WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1837
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To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Republic of Texas City of Houston, 16th Nov. 1837
To the Honorable Senate, Gentlemen: I take pleasure in presenting the nomination of Wm. L. Hunter as Chief Justice of the County of Goliad, and respectfully request that the same may be confirmed by the Senate. Sam Houston 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Joiwnals of the Senate, Repnblic of Texa.s, 1886-1845, p. 88. ~William L. Hunter came to Texas in the fall of 1835, as a member of the second company of New Orleans Grays. He served in Captain Pettus's company and was at the massacre of Goliad, but .made a miraculous escape. He was a representative from Goliad to the Annexation Convention and later served as county judge of Goliad, as this document shows. See Thrall, A Picto1-ial History of Texas, 569. ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS 1 Executive Department, Republic of Texas, November 21, 1837. To the Honorable Congress of Texas. Gentlemen: Congress having been apprized of the reasons which delayed the executive in presenting his views to their consideration at the commencement of the annual session, will supercede the necessity of an apology. The important responsibility which at the commencement of every community or nation, must devolve upon its lawgivers and officers, is manifest to all but the heedless, and will be properly estimated by the patriotic and virtuous of every country, on whom those duties may be conferred. Upon their exertions must the happiness and prosperity of a nation depend at home, and by their acts will its character be ascertained and determined in the opinion of the enlightened abroad. Our relations to the nations of Europe, as well as the governments of South America, have yet to be established, nor has the importance of this subject been disregarded, particularly with England and France, as our commercial relations, so far as they depend upon Euro- pean supplies, must exist with those nations. Since the departure of our commissioner to the court of St. James, no intelligence from him has reached this government. For the regulation of the circumstances of foreign ministers, agents and consuls, it
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