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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 182 1 1--1836
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON GREEN 1
Executive Office, C(?lumbia, Texas, 25th Oct., 1836.
Gen. Thomas J. Green, Texian Army
Sir :-1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor, under the date of the 19th inst., with its enclosures. In reply, I can only say that it was my opinion, that there was no constitution for Texas, until the final action of the people upon it, which was their vote in favor of its adoption. On my inauguration into office, I found you in possession of a seat in the House of Representatives, and as each house is to judge of the competency of its members, I can not, and will not, question the rectitude .of their course. As to the other subject contained in your letter, it will not be overlooked. Sam Houston, President. 1 /n reply of Gen. Thomas J. Green to the Sveech of General Sam Houston in the Sena.te of the United States, Aug11st 1, 1854, p. 12. Green stated that this letter was written in reply to a question put to Houston concerning his opinion of Green's eligibility to a seat in the Texas Congress while he at the same time held a position as brigadier general in the Texas army. There had been some question concerning the constitutionality of the hold- ing of two national positions at the same time.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON GREEN 1
Columbia, Texas, December 27, 1836.
Gen. Thomas J. Green: Sir :-Your favor of yesterday having been placed in my hands late this evening, I seize a moment to reply to it. In personal . conversation I did really suppose that I had satisfied you, that you had no reason to feel either ·mortification or disgrace; but it seems that you labor under a feeling of both. I truly regret that you should do either-nor does any cause exist why you should. I certainly apprised you from the first that I should nominate a senior and a junior Brigadier General, but would not nominate a Major-General but that I should keep vacant. ,vhen this was in contemplation I intended, as I did, to nominate you as senior Brigadier. Subsequently I heard that constitutional objections would be made to the confirmation of your appoint- ment. I frankly stated to you that such would be the case, as I had learned. I did not at first believe that there was any
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