John Durst to Stephen F Austin, 11-24-1829 John Durst Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Debbie Liles Initial TEI Formatting Stephen Mues Programmatic and Manual TEI P5 Compliance Ben W. Brumfield Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers 08-16-2010 Stephen F Austin Nacogdoches, Texas Unknown Eugene Barker, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919: The Austin Papers, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 3 vols., Vol 1, Part 2, pp. 290 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-24-1829 Programmatic restructuring and manual clean-up to comply with TEI P5 2.3.0 Restructured to meet TEI P5 standards Digital creation of XML file

Will follow procedure advised by Austin concerning Guerrero's emancipation decree. Character of the local authorities.

Nacogdochs. Novr 24 de 1829

S. F. Austin Esqr

Dear Sir I receivd yours of the 17th Instant and am very thankful to you for the troble you have taken in the complyence of my request, it has aforded Great Satisfaction to our friends, and I am confident that the corse indicated will unanimosley be adopted to a man; you wish to Know what the Ayuntamto. of this place will do it is hard telling so farr they have agreed to cooparate with My vews on that subject, but there [is] no Knowing what turn they may take they are a Boddy without souls and subjects easy worked on by intrigue the Militery comte,. of this place has a considerable influence over them and is much of a scoundrel, I have this day been credibly informd that he has long since conceivd the Plan of efecting a revolution amonst the Slaves against their Masters he has even told me previos to this that he was astonished it did nott take place, but Little did I suspect him Capable of inducing them What are we to do with such a rascal, I hope el Sor. Padilla will soon be on and put things to wright

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