in comfort to depart. But with the expression of the kindest feelings to you personally but he he [sic] assured me that the expense of building a large flour mill in the City of Savannah absorbed all his cash means & credit & that he had not a dollar to share. I will bring on with me a Letter I ex- pect in a few Days from the Asst. Secy of State informing me of the usual mode by which money is raised on a Ministers Salary Let me see you if possible before I go to Austin that I may aid you all in my power. You will find my address at the St. Charles in N. 0. & leave your own there if you should arrive in that City first In Galveston you will find me at Gen. Sherman's If you should still be at Richmond I shall of course see you there. ----- It may be a question My Dear Genl. how far it would be politic for you to write the address you proposed as it might look like an affair got up by preconcert. I have mislaid my address to the People of Texas greatly to my regret. I give you a hasty sketch of my Serv- ices in the Cause of Texas that if need be you may speak from the card if you conclude to write at all I remain with esteem Gen M B Lamar Yours most faithfully J Hamiltn 1 Immediately after hearing of the Battle of San Jacinto I remit- ted $500 as my subscription towards buying provisions & ammunition fo the army of Texas. 2dly. I was soon after that battle I was tender'd the command of that army which I declined out of delicacy to Genl. Houston 3d. in the Legislature of So. C. I defended Texas against the au- thority of my friend Gov McDuffie in his message adverse to her in- terest carried the Legislature nearly unamously [sic] with me as the adopter of Resolutions in opposition to that Message. -l I negociatid - at a moment of great peril a Loan of $400,000 with the late Bank U. S. when Texas had not a dollar in her Treasury. 5. I succeeded in procuring for Texas the means of marritime de- fence by contributing largely to the purchase of a War Steamer (Za- Yala) which after preventing a Mexican Blockade of the Ports of Texas & performing valuable Services at Yucantan obtaing a large pecuniay levy was allowed to sink from sheer neglect in the Port of Galveston wlwn a $100 Dollars would ha,·e stopped the Leak which caused her si11king. This thr·o the default of Genl. Houston from his malice to the l\ii,·v of Texas all those who were connected with it. 6. in 1~3~. I accepted a Commission to negotiate a Loan of 5 millions.
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