WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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the Elections are to be made by the Judges of the different p1~e- cincts to the speaker of the House of Representatives. Done at Columbia this seventh day of Novem- SEAL ber A. D. 1836 And of the Independence of said Republic the first Sam Houston 1 Reco1·d Book of Documents imder the Great Seal, Department of State, No. 37, pp. 1-2, Texas State Library.
TO THE TEXAS SENATEL
Executive Department, Columbia, 8th Nov. 1836.
To the Honorable The Senate Gentlemen, The friendship and alliance of many of our border Tribes of Indians will be of the utmost importance to this Govern- ment; keeping them tranquil and pacific, and if need shall re- quire it, affording us useful auxiliaries. Having received satisfactory information, that large bodies of these people are desirous of forming treaties of peace and inter- course with us and that they have assembled on the banks of the River Trinity, near its three forks, I cannot too forcibly recom- mend the adoption of any means which will attach them to us, nor too seriously impress upon you the policy of drawing them to us by cords of friendship by means of T·reaties and of Commerce. With those views I have the honor to nominate to your consid- eration as Commissioners to treat with the several Tribes of Indians on our Northern and Western frontier who are not now in Treaty, and to conclude articles of Peace, friendship and in- tercourse with them: Nathaniel Robins 2 and John M. Dor,3 and Hayden S. Arnold 4 to the duties of Secretary to said Commis- sioners. These are all gentlemen to whom trusts will be ju- diciously confided and should you approve these nominations commissions will immediately issue. Sam Houston I"Messages of the Presidents," Cong1·essional Pape1·s (1836), Texas State Library. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, 19-20. ::see Houston to Nathaniel Robbins, March 13, 1836. sFor Houston's estimate of John M. Dor, see Houston to the Texas Sen- ate, November 12, 1836; also, Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 22.
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