(20701 [HOUSTON lo QUITMAN]
Nacogdoches, Texas, Feb. 12th, 1836. Dear Sir,-ll affords me peculiar pleasure lo acknowledge lhe reccipl of your lcLter by Mr. H. C. McNeill, and the present of a Polish yager which has once been employed in the cause of liberty. By this personal compliment I feel flattered. But the generous, liberal, and manly sentiments which you have expressed in behalf of Texas Lhe glorious slruggle in which she is engaged, command my gratitude, and awaken in me the association of other days connected wiLh Lhe land of my birth, when her sons were battling againsl their invaders in clefense o~ the rights of freemen. We will peril all for freedom, and I trusl thal the next Convention will declare Texas ''free, sovereign, and independent." Could your situation enable you to render to Texas and her cause an auxiliary aid so useful and imporlant to her prosperity as your presence and the force of your character and example, I can assure you lhat no circumstance would be hailed with more pleasure by every patriot whose plans of governm-::nt and policy have assigned to Texas the proud station of an independent people governed by a liberal Constitution and just laws.
[Sam Houston]
[To John A. Quitman]
[2071] [POE to SMITH]
Columbia 12th feby 1836
Sir
In the abscence of Orders from my Superior Officer I
deem it my duty to report myself Lo you for orders-
Acting in the Slaff & in the abscence of my Engineer Officers-I have the honor Lo furnish you with a plan of a work to be erected on Galveston Island-Should it meet the approbation of your Excellency-I shall awail further instructions on this subject from your Excellency-
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