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with the Mormon War of 1857-1858. See H. H. Bancroft, H1·story oj Utah, 500, 526-27, 575; also Dictionary of America,~ Biography, IV, 592-593. °For John Wilkins Whitfield see note No. 8, under "On the Increase of the Army, and the Indian Policy of the Government," January 29, 31, 1855, in this volume. REMARKS CONCERNING THE PAMPHLET OF THOMAS JEFFERSON GREEN 1 February 15, 1855 I ask the i.manimous consent of the Senate to make a personal explanation. I find laid upon my desk a pamphlet emanating, as it appears, from a certain Thomas J. Green. I believe each Senator has received a copy for himself. Had it been carried to them alone, I might not have noticed it; but, as it has been obtruded upon my personal notice, I think it proper to make a very few remarks upon it. There was a fellow of that name in Texas, whose no- toriety has not yet died away from the recollection of Texans. I have a right to infer that it is the same individual. If it be so, it is he that an honest member from South Carolina once pointed out as the circulator of a calumny against me, which be- came public, and which found its way into the newspapers; but this Thomas Jefferson Green, of Texas, was the author; and I may reasonably conclude that of this pamphlet he is also the author. At the last session it became my duty to criticise one of his books in the library of Congress, which was replete with calumnies. One statement certainly had the credit of authen- ticity; I refer to that which relates to the fraternity of Texas as a community. That I concede to be true; but that is about the only truth in his four hundred pages. In the pamphlet before me, I find a statement that presented itself, accidentally, on opening its pages, to which I will call the attention of the distinguished Senator from Michigan, [Mr. Cass,] who, I am happy to see, is in his seat. But for this accidental discovery of this passage, I should not have honored my slanderer by noticing his productions. I will read the passage to which I refer: "Yet, I have been told that when he, Houston, was sent on to Ashland as one of the Senate's committee with the remains of that lamented patriot, [Mr. Clay,] that he, Houston, in the pres- ence of the people of Kentucky, stooped and kissed the coffin of the illustrious dead, with a sanctimonious phiz which would have
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