WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1824-1836
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Sam is a vast rowcly. I fear he will make a peerless dog? Yet I like the child, for what he cannot get out of his way he will leap over it, and I dislike sneaks. Salute my friends all, and remember as I am now, I cannot long be in favor at Court. The Old Chief will always like me, and trust me truly-but-the War Department and me will differ. Eaton is destroying himself by retaining McKenney and Lewis, by keeping that Peters in the office. They are two bright links:.: in a chain of the most hellish corruption! Houston Mr. Jno H. Houston [Addressed]: John H. Houston Esq Washington City Genl Campbell [Postmarked] : Nashville T Aug 11 1 0riginal in possession of Mr. W. A. Philpott, Dallas, Texas. Photostatic copy in The University of Texas Library. 2 The men whom Houston mentions were connected with the Indian agency for Cherokees and Creeks, west of the Mississippi. See his articles signed Tah-lohn-tus-ky, Volume I, pp. 155-185.
To JOHN H. HousToN 1
Hot Springs A. T. 31st July 1833 My dear Houston, Long has been my silence, and many have been my wanderings since we parted. When most distant and most estranged in person, my vagrant heart would recur to scenes which I must always cherish,-those scenes in which you, and your dear wife, and "weans" bore a part. I am now a resident of another Government, and in a few days expect to return to Nacogdoches in Texas, where I now am located. I made an attempt to reach the City, and see you all, but was in a part of the country during the great freshet, in the West, and was water bound until it was too late to go and return to meet my engagements in Texas. But having some leisure I concluded to spend a while at this point. I have done so, I hope, with some advantage to my health,-my wound was sore, and some bones were working out of it, when I came here-the inflamation has left it, and the bones have escaped. The tette1· on my head seems cured entirely!. You want to know "what the Devil I am going to do in Texas"? Part, I will -tell you, and the balance you may Guess at. I will practice law, and with excellent prospects of success-I have
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