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WRITINGS OF SAl\-1 HOUSTON, 1849
As it is Sunday night, I will not write to you on any matters of business. My love to all. Ever thine Houston [Rubric] Margaret. P. S. Tell Sam, Nannie, and Maggy that I have preserved all the roses and chrysanthemums which they gave me. I will keep them. Thine Houston. [Addressed] : To Mrs. Sam Houston, Huntsville, Texas. Care of the Post Master. 1 Temple H. Morrow Collection of Houston Materials, Dallas, Texas. :Dr. Francis Moore was editor of the Telegravh and Texas Registe1· at this time. He was an anti-Houston man, but was intelligent and fairly moderate in his articles against Houston. SPEECH MADE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, DECEMBER 20, 1849, ON THE PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR 1 Resolved, That the Rev. Theobald Mathew be permitted to sit within the bar of the Senate during the period of his sojourn in Washington. The question being stated upon the resolution - Mr. Houston. Humble as I am, sir, I deem it just to myself, and respectful to the Senate, that I should assign my reasons for voting for this resolution. I entertain a regret as profound and sincere, I presume, as any gentleman upon this floor, that any question has arisen calculated to excite feelings not the most felicitous to harmony and to good understanding in this body. I cannot view this resolution as some honorable gentlemen do; I cannot regard it, sir, as any test of merit beyond what the great Apostle of Temperance has manifested to the world by his advent to this country. If I understood it, sir, it is a sentiment responsive to the popular expression manifested in different portions of the country, and certainly without any political·intentions, so far as we have a right to judge. It has been demanded by gentlemen; what evidence have we that Father Mathew may not, on some future occasion, light the torch of discord in the South? The fact, sir, that he has refused to join the agitators of the North, and that he has declined to
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