[4303) [MORGAN to LAMAR]
[James l\forgan, Anahuac, to M. B. Lamar, October 11, 1836, concerning the contract for the schooner Flash, and other matters.]
[4304) [AUSTIN to WILLIAMS]
Colombia Oct. 12. 1836
S.M. Williams.
yours of 29 Augt, rec at Mr Perrys on the 1 instant. I was then just able to sit up from an attack of fever and am now barely able to crawl about a little- I read your letter with such feelings as a drowning man would seize a plank- Sam Williams you were wound around and rooted in my affections more than any man ever was or ever can be again- I wished and hoped to see or hear something that would convince me I was wrong or had too seriously viewed your acts etc since I left in 1833. you were to have closed the land business pending of the old colonies and attended to the last one-nothing was done or next to nothing, and I still have all that cursed trouble on my hands besides the censure and Gabble of discontent, which is of little consequence it is true but is not very pleasant-But all this is nothing, those cursed Monclova speculations and Contracts by which you have involved yourself and friends and country in evils which will last for years, and which you certainly never even drempt of and know nothing of now- W.H. Jack was the man who gave me the first account of that damn.cl transaction that I understood. That an attempt was made by you to get up an excitement in the Colony and to draw men from here under the pretext of defending the Governor, when in reality they were to be used as a part of the pay you and others were to be given on one of those contracts- I was led and bound to believe by Jack's statement; and also that you spared no kind of pains to precipitate the country into war immediately, an event which you must have known would have perpetuated my imprisonment indefinitely- you also must have known that all the odium of those things, would be cast on me by the envious and slanderous owing to our long friendship and relations. The fact is Williams that all those Monclova matters, I mean the speculations, and precipitating the country into war, were morally wrong, they have some very criminal and dreadfull features- I am too much
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