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- Your cause has m~ cordial sympathy and with my best wishes for the freedom and independence of Texas I remain Sir With great <.:orn;icleration & respect your most obt Sert.- - .J. HA)IILTOX- r Aadressecl :] Col. l\Iirabcau Lamar Secy of War Texas [Endorsed:]. Letter from J. Hamilton Charleston 1836
JOHN S. JE)IISON TO LA?\IAR Livingston Sumter Co Ala June 22nd 1836
No. 388.
DEAR Srn:
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance }fr Williamson Wil- liams a young man who has resided in my family for the last ten months & whose deportment has gained the respect of the community. I think Sir your confidence in .Mr Williams cannot be misplaced. Any attention shown him will be thankfully acknowledged. We are all in good health & l\Ir Currys family were also a few days since. I am very anxious to move to that country but Jane is unwilling to go. I think if you will write to her & persuade her a little she would consent to move. I should be truly glad to hear from you with a full description of the country & whether it would be prudent to carry a family there at present. Write to Livingston care of Fontaine & Freeman Mobile. Your affect brotherinlaw JNO S JEl!ISON [Addressed:] Col. Mirabeau. B. Lamar Texas [Endorsed:] Jno S. Jemison Aalabama [sic] June 1836
No. 390. ANONY?\fOUS TO
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REPUBLIC OF TEXAS Sa\XTA-ANXA.-The following extract of a letter from an officer in the Texian navy to his relative in this city, gives a portraiture of Santa-Anna, calculated to mingle unqualified contempt with the ab- horrence, which the cruelties of that ·monster in human shape uni,·er- sally inspired. Gah-eston ba:v, june 26, Texian armed schooner Im·in<'ible. "I Itani seC'n Santa-Anna, and the rest of the :\fcxican prisoner;:, the most importa11t of whom is Almonte. Santa-Anna is n Yen ordinan· looking man, and the greatest coward the world ever produced. As ~l proof of this I will gh·e yon an instance that came undN my ow11 observation. He and his officer;: were sent on honrd of our Yc;:scl at Velasco, for snl'e keeping. He hntl not been with us owr a few days when thl' people became dissatisfied n11d sent for him. ,\,_ ;:onn ns lw was informer] of thi:::_. he judged our people by hi;: ow11. n11d thou~ht they wcrc goi11:r to butcher him. The wretch cx1·lni11H·d i11 Sp:111i,-l1- '"merc:y ! mercy! Oh go<l ! if they wish to kill nw, ll't t h1·111 c·un1(• 111hl
shoot me here- don't let them take me ou shore !. . We coultl not per:::unde him that his lift• wn;: ,-nfe.
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