July 22 1836 to Sep 23 1836 - PTR, Vol 8

remained al my brother in laws lo obtain a few days rest and recruit my health- Dr Archer and Many others whose opinions I feel bound lo respect, insisted that I should be a candidate for President al Lhe seplember elections- Mr. W. H. Wharton was also of the number who requested it. My name is accordingly before the people- I have consented lo this for only one reason, which is that I believe I can be of material service in procuring the annexation of Texas lo the U.S. should the people here wish it, as I have no doubt they do. As is usual in such cases, there no doubt are many erronious reports in circulation-I have heard two- One that I am interested in the land speculations of Williams and others when they were at 1\lonclova- This is utterly false-I never have been, am not, and never will be interested in those speculations, directly nor indirectly, and no one in Texas is more opposed to them than I am, and this I say in the nature of a rule of Action, so far as one can be formed from my knowledge of the subject, for the fact is that I never have fully understood it, untill within a few days, and I do not know that I understand it all yet, for these events all took place in my absence. The other report is that I have been the means of saving General Santa Anna. That man was saved by Gen. Sam. Houston, as you know heller than I do, and was used by him lo procure the Armistice, or arrangement of 22d. April by which I am told orders were issued by Santa Anna to Filisola-he was also saved by the Cabinet of Texas subsequently, and treaties made with him. I disapprove of all these measures- The first I think was almost ruinous to Texas for it saved the balance of the Mexican Army, and the other I think was wrong in principle, and more so in the mode or manner of using Santa Anna If the principle was adopted at all of using Santa Anna for the public good of Texas, on the basis of saving his life, the only use that could or ought to have been made of him in my opinion was with the U.S. Govt. and not by an armistice or a treaty- An application from Santa Anna lo that Govt. to mediate between Mexico and Texas, on the basis of a recognition of the independence of the latter, in all probability would have led lo a correspondence on the subject between the U. S. Govt. and that of i\lcxico- If Santa Anna's friends or party had remained in power,

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