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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
[ Here another portion is missing] This morning I received an invitation to dine on tomorrow with the Fair New Yorker. So - you see by these means we have fine dressing and sweet smiles. I always [like] to meet Ladies at a dining table - if the party is vastly agreeable, it can be prolonged, and, if not, business is an excellent excuse for retiring. Shou'd the Gentleman remain at wine I withdraw to the parlor, and for the warit of a competitor engross the smiles of the dear creatures. Again, good bye, H. [ The torn paragraph was on the left margin of page 5.] "... and myself are reformed. Neither gets 'tight!' I have but ... ology 'I never drinks nothing.' "
1 Dallas kloming News, March 28, 1915.
THE VETO OF A BILL FOR RELIEF OF SIDNEY SHERMANl
City of Houston, Executive Department, 16th May, 1838. To the Honorable Congress : Gentlemen, I regret on the present occasion, that a sense of duty compels me to return a bill to the House of Representatives, without approval. I regret the more for the reason that I have ·entertained a high estimate of Colonel Sherman/ in many re- spects, as an officer. I am satisfied that in his case the la\vs already in existence were sufficient to have rendered justice to him. By a resolution of Congress, approved 30th November,3 all persons holding contingent miiitary commissions, then in the United States, were provided for; and individuals were to take rank according to the number of men introduced into the country. Col. Sherman claims to have introduced none except a part of a company under Captain Sylvester;• which landed at Matagorda, and claimed to belong to the command of Mr. Thomas Jefferson Chambers. 6 This part of a company left Cincinnati with a knowledge of, and after an order of this government had been published that no troops would be received into the service unless they provided themselves with arms, ammunition, clothing, and provisions for six months. Those, already alluded to, came at the expense of
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