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the counties have not yet been received and the majority [is] not
known. There is a close canvass between Burleson and Hunt for
vice president.49
Our war news is not very interesting. The Indians yet make dep-
redatory excursions upon the frontiers, but do little more than run
the horses off and much of that is done by whites on the credit of
the Indians.
We have had two campmeetings here within the last two weeks
one baptist and one methodist0 and another will take place on the
16th of next month at the baptist campground to be held by the
cumberland presbyterians. These meetings I hope are doing much
good in this country. Good order generally prevails at them much
more than might be supposed. The emigration to Texas has greatly
ceased or rather it is not so great as was anticipated, probably owing
to the news of Mexicans that go back there. Many of these are
entirely false and much exaggerated before they reach there. The
Mexicans have no chance to invade this country. If they even have
the disposition, they have enough to do at home. Texas has made
or commenced a treaty with the republic of Yucatan and is now
rendering her assistance by her navy.51 I am at a loss to tell in
what this will terminate. The Mexican general near the borders
of Texas has not troops sufficient to defend them from the Comanche
Indians without invading Texas. As I have informed you that I
hope my views of this life and the next are quite changed for the
better I will be glad to hear any thing you may wish or desire
to communicate, for I have need of advice and much of it. I have
choice in churches. I would be glad to live in the church in which
I have been educated; though I must confess that I believe there
are many good christians in others, but could I join the presbyterian
church I think I could enjoy this life better. I have objections to
the methodist church which I doubt I always shall possess though
I may be wrong. At least I see little difference in most persons pro-
fessing the name of Jesus Christ in truth. It would seem from my
present situation that it would be my interest in this world to unite
with the methodist church. The college is conducted entirely by
methodist influence and of course it would be desirable that its
49Houston received 7,915 votes to David G. Burnet's 3,619. Edward Burleson
defeated Memucan Hunt by 6,141 to 4,336 votes.-Siegel, A Political History of the
Texas Republic, 182.
SoSometime during 1841 T. O. Summers and J. W. Kenney held a campmeeting
at Rutersville.-Phelan, A History of Early Methodism in Texas, 198. Z. N. Morrell
writes that the second session of the Baptist Association was held at Clear Creek,
Fayette County, on October, 1841.-Morrell, Flowers and Fruits in the Wilderness
(Dallas, 1886), 183.
51The treaty with Yucatan was signed on September 17, 1841.-Siegel, A Political
History of the Texas Republic, 155.461
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