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WRITINGS OF S01 HousTON, 1857
To THE STATE BAPTIST CONVENTION, HUNTSVILLE, OCTOBER, 1857 1
REPORT OF INDIAN MISSIONS. Your committee on Indian Mis- sions have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report, that in the judgment of your committee, the only avail- able plan to accomplish anything with the Indians on our fron- tier, would be to recommend to the government to make an appropriation to erect suitable buildings and instruction schools under the supervision of such missionary as may be appointed by your Board, for that purpose, and to preach in the surounding country to the destitute. That this is an enterprise worthy of our prayful conside1;a- tion, will appear self-evidently clear by reference to the report of our Missionaries of last year. In that we see some five or six hundred children there at two stations under the age of 12 years old. Could these children be gathered into schools and their young minds raised from their present channel of degra- dation and shame, to the paths of virtue and knowledge, then might their parents and the whole nation be reached by the glo- rious results that eternity alone can fully develop. All to which is respectfully submitted. Sam Houston, Chairman. 1 Mrs. R. C. Burleson, Life and Writings of Rufus C. Bm·leson, 286-287.
To JOHN M. SWISHER 1
Huntsville, 11th November, 1857 My Dear Sir, At the first moment of leisure, I take pleasure in replying to your letter in relation to the claim of Mrs. Bond (late Mrs. Hinton). The facts are of record, and I can only give my opinion, as to .the justice of her claim generally. There never was an officer in any Government more harshly, or in my opinion, more unjustly treated than Captain Hinton 2 was. With- out an accusation, without a hearing, an investigation, or trial, as well as I recollect, he was dismissed the service. The Memo- rial of Captain Hinton was presented to Congress, as well as I now recollect, it was passed by, owjng to the press of business, and the great confusion, existing at that session at Austin. All that is left to me a citizen of Texas, and one feeling deeply in its honor, and welfare, is to say that I hope that the authori-
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