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Henderson. He was a member of the Committee on Resolutions and helped to draw up the committee's draft of reports, which was read before the convention on June 11. For an excellent and highly documented article on the proceedings of this Southern, or Nashville Convention, see Dallas Tabor Herndon, "The Nashville Convention of 1850," in Alabama. Pol11tech11ic lnst-itute Histo1·ical Pa7>e1·s (1905), II, 103-137. This article gives a list of all the delegates to the convention. See, also, Election 1·et11n1s f 01· the various Te:r:a.s Cong1·essional Districts, Texas State Library. 3 lt was the statements contained in this paragl'aph that seemed to stir the ire of General Daniel Wallace, a representative from South Carolina, for when he learned of the speech, he immediately wrote to Houston, demanding that a copy of the speech be sent to him. Houston answered within an hour. (See to D. Wallace, August 14, 1850, succeeding document in this volume.) It was General Daniel Wallace who "just happened to be passing down the Mississippi 1·iver," and stopped off and made a speech at Jackson. Houston insinuates that Wallace. was Calhoun's agent, sent to influence the people of Mississippi to call a Southern convention. Both the South Carolina and the Mississippi senators, as well as the representatives from both states, resented this implication, and bad feeling against Houston contin,ued to grow until Wallace wrote a bitter and scurrilous attack on Houston and had it published in the Southe1-ii Press (Washington, D.C.), August 23, 1850. In this long article he published both his own and Houston's note of August 14. He reviewed all the controversial issues of Houston's life, with drastic comments thereon. On September 9, 1850, Houston replied to Wallace's attack (See the speech in this volume.) and laid bare, in detail, the events of his public life to which Wallace had referred; but he ignored the attack on his private life-his separation from Eliza Allen, etc.
To D. w ALLAcE 1
Senate Chamber, 14th August, 1850. Sir:-I have just received your note of this morning by Mr. Butler. In reply, I can assure you that I did not use your name, nor the name of Mr. Calhoun, nor the name of any gentleman, with disrespect, in the debate of yesterday. Not having received the notes of my remarks from the reporter, I cannot furnish you with a statement of them at this time, but so soon as they are published, I will be happy to comply with your request. Sam Houston. Hon. D [aniel] Wallace 1 ln a letter to the Sou.the1·n Press, dated August 15, 1850, Wallace replied to this letter. A copy of his communication appears in The T,·.rns Mo1w- mcmt, September 15, 1850.
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