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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
his cabinet are here, All are expecting much vituperative crimi-
nation and recrimination. What the result is to be he who rules
the destinies of this world alone can tell. Well might the Philos-
opher, the Patriot and the Phylanthrophist, mourn to see this
promising country this little Republic quit rising from its cradle
with the most flatering prospects of human wealth of human
freedom and hapiness all jeapardized and over shadowed by the
statesmen and ambitious caprice of a few men; Mine is how-
ever a nuteral position, I therefore give no opinion Yet I am
unpleasantly situated, all my official duties are with the executive
while I am living with Love, I have most earnestly endeavoured
to be a mediator between the contending parties whither I shall
[sic] have or shall be able to effect any good, I have the grati-
fication to say so for I have been able to retain the good feelings
of all parties and I believe the entire confidence of all. There
are about 500 volunteers here from the United States, anxious
to march against Mexico. The great contest now between the
President and those who are opposed to him is that the oppo-
sition wish to make war against Mexico take all their frontier
towns untill Mexico acknowledges the independence of Texas
while the President is for pursuing a more cautious course by
acting upon the defensive. Nine tenths of the population are
anxious to become annexed to the United States, if they could
effectuate this object I have no doubt but in a few years Texas
would become the most wealthy and desirable part of the nation
no man can come here and fail to make a comfortable living if
he exercises prudence industry and economy. I will give you
an example or two, Taylor White moved here nineteen years
ago his whole fortune was three cows and calves two small poneys
a wife and three children, he now owns about 40,000 acres of
land upwards of 90 negroes about thirty thousand head of cattle,
has sixty thousand dollars in specie deposited in new orleans,
marked and branded thirty seven hundred calves last spring, and
sold last fall in new orleans 11 hundred steers weighing about
1000 lbs each which he says cost him not more than 75 cents
a head to drive them to market [sic] orleans and what is
extraordinary he cannot read or write and has made his fortune
raising stock alone Cave Caspin [?] who was broke up entirely
six years ago by the war now owns upward of 12 hundred head
of cattle, many very many men here own from one to ten thou-
sand head of cattle. You can raise with the same ease and
without any cost an., equal quantity of horses mules, and sheep.
Robert Mills came here 16 years ago with nothing he is said
to be worth five hundred thousand dollars made by raising cotton
and sugar. Morgan A. Smith came to this country five years
ago from the city of new york he told me last fall that he had
sold about a hundred thousand dollars worth of good [s] a year488
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940, periodical, 1940; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101111/m1/524/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.