TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
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No. 1794. ANTONIO CANALES TO LAMAR
To His Excellency Genl. :i\f. B. LAl\UR, ) President of the Republic of Texas. ) Sm.
City of Austin, April 29th 1840.
The necessity of procuring as soon as possible means of subsistance for the Federal Army, nnd of organizing the same, obliges me to com- municate to your Excellency that my departure will be on the 2d of May. The high favours that your Excellency has dispensed me, and the generous reception that has been extended as well to myself as to the troops under my command on entering into the territory of this Re- public, shall ne,·er be effaced from the hearts of the mexicans of the Frontier of the North, holding them as a new proof of the interest that your Excellency has always manifested for our happiness and liberty. Very soon, when the ties that now unite us to proud Mexico shall have been torn asunder, we shall have [oc]casion to prove to your Ex- cellency and to all [the in]habitants of this Republic, that those of that of [the] Rio Bravo Know how to appreciate and comply f with 1 the duties imposed by gratitude. In the mean time your Excellency can command me at San Patricio where I shall direct my course touching Houston and Galveston on the way, it being indispensable that I should personally procure cloth- ing and provisions for the Army. With the highest respect and regard I am your Excellency's most obedient & humble servant to command. ANTO.' CANALES Commander in chief of Federal army [Endorsed:] Gen Canales, Com Fed Army April 29, 1840 No. 1797. EMMELINE C.·HANDY BROWN TO LAMAR [Philadelphia, April? 18401 :Mm.A.BEAU LAMAR Esq. RESPECTED Srn I have taken the liberty of Addressing you several times, but in the full assurance and beleif that you have never recieved any of my letters, I venture again to trouble you- l\Iy object in writing now.,. is to request the favor of you, either to write to, or speak with Messrs Lusk Levering and Herndon on the subject of restoring My Brother's servant man-James Robinson, to his liberty-or in other words to send him to his native land-and kindred- You perhaps may not be aware that he was only an indented Servant. But such was the fact, and his term of Sen,iture must have expired by this time- Independently of any and e,·ery other consideration I have had since the first intelligence of my afflicting bereavement, the most o~er wea1;1- incr desire to see this Boy, he followed my Beloved Brother-m all his fo;tunes, and no doubt-was his attendant, in his last moments-you will not be surprized then at the anxiety I express- A word from you as I have said in a former letter would be o-mnipo-
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