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PAPEHS 01~ )IinABEAu Bt:ONAI'ARTE LA:'11.\R
I !-hall write to yon about the proposition of the lands and shall only say that now if I can . . [mutilated] to secure the money I will ~end the proposition In regard to the decrees I will only say that in one or two months at least I will send out notices through the Gazettes of Orleans for from there they will receive notices every clay from Vera Cruz, Tampico or )Iatamoras. I doubt much that there are any in N"ac:ogdoches. I will sec and speak of this matter with pleasm:e. . Give my mother arid rei;;pects to your brothers and to )Ir. Ruiz and to your rmutilated] Your friend S F AUSTIN [Rubric] P. S. I forgot to say that you can come with the mules and horses. l think you can sell the first for money although this is an article which is very scarce and there is not certain market for anything in money. S. F. A. [ Ade.I ressed : l Sor Dn Jose Antio. Navaro, Bejar No. 85. ADDRESS AT A PUBLIC EXAl\IINATION OF A GIRL'S SCHOOL. LA!\1:AR [Sparta? Georgia? 182- ?] I do not rise my young friends for the purpose of le,·ying a tax upon your time or patience. I have no sage reflections to offer, and no flowers of rhetoric to gratify fancy. Without wisdom to enlighten, and without genius delight, I rise for the simple purpose of paying a just compli- ment to your performances on this occasion. I should certainly do l'iolence to my own feelings and injustice to your merits, if I were to withhold the tribute due to your diligence and assiduity, and to your laudable & successful efforts for the rapid improvement of your minds. It has been my lot to witness many exhibitions of this character; but seldom or never any, where the whole school acquitted themseh-es in a manner ,;o flattc-ring to themsel\'eR and so gratifying to the public. True it is that some of you seem to have prop;ressed beyond others; some seem to have moved with a greater, some with u less celerity; but this difference may he the result of accidental causes, rather than any superiority of intilect or application. I cannot for a moment insinuate that any have clone badly, because some may possibly ha\'e <lone better than others. All have clone well- all ha,·e acquitted themseh·es with credit to themselves and honor to the institution. Indeed your ·merits are so closely connected; so very nearly equal that it woul<l he invidious in me to attempt to draw any distinction between you. Look upon the rich colors of the prisim. We see the red, the blue, the \'iolet, yet nll so harmoniously mingled, that it is impossible to sny where the one begins or the other emls. Just so with your merits. Your n•~pectiYe elaims to approbation & applause nre so pleusingly hle111lNl- ~o c-on- nectecl by the ic;oftne,;s of lights nnd shnclows that it i~ impo~~ihle to draw a just line of demnrc:ation bet.ween you. \\'ho <·1111 say that this or that pupil shed the brightest lustre in this consh•llntion or ta~te & genius? · Let me not then attempt any min & in\'iclious discriminations; but in the la11guage of truth & sincerity permit me to express to you nil the high
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