WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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to you the Originals belonging to the files of my office. These I intend to recall to their appropriate place and supply you with authenticated copies. This method will be the most speedy and best adapted to hasten your action upon those interesting subjects now under your consideration ; and I trust that therefore, a literal com- pliance with your resolution, will be dispensed with in this in- stance, as the defect arises from absolute necessity. Sam Houston. 1 Secret Jou1·nc£ls of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 1st Cong., 1st Sess, pp. 14-15, E. W. Winkl·er (Editor). 2 In a footnote, the editor of the Secret Journal says: "The communica- tions accompanying this message were not enumerated, so there is no way certainly to identify them. However, the question submitted to the Senate v,as, 'Shall Santa Anna be released?' so the following documents were prob- ably among them: I. Orders from General Santa Anna to General Filisola, three in number, dated April 22, 1836. Printed in Telegraph and Texas Register, September 6, 1836. II. Letter from Santa Anna to General Fili- sola, transmitting a copy of the treaty of May 14, 1836. Printed in Tele- urapha and Texcts Register, August 22, 1836. III. General Filisola's ratifi- cation of the treaty of May 14, 1836, dated May 26, 1836. Printed in Yoakum, II, 529. IV. Letter from Santa Anna to President Burnet, dated June 9, 1836, protesting against the non-fulfillment of treaty stipu- lations and his retention as a prisoner. Printed in Telegraph, October 4, 1836. V. Letter . from President Burnet to Santa Anna, dated June 10, 1836, replying to Santa Anna's protest. Printed in Telegraph, October 4, 1836."
TO THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Columbia, 26 Oct. 1836.
To the Honorable the Senate Gentlemen: I take pleasure in submitting to your considera- tion and action the following named gentlemen, whom I desire may fill the several Departments of the Government to which they are respectively ·assigned- Stephen F. Austin Henry Smith Thomas J. Rusk S. Rhoades Fisher Sec[retar]y of State Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of War Secretary of the Navy~ Your honorable body must be 1vell aware that in a country situated as ours is, the Executive head of the Government will have much difficulty in selecting those whose qualifications are precisely adapted to every important station.
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