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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1837
Those who expect the admiration of mankind, and the applause of after ages, can never fail to cherish a feeling so congenial to the descendants of those who struggled in the immortal revolu- tion of "76." Let such feelings animate the army of Texas, and their fame will be eternal. COMRADES: I salute you. Sam Houston. 1 Tclegra7>h a.nd Tcxcu; Register, June 3, 1837. Niles' Register (1837), Vol. 52, p. 262. 2 No doubt a reference to the murder of Colonel Henry Teal, for an ac- count of which see Brown, Histo1·y of Texas, II, 135-137.
To ANNA RAGUET 1
City of Houston, 20th May, 1837. It is past midnight. The toils of the day have passed by, and all the recollections of friendship and affection recur. The kind remembrance of my excellent friend is the first which claims my attention, and so kindly endears to me the recollections of other days-"Sacred to Memory." You have been to New Orleans, and, bye the bye, I have heard much, and, as usual, admire everything. You were the Belle of the City, and this was so much glory for Texas. You claimed half the glories of the Victory of San Jacinto. I concede them to you! Will you in return share with me your triumphs in the City of New Orleans? If you will I shall be well requited! You kindly say to me that you were waited upon by "your beautiful Miss Barker, and I was much pleased with her." I thank you for this, for if I am faulty not in my recollection, I wrote to you while I supposed you in Philadelphia "that if she shou'd arrive there I wou'd be glad that you wou'd see her." I did this because when I saw her she presented to me a beautiful image so much resembling Miss Raguet that really I thought the world was compelled to admire and wish to see her. Since then I have sent to her a trifling evidence of respect, which I dare not offer to Miss Anna, because she has not received from me the slightest token, and Miss B. had received a trifle from the spoils of San Jacinto when she was kind enough to dis- pense with Prudery and visit a soldier, prostrate and suffering under the influence of his destiny. If I admTred Miss Barker, it was because I admired others to whom she bore a striking resemblance! Is she not beautiful? Tell me!
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