WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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To THE TEXAS CONGRESS 1
Executive Office, Columbia, 25th October, 1836.
Gentlemen, of the Senate and House of Representatives: Enclosed I have the honor of transmitting for your informa- tion, a letter from President Jackson 2 to General Santa Anna, also a letter to myself, with sundry other documents from Gen [era] l Santa Anna, designed for the congress of Texas. It will be perceived at once, how delicate my situation must be in submitting to your consideration the letter of Gen [era] l Jackson to myself, from the sacred in.iunction which he has placed upon it. The present crisis, in connexion with the important subject referred for your consideration and action, could alone authorize or induce the course. It does seem to me that sound policy is not at variance with the plan proposed in the letters referred to; and that the policy is safe there can be no doubt. Sam Houston 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 11-12. 2 See the Secret Jo1wnals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 11-14. There, will be found Jackson's letter to Houston, September 4, 1836, and Santa Anna's letter to Houston, October 24, 1836. Jackson's letter to Santa Anna, September 4, 1836, and Santa Anna's letter to Jackson, July 4, 1836, are printed in Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, III, 275-276, llnd 274-275, respectively.
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, Columbia, 26th Oct. 1836.
To the honorable The Senate Gentlemen: In accordance with your resolution of yesterday, requesting to be furnished with translations of all the documents, connected with the communication of Santa Anna, which have not heretofore been sent to you, I have the honor to transmit the entire series of communications accompanying this Message. 2 Those parts of the correspondence which have eminated from the late Government ad interim, are in the English language and those eminating from the President Santa Anna, in the Spanish. The difficulty of procuring them to be translated, the length of time which would be required to transcribe them and the scanti- ness of clerical aid in this department, have induced me to submit
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