WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
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Should you accept the same, you will be pleased to enter upon the duties of the office and notify the fact to the President as early as convenient. Sam Houston. 1 Execntive Letter Book, No. 2, p. 179, Texas State Library. 2 John Birdsall was Attorney General during Houston's first administra- t!on as President of the Republic of Texas. After the death of James Collinsworth he was made Chief Justice of the Republic. (See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Rcp11bl-ic of Texas, 18S6-18/i5,
114-116; also Houston to Birdsall, February 22, 1838.) 3 See Houston to James Collinsworth, March 13, 1836.
To ROBERT A. IRION 1
5th Aug. 1838. My views on the smuggling business I have already stated in my communication 2 to Col. Hockley Let the incubus Mr. Townsend 3 be removed, and his place be supplied with the best appointment that can be had. I apprehend he has injured our Country-he has no excuse for his misconduct. Counterfeit Certificates have been passed before him under his Consular Seal, when he knew them to be such, and have been ex- hibited to me in this place. Notify him of his removal by next mail, and fill his place as soon as practicable. Sam Houston. [Endorsed]: No. 2355, Box 24. 1 Domestic Cor1·espondence, Texas State Library. This note is written on the back of a letter from Irion to Houston, July 28, 1838. 2 See Houston to George W. Hockley, August 4, 1838.
To BIG MUSH, CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEES 1
Mush's Village, T'exas, August 10, 1838.
My Brother, I was sorry that I did not see you in Town. My Brother Bowl has no doubt sent you the word that my nephew John, took to him from me. There is now some trouble between the Mexicans and the Americans. I wish you to stand by the Treaty which I made with you, & my Red Brothers. I will never lie to that treaty while I live, and it must stand as long as [a] good man lives and water runs. I will build it up; and all men shall see it.
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