The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume V

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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY

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[Addressed:] His Excellency Mirabeau B Lamar President of Texas .Austin Texas [Endorsed:] Shelby W. Lamar Charleston Illinois December 14th 1840 No. 1957. PETER HANSBROUGH BELL TO LAMAR City of Austin Dec. 15th 18-10 °DR. GENERAL It is always with delicacy that I approach men occupying high places .-and that feeling is increased, now that men and communities, seem disposed in the fluctuations of Party and from the appeals of Interest, to surrender every moral obligation and every high quality which really .makes the man to purposes of gain and self-aggrandizement. But al- together aside from motives of Jnterest (which I disclaim as an honest .man) I yield to the more generous impulse of friendship to say to you leaving the Republic as you do in a condition of health delicate and .precarious, that no one regrets more than myself the necessity which induces your absence, nor will greet with more pleasure your safe re- turn. It is in consideration of past associations strengthe[ne]d and -<!Onfirmed by the events of the last two years that I feel myself con- strained to declare to you Sir-that in adverse of [or] prosperous Cir- .cumstances-with a bright political horizon, or one clouded and dimed .by the convulsions of Party struggling for Supremacy-you will so long as you {!ontinue to pursue a course characteristic of you for the past five years find in an humble Texas friend of thirty-six a friendship for you as unchangeing as it is now unchanged. I have troubled thus much General because I know that in all the or- dinary outward demonstrations of regard to you in person I have been .seemingly derelict I have the honor to be Your friend & Svnt P. HANSBROUGH BELL [Addressed:] To/ Genl. Mirabeau B. Lamar Coln Cazneau [Endorsed:] P. H. Bell, Austin, Deer 15th 1840

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No. 1958. A. J. FOWLER TO LAMAR

Clarksville Red River County Deer. 20th 1840

"To His Excellency MmonEAU B LAl\[AR President of the Republic of Texas ·nn Srn.

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Some time since I dispatched a letter to you, informing your Ex- .cellency of the murder of one of our citizens Aaron C. Jow~tt by ?De Adam Bedy, with a discription of the person of ~he latter, w_1th a view that you might offer the Hepublic's reward for his arrest which I hope _your 'Excellency has done ere this . . It now becomes my painful duty of mformmg your Excellency of another like outraO'e upon our community. On the night of°the 19th Inst in this place 0~1~ George W_McCarley -took the life of one William Johnson (both c1tizens of this county)

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