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PAGE To Mrs. Houston, February 9, 1849, concerning personal matters..__ 74 Remarks, February 15, 1849, on the bill granting a pension to Mrs. Dix: he argues tha~ she should be paid, although her husband did not die in actual service,______ ----·---- 75 MARCH, 1849 Address to Constituents, March 2, 1849, concerning his action in the United States Senate: a justification of his vote on the Oregon bill; a refutation of John C. Calhoun's speech at Charleston, which accused Houston of having betrayed the South by this vote; a review of Calhoun's career; The Crisis of 1835 showed Calhoun's disunion opinions ______________ ······--·---··-·---····· 78 Remarks, March 3, 1849, on the proposition to extend the laws ofl the United States over California and New Mexico; argues that order and sanity must prevail__________________ 89 Remarks, March 3, 1849, on the bill for the relief of Elizabeth S. Cobbs: the pension should be paid, although her husband did not fall in battle - ··----- ___ ____ ___ 91 MAY, 1849-DECEMBER, 1849 To Thomas M. Bagby, May 7, 1849; asks that his portrait be sent to him at Washington_________·-----·-------- 92 To H. Yoakum, William Lehr, and G. W. Rogers, May 10, 1849; accepts an invitation to address the Sons of Temperance on July 4·-·---····· 93 To Ashbel Smith, May 31, 1849, a friendly letter; pays a high compli- ment to Hamilton Stuart.______________ ____ 94 To Mrs. Houston, July 9, 1849, a family letter____··--·------·------ 95 To James Gadsden, September 20, 1849, an answer to a letter from Gadsden condemning Houston, and championing the actions and career of Calhoun: discusses Houston's addrC'ss to his constituents, March 2, 1849; Houston's lack of a classic education; a comparison of the nullifiers of the South with the Whigs; Calhoun and the abolitionists; the Southern Address; the Southern Convention, the machine to devise ways and means for secession; Houston's vote on the Oregon bill; Houston's opinion of the Missouri Compromise- a part of the Texas constitution; his relation to the Wilmot Proviso; Congress's lack of authority to legislate on slavery_____.___ To Nahum Capen, November 4, 1849; thanks Capen for the gift of a book 95 107 To Mrs. Houston, November 18, 1849, a family letter·-------··------ 108 Speech, December 20, 1849, on the privilege of the floor: the occasion was a request that Theobald Matthew, a Catholic priest, be allowed to sit within the bar of the Senate during' a visit to Washington. The debate involved the slavery question·-·-·------·-·--·· ____ 109 A Resolution, December 27, 1849, concerning the submission to the Senate of certain correspondence between the government of the United States and the military authority of Santa Fe______ 112
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