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[mutilated] circumstances of confidence having been . [muti- lated] him if it may not increase, certainly cannot lessen the obligation J.B. L. [Endorsed:] J. B. Lynch April 13, 1840
No. 1779. JUAN N. SEGUIN TO LAMAR
[Translation from the Spanish] To His Excellency the Honorable President of the Republic. Austin.
San Antonio April 20, 1840.
MY DEAR GEN• .AND FRIEND.
The bearer of this will be the Gen. Lie. Antonio Canales, who goes to your City on business of importance; for which reason I take the liberty of recommending him to your consideration and friendship in order that you may assist him in everything which may be in your- power, for which favor I shall be grateful to you. With regard to the qualities which animate and distinguish the said Gen. Canales, I omit mentioning them to you because on dealing with him you will be satisfied that he is an individual in whom many [good qualities] are united. . With due respect I am your obedient friend and sincere servant. JUAN N. SEGUIN. [Addressed:] To His Excellency the Hon. President of the Republic M. B. Lamar. Austin, By the Hon. Gen. D. A. Canales. [Endorsed:] Juan N. Seguin, April 20, 1840. Introducing Gen. Canales No. 1780. JAMES PINCKNEY HENDERSON TO LAMAR San Augustine [Texas,] April 20th 1840 MY DEAR SIR l wrote you some days since and mentioned that I understood from Judge Branch that he would resign in the course of a few weeks I also at the same time mentioned to you the name of Genl George W. Terrel as a gentleman whom I thought would fill the Office with credit to himself and advantage to Texas. Allow me again to speak to you on this subject more fully than I did in my first letter. I have know Genl Terrel slightly for four or five years and have long known his character and standing as a Lawyer. He is recently from l\Iississippi where I :knew him first but he was formerly a citizen of Tennessee where I knew his character. He is a gentleman of sterling worth a good lawyer and strictly an honest man and I can assure you that he- would do credit to the bench of any state. He would not now be in Texas but he was unfortunate in Mississippi and has come here with the few negroes he has left to repair his fortune. His friends have endeavoured to induce him to make personal application to you for the appointment but he declines doing so for t_wo reasons the first is be-- cause he dislikes to urge his own pretentions and secondly because l\Ir Johnston a friend of his has expressed his desire to obtain the appointment but at the urgent eolici~atio1~ of _his friends he has said that he would accept the place prov1de<l it will please you to tender
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