My duties wiU permit me to remain in Louisville one week longer, and I hold myself responsible in every way for all I have ,vrillen or said in vindication of my country in my former publication, and in this card. T. Jefferson Chambers Louisville, Oct. 9th, 1836. P.S. Those papers that have published the calumnies of Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwait against Texas, and are situated at so great a distance as not to be in danger from the wrath of those pugnacious gentlemen, will do an injured and oppressed people justice, by publishing my answer, notwithstanding its length.
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New Orleans 10 Oct /36
Genl S F Austin My Dear Sir
I wrote you on Friday since then I have had a sitting with Breedlove and D ~·lieux agents for the contractors- I apprised them distinctly that I had nothing to do with the Govt-but would take and deliver to you any distinct proposition which they might think proper to make, defining in terms not to he misunderstood what they understood the compromise to entitle them to, and that they would consider the compromise binding if the govt Acceeded to those terms lo pay the 180.000$ Dr Mieux stated that the issue of Scrip in conformity with the compromise without the proviso introduced by the Cabinet, that is to say with liberty to locate at their own expense when they please, would be satisfactory but as few of the parties were here they could only make the proposition binding on those here and give an assurance of their belief that the others would concur- Dr Mieux will prepare the paper and address it to you, by me. As I have been denounced as a cracked brained old citizen, for apprising Burnet as an individual acquaintance of the impending danger of a total prostration of public credit, it is not proper for my name to appear in any public matter, but the fact that not a dolJar can now be had either on public or private credit of Texas will enable any one to judge whether I was or not cracked brained when I anticipated this result from the course pursued and did what as a Citizen I was bound to do;all in my power to avert it?
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