WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1854
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backs here, by tomorrow morning we shall go to business, and get done; but I see no hope of finishing the bill now. [Several Senators. Oh yes; we can take a vote.] If we can vote without any more discussion, I will suspend the
motion to adjourn, though I think it ought to be made. icongressional Globe, Appendix, 1853-1854, pp. 1190, 1193.
A REQUEST, ON JULY 31, 1854, FOR AN EARLY MEETING OF THE SENATE 1 With the leave of the Senator from Virginia, I wish to make a single remark. I am reluctant at any time to interfere with the ordinary course of business, but I rise to request the Senate, before they adjourn to-day, to pass an order to meet at half past ten o'clock to-morrow morning, for the purpose of affording me half an hour to make some explanations. This will not retard the business at all. If the Senators do not all choose to leave their committee rooms, and come to the Senate Chamber at that time, it will not be material; the reporters will be here, and I do not care about an audience. It is a matter of importance to me, and I trust the Senate will concede that courtesy. 1 Congressional Globe, Part III, 1st Sess., 33d Cong., 1853-1854, p. 2015.
AUGUST-DECEMBER, 1854
SPEECH ON THOMAS JEFFERSON GREEN, AUGUST l, 1854 1 Mr. President. I have no apology to make this morning for occupying the time of the Senate. I have to thank the members of the Senate for the courtesy extended me yesterday, of appoint- ing an earlier hour of meeting than usual for this morning, so as to afford me an opportunity to notice some recorded accusations and slanders against myself. I am reluctant, sir, at all times, to make myself an object of notice, or to connect with the business of the Senate myself, or what reputation I may have in life; but as I have been placed in public stations by my countrymen on various occasions, it was natural to suppose that individuals would have collisions with me, and that in the transaction of public duties the expectations of private individuals would frequently be disappointed. It seems, however, from what is now to be brought forward, that some, more anxious to traduce and slander me than others, have made me an object of peculiar vituperation. Placed as I have been where there was great commotion, where men of
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