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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, l8l10
TO JESSE W ALLING 1
San Augustine 28th Sept, /40
Mr. Walling, 2 Please bring my horses, saddle, bridle, Blanket, and Curry Comb, or send them by Mr. Thomas Chumley, as I must start to the West-Come directly. My wife is very unwell- Sam Houston [Rubric] [Addressed]: To Mr. Walling, Strickland Settlement, Shelby County Texas Mr. T. Churnbly 1 James W. Truitt Collection, The University of Texas Library. 2 There were several Walling brothers who came to Texas in 1835-1836- John, Jesse, Alfred, James. This letter was probably to Jesse Wailing, since he is the one who lived in the Strickland Settlement, Shelby County.
SPEECH CONCERNING THE CHEROKEE BILL1
House of Representatives, Friday, December 4, 1840. The bill making an appropriation to carry into effect the Chero- kee bill was taken up. On motion of Mr. Houston, the House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Van Ness in the chair, on the bill to appropriate $75,000 to carry into effect the law passed at the last session, to sectionize and sell the Cherokee land. Mr. Kaufman moved to appropriate $1,338,000 as a remunera- tion to settlers, and such as hold claims in that part of the coun- try. Mr. Houston supposed that before the vote on that amendment would come up, the whole merits of the bill would be brought up; and as it appeared that they had come to sit in judgment upon the acts of last congress, he could not suffer it to pass without giving his views upon it. At the last congress this question had been fully discussed, and after all the light which could be thrown upon the subject, it had been passed by almost an unanimous vote. New members would rise in their place and impugn the motive of the patriotic members of last session, but he would ven- ture to predict that after a full and impartial discussion, the pres- ent congress would give similar vote. This was a bill that would rip up fraud to its foundation, and he was sorry to see many honorable men, for whom he had rn- tertained the highest opinion, so much opposed to it; but he would not impute to them anything but the most correct intentions, as
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