WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1853
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Give my regards to my friends and say to them if I live them, I intend a Lordly quarrel with more or less of Thine Houston.
N.B. to see them.
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1 Mille1· Pape1·s, Texas State Library. For Washington D. Miller, sec Volume II, 389. 2 The identification of the person to whom Houston referred is largely a guess, but it was probably either George T. Wood, or Thomas Jefferson Chambers. There were six or seven candidates on the Democratic ticket for the governor's office in 1853. The Whigs put out William B. Ochiltree. Two of the men running on the Democratic ticket withdrew in favor of E. M. Pease, but George T. Wood, Lemuel D. Evans, Thomas Jefferson Chambers and Jon W. Dancy refused to give up their chance for success. Especially was Chambers tenacious in his determination "to see the thing through," when friends tried to induce him to join M. T. Johnson and J. W. Henderson in throwing their influence to Pease (see issues of the Texas Stcite Gazette, from March to last of-June, 1853). The Democrats greatly feared that the vote of their party would be so badly divided that the Whig candidate would be elected. The Whig papers, in December, 1852, had placed Ochilti·ee in the race, but he declined on the ground that there was small chance for his success, but after such a large number of Democratic candidates appeared, he 1·econsidered, and made a very active canvass. See Ibid. Wood had served one term as governor (1847-1849), and was the defeated candidate for the office in 1849, 1853, and 1855. Chambers was a defeated candidate for the office in 1851, and 1853. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Platforms of Political PCll1·ties in Texas, pp. 33-34, 644. 3 Frank Caruthers, see Houston to Washington D. Miller, June 10, 1853, this volume. 4 See Houston to Washington D. Miller, June 30, 1853, this volume.
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To WASHINGTON D. MILLER 1
Huntsville, 13th Sept. 1853. My Dear Miller. I sincerely thank you for your letter, and regret to learn of your indisposition. I have in my time suffered much from the same disease. Get some Stramonium, or James- town leaves, simmer them over a fire in hogs lard, until you think it will be imbued with their qualities, and then, when a salve put it by, and use it frequently. Now as to the Ward matter, he never paid me, but $375. I will pay ten percent for collection and charge him interest, from the time it was collected,:? and upon this basis, please let 1ne know what he owes me! Call on Caruthers for the papers which he has. After again looking over the papers, it is possible that he
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