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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
... I do not know what character Mr. Lout bore, but if he was such a man as Costley he well deserved his fate...." See Photostat in The University of Texas Library.
TO THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, City of Houston, Texas, May 21st, 1838. To the Honorable Senate Gentlemen. The President has the pleasure of nominating for your consideration Samuel M. Williams 2 and Albert T. Burn- ley3 as commissioners of the Five Million Loan, agreeably to the late act of Congress. And respectfully asks the advice and con- firmation of the Honorable Senate. Sam Houston. 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), S6cret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, p. 110. 2 Samuel May Williams. See Houston to Samuel M. Williams, December 15, 1835. . 3 Albert Triplett Burnley. See Houston's Proclamation for the Issue of a Five Million Dollar Loan, April 24, 1837.
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1
Executive Department, City of Houston, Texas, May 21, 1838. To the honon1,ble house of representatives: GENTLEMEN: - I have under consideration the bill to or- ganize the county of Colon on Red River. By reference to its locality, it will be perceived that it includes within its limits a part of the territory on that river which is now in dispute be- tween Texas and the United States. The peculiar circumstances of our diplomatic relations respect- ing the territory in question, are too well known to the honorable congress to require on the present occasion, any detailed remarks relative thereto. To persevere in the organization of that county while such a state of things exists, regardless of the repeated remonstrance of such acts on the part of Texas by the United States, it is be- lieved would render still more complicated the boundary question, and have a tendency to procrastinate the final adjustment of the difficulty which now unhappily exists between the two govern- ments on the subject.
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