WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1831-1832
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You will plrnse answer this letter forthwith! Be so kind as to salute Mrs. Prentiss with my friends. Sam Houston Mr. James Prentiss. P. S. My objects at Nashville could be attended to without my presence, by writing to a friend!
[Addressed] : Mr. James Prentiss [Endorsed]: Saml Houstons letter
New York 8 April 1832.
1 James Prentiss Letters, The University of Texas Library. This letter is a reply to the following letter from Prentiss:
"New York, 5th Apr. 1832.
"Dear Sir "I am yet without news from Mexico since I saw you-The Packet is hourly expected with important intelligence that may induce a decision of my friends that will require your sudden departure on the business of which we lately conversed--Please inform me on rect of this if you are still inclined to embrace the object, and how soon you can come here-when advised, and how long you must be detained on your way to the West-It is probable that you may be wanted to go with great dispatch. Please also give me any intelligence you may have gained at Washington on the subject of your project-J. P." (From the James Prentiss Letters, The University of Texas Library.) 2 The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. 3/bicl. 4 Richard Pearse (Pearce) was born in Vermont. He did secure the appointment as consul at Matamoras, but was superseded because he was not loyal to party politics. He finally secured a grant of land near Mata- moras and established a ranch and lived on it for a number of years. When Benjamin Lundy made his trip through Texas in 1834, he became acquainted with Pearse. Lundy says that he and Pearse were kindred spirits, and that Pearse had the same views of negro slavery that he had. See The Life, Travels ancl Opinions of Benjamin Lundy, 151-155.
HOUSTON BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1
CASE OF SAMUEL HOUSTON.
In the House of Representatives, April 18, 1832.
On motion of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia, Ordered, That the letter of William Stanbery/ the interrogatories propounded by the Spealu:r to Samuel Houston, and his answers thereto, be p_rinted for the use of the House.
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