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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
The papers returned by Mr. Conde Raguet 2 you will please retain as belonging to yourself. Esaw will hand you the Saddle bag in which you will place the papers. For several days I have been bed ridden in consequence of. rheumatic pains. I am better. Today I hope to be enabled to ride a little on horse back. My sufferings have been excrusiating in my neck, Shoulder & arms. You will be pleased to make my most respectful salutations to Mrs. Raguet & family & believe me ever very truly your friend Sam Houston [Rubric] [Addressed] : To Colonel Henry Raguet Nacogdoches Texas Esaw. 1 Raguet Papers, The University of Texas Library. ~Conde Raguet, See Houston to Henry Raguet, January (no date), 1838.
TO ALEXANDER HORTON 1
San Augustine, October 10, 1838.
To Colonel Alexander Horton: 2 Sir-Should the lines between the whites and the Indians not be run by the 20th inst. by orders which I have already issued, you will proceed to have the same executed, and for that purpose you will employ a surveyor and take such force as you may think proper. You will order the agent, Charles Sims, Esq. with you as a commissioner. Sam Houston 1 The Jounzal of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, 1837-1898, 3d Cong., Reg. Sess., 93. 2 See Houston to Alexander Horton, July 15, 1837.
To THOMAS J. RusK 1
San Augustine, October 10, 1838. To Maj. Gen. T. J. Rusk, Commander of Texas Militia: Sir - I have the honor to communicate to you, and order you to have the line run between the Cherokees and their as- sociate bands, agreeably to the treaty concluded February, 1836, between them and the Government of T'exas. This should be done immediately, it will do more to conciliate the Indians and give protection to the eastern section of Texas, than ten thousand men in the field would produce. If it is not immediately done, all future calamities must be attributed to its omission. I am
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