not rele:ised my efforts to forward on troops even under the present favorable aspect of our affairs. 1 shall expect to he advised Ly you as to the propriety of continuing these effor~s or sloppi1~g them. I shall also look forward lo a letter from you with greal a11x1el y. I cannot with hold the expression of my apprehension that a return to Texas during the present summer would prove fatal Lo you under the debility consequent upon your sufferings from your wound. I conversed with a Physician yesterday in Nashville who concured with me in the opinion that your best course would be to go to the White Sulfor Springs in Va. as the waters were unexampled for the restoration of heallh generally & for purifying the blood & healing the flesh, or rendering the Body in a condition that a wound will heal of itself. It is due to yourself that you should attend to your health and it is also due to your country & your friends. My own health demands attention and indeed Houston it is doubtful whether the greatest care can restore me. I shaH try the Virginia Springs this season & if consistant with your view of duty you could meet me there nothing could give me so much pleasure. J feel confident that a summer season there would renovate you & render you capable of pressing your duty to your country with an energy which you can not do in your present condition. God bless Genl. Sam Houston.
Your Friend Sam P. Carson
(333l] (CATRON to JACKSON]
Nashville, June 8, 1836. My dear Sir: Permit me to congratulate you on the prospect that the concluding year of your Administration is to be prosperous. The Indian disturbances wiU afford the occasion for the removal of this populatipn beyond the M'pi, including the Cherokees I hope. And our relations with Texas, resting on our great Slave and Indian border, may be so settled as Lo leave no further cause of apprehension from the poor Mexicans, or the (muc~1 to be d!eaded) English. The savage barbarities of murdering Fanm_ng and his core, after a capitulation, has so enraged the people of tins country, that they were raising men openly to fight St. Anna. Had Houston's army not conquered him, Tennessee, Missi, and Louisiana would, within the next nine months. I heard from Houston this morning. He wiU still at N. orleans. The chances are he will not die of his wound. The craven Mexicans lay down their arms
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