WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
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With a total disregard to personal preference, I have selected such persons to associate with myself in the administration of the Government, whose talents I think best suited to the further- ance of the interests of the country. As my constitutional ad- visers, I have respectfully to request you, the confirmation of the several nominations. Should any one of them be rejected I should feel myself at a loss where, or by whom to supply his place. And as I am held responsible to the people for the administration of the Govern- ment, you will readily admit that I have felt and must feel a lively interest in knowing who are to co-operate with me in the discharge of my official duties. Sam Houston. 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec,·et Jom-nctls of the Senate, Revublic of Texas, 1886-1845, 15-16. 2 Samuel Rhoads Fisher came to Texas from Philadelphia in 1831. He settled at Matagorda and represented that municipality in the Consulta- tion, and later in the Convention at Washington in 1836. He was one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and was on the com- mittee to draw up the Texan Constitution. Houston appointed him the first Secretary of the Navy of the Republic. He died at his home in Matagorda in 1839. See the Southwestern Historical Qua,·terly, XXVIII, 27; Wortham, Histo,"11 of Texas, III, 224, 374; E. W. Winkler, Sec,·et Journctls of the Senate, Revublic of Texas, 1896-1845, 15, 17, 26, 73-74, 80-83, 85, 89-92. S. H. Dixon, The Men Who Made Texas Free.
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TO THOMAS TOBY AND BROTHER 1
Columbia Texas, 26th Oct. 1836.
Messrs. T. Toby & brother Gent. You will find enclosed a Draft drawn in my favor for the benefit of the drawer, upon Messrs. F. Frey & Co. of your City for one hundred and twenty dollars, which you will please present for payment and pass the amount of the same to my credit when received- ! am desirous to aid the drawer, who is a volunteer in our cause- When you notify me of the receipt of that amount I wi.ll disburse it here for his benefit- Sam Houston [Addressed]: Messrs. T. Toby & brother New Orleans- [ Endorsed] : 1836 Sam!. 'Houston President- Dated 26th October Recd. 5th Feby Ansd 1 Toby Letters, Archives of the Texas State Library.
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