WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1839
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Be pleased to commend me kindly to your Parents, to the Little Ladies and the Boys. Salute my God Mother and little Siz, with my God Father included. [ Signature cut out] P. S. For several days we have looked for Doct. Irion and General Rusk. If the Doctor is in Nacogdoches and not coming, please commend him all my spare affection! Miss Anna, when I say adieu I ought to have mentioned my young friend Gen'l -----Harding of Tennessee. He is young, handsome and very wealthy and noble. Shou'd [-----]~ to your burg, you must see him. I promised to show you against all the ladies in Tennessee. [ No signature] 1 Dallas Morning News, March 28, 1915. ~The brackets are in the newspaper; also no signatures are indicated, as in this copy.
IN BEHALF OF THE CHEROKEE LAND BILL 1
[ December 22, 1839] MR. HOUSTON introduced a bill providing for the running off into 640 acre tracts the lands lately owned and occupied by the Cherokee Indians, and selling it if for the use of the govern- ment.~ MR. KA UFMAN 3 moved that the bill be read by sections. Carried. MR. KAUFMAN moved that all the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande be sectionized and sold in the same way: MR. HOUSTON would have no objections to have any gentle- man oppose the bill, but he hoped amendments would not be in- troduced for the purpose of embarrassing it. He hoped this bill would be decided upon its own merits. [ Mr. Kaufman Mr. Jack, Mr. Hansford] Mr. HOUSTON hoped that gentleman would suffer the bill to pass to its second reading, and not now embarrass it with amend- ments. He was satisfied that when the proper time came he could convince the gentleman from Shelby that the Cherokees did own the land now under discussion. [ Mr. Holmes, Mr. Menefee, Mr. Hansford, Mr. Kaufman]
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