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length. The proposal about the script seems to me fair; but I have not time to look at it again before writing. My trial in court is not thro, but is in the situation as when I wrote you last. The fraud committee, had been at work for some days, or weeks, and I had not looked at the testimony until yesterday, and to- day-hence I have been very busy. I looked over it and fo[und] with all the inclination which some w [it] nesses had to lie, they could show nothi [ng] wrong, either with the President, Secy of War, or even the "Man of broken fortune, and blasted reputa- tion," all will be right, you may rest easy! Mr. Noland is still here, and I will calculate to furnish the main inducement out of my portion, for him, if we succeed, and he may risk as well as me! I have told him that my business was to watch, and secure the interest of the Grantees! but he does not know what I am to get. Sam Houston Mr. Jas Prentiss P. S. Write soon & often [Addressed]: To Mr. James Prentiss New York N. Y. Free P. Stephens M C Mail
[ Endorsed] : Gen! Saml Houston 17 June 1832 1 James Prentiss Lette1·s, The University of Texas Library.
2 Samuel Price Carson (January 11, 1798-November 2, 1840), lawyer, politician, was born in North Carolina, and was trained to follow in the footsteps of his planter father, but as a very young man elected for him- ~elf the career of a politician. After a term in the State Senate he was elected Congressman and served five years. Bad health induced him to go west in 1834, settling first in Mississippi. He soon "caught the Texas fever" and moved on to make his home in that new territory. He became the representative of his district (Red River district) in the Texas constitu- tional convention of 1836, and later in the same year was a commissioner to Washington, D.C., to intercede for the recognition of the independence of Texas by the United States. Ill health sent him to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the medicinal effects of the waters, but he died there and is buried in the Hot Springs Cemetery. See B-iog·ra-phical Direc.tory of the American Congress, 791. Texas Historical Qua1·tcrly, VIII, 263-266. Asbury Pape1·s (MSS), The University of Texas Library. 3 See note under John A. Wharton to Houston, June 16, 1832. To JAMES PRENTISS 1 Washington 20th June 1832 My dear Sir, Your favor of the 15th Inst has just come to hand, and for the first time, I have just learned that any move- ment has been made in Texas in favor of St. Ana. I have been
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