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country, in the House of Representatives. Today I will com- mence my annual message which has been defered, only on ac- count of my health. My situation ever since I came to office has been most disagreeable. I have been kept at the Seat of Gov- ernment, and not one comfort-not even a shelter for my head, and subject to every exposure of season, and weather- At last a house has been purchased by [the] Government, and is ordered to be fitted up, for future use--so you see I will be in order for a Levee or Soiree. So soon as congress adjourns it is my intention to visit, Old Nacogdoches, & commence, improvements, at Egeri so that I will have a home, when my term expires. I shall claim a months furlough, at least, when I leave here, as Genl. Lamar will be here. I pray you my dear Sir, to present my very Kindest, and grate- ful affection to Mrs. Raguet & Miss Anna- I will write to Miss Anna very soon-Mr. Kaufman,2 will be detrained [sic] on busi- ness for some time. Doubtless he has written you all the news. Regards to my friends. ·
Sam Houston [Rubric]
P. S.
Fidelle has not been heard of H
Colonel Henry Raguet [ Addressed] : Colonel Henry Raguet Nacogdoches Texas By Judge Underwood 1 Raguet Pavers, The University of Texas Library. 2 David Spangle Kaufman (December 18, 1813-January 31, 1851) was born at Boiling Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton College in 1833, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Natchez, Mississippi, and set up his practice at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1835. He moved to Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1837, served in the war against the Cherokees in 1839, was a member of the Texas House of Rep- resentatives, 1839-1843, was in the Texas Senate, 1843-1845, was chal"ge d'affaires for Texas to the United States in 1845. He moved his residence to Lowes Ferry, Texas in 1843. When Texas became a State of the Union he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the 29th Cong1·ess, and was reelected to the 30th and 31st Congresses, serving from March 3, 1846 till his death in Washington, D. C., January 31, 1851. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery at Washington. See G. P. Garrison (ed.), Diplo- 11wtic Co,-resvondence of the Republic of Texcrs, II, 359-412, pmisim, George L. Crocket, Two Centuries ·in Ea.st Texas, 201, 241-242. The Bio- graphical DinJctory of the American Congress (1928), 881.
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