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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 2119. S. HIGHSMITH AND OTHERS TO LAMAR [Bastrop County, Texas, December 1841] The undersigned, your friends and fellow citizens of Bastrop County desirous of offering you some token of their regard on your retirement from office, have availed themselves of the earliest opportunity to in- vite you to partake with them a public dinner and ball in Bastrop at such time as may suit your convenience. The undersigned have been influenced by a two fold motive, in invit- ing you to their county- Their personal and individual regard for your private worth and estimable qaalities, would at all times, insure to you a warm reception; whenever you should come among them. But recent circumstances, have made them doubly solicitous that you should afford them an opportunity of expressing the strong and un- wavering confidence they have ever had, and still feel; in the purity of your public as well as private conduct. That a small party has found in the Cengress of the nation, who were willing to sacrifise your fair and well earned fame upon the altar of Faction, has recently been shown by the report and resolutions that were introduced into the House. But it should be n sufficient Satisfaction to you to know that the attempt has met with the most indignant rebuke from a very arge majority of the House of Representatives. I )ne of the objects of this invitation is to express by this evidence of our continued confidence in you, our strong and unqualified disappro- '.bation of the course pursued by that party in the House who voted for :a measure which, if it had Succeeded, would have entailed upon you jgnominy and disgrace. During the larger portion of your term of Office, we have been your neighbours-we have had daily intercourse with you-we have witnessed the ardour and zeal with which you have laboured for the welfare of our country: We have marked your untiring efforts to pro- test the exposed and suffering frontier-your strict impartiality in the administration of the laws-your patriotic efforts to extend our laws- over every portion .of the Republic--to negotiate a peace-and in short the singleness and disinterestedness of purpose in every act of your administration. And we know too the difficulties against which you have had to contend. We say all these things are known to us, for we haYe as said before been neighbours and eye witnesses, and know- ing them we feel a kind of duty which we owe to virtue and to in- jured worth; to show that w~ at least_have not been duped o~ deceiYed by thi malignant clamor raised agamst you by your enemies. You have clone well ancl we applaud you. You have acted honestly and independently and ~"~ hono~r yoll. for it. You have now- baffled your ,enemies and we reJ01ce at 1t. S HIGHSMITH BARTLETT SIMS N. BOYCE w. CAMERON S. A. J. HAYNIE Wl\L R. HANCOCK .JoNATIHN Bunu:soN' D. H. 1\-IcDoNALD
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