WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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The troops will only be detained a few days. So soon as Genl Gaines can send .reinforcements to this place they will be dis- charged! Let arms & ammunition, be brought. At least one hun- dred rounds is required. The Commander in Chief will be with the freemen of Texas; if they have to meet an enemy. All the men of Texas must have their arms in order! To secure liberty we must be watchful. Sam Houston 1 R11sk Papers (original), The University of Texas Library. Niles' Reg- iste1·, LI (1836), 67. Arkansas Gazette, September 27, 1836. Louisville (Ky.) Journal, September 27, 1836. This copy was made from the Rusk Papers. The newspaper copies are verbally the same as the Rusk copy, but they differ in paragraph division. EXTRACT TO A GENTLEMAN IN THE ARMYt You will learn that I have yielded to the wishes of my friends in allowing my name to be run for President. The crisis requires it or I would not have yielded. Duty, I hope, will not always re- quire this sacrifice of my repose and quiet. · HOUSTON I hereby ·certify the above to be a true copy. Wm. G. Cooke, Assistant Inspector General, Army of Texas. 1 Telegraph and Texas Registe1·, August 30, 1836.
TO DANIEL PARKER t
Nacogdoches Texas Sept 8th 1836.
To Mr. Daniel Parker 2 Sir You are hereby authorized and directed to erect a Fort or Block House, and place a Flat in the Trinity river above the Cumanche Crossing. And for that purpose you are authorized to employ the Services of twenty men, which may be detailed from any Command in the vicinity. You are also authorized to contract for Supplying them with provision &c. · Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 Photographic copy presented to The University of Texas Library by J. E. Taulman, 1430 Avenue G, Fort Worth, Texas. 2Daniel Parker was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, of pioneer stock. While he was a young child his father moved to Georgia, and there Daniel
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