WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1841
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January, 1841-May, 1841
A COMMITTEE REPORT ON APPROPRIATION FOR THE CHEROKEE BILL 1
Committee Room, Jan. 11, 1841 The committee of conference on part of the House, on the amendment of the Senate and House to a bill appropriating seventy-five thousand dollars in the promissory notes of this Government, to carry into effect the provisions of an act to sec- tionize and sell the lands formerly reserved for, and occupied by the Cherokee Indians : Reported t~at the Senate refused to recede from their amend- ment, and concur in the amendments of the House; and that the committee on the part of the House refused to accede to the amendments of the Senate, and recede from the amendments of the House, and had agreed to disagree. Sam Houston, Chairman. 1 The Journal of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, 5th Cong., 1st Sess., 1840-1841, pp. 464--465.
To ANTHONY BUTLER 1
Austin, 2d Feby., 1841. MY DEAR SIR:-I would have written to you long since, but the truth is I have nothing interesting or agreeable to advise you of. We have been in session for months, and little of advantage has resulted to our country from the session. We are in a bad box, and I fear it is locked upon us! We are in debt - we have nothing to pay with. It will be impossible for the Government to go on without the most burthensome taxes. Yes, so much so that the people can not get money sufficient to pay them! What is to become of us, God only can tell. All human wisdom, or at least Texas wisdom, seems to fail us. ,ve have many patriots in Texas, as well as Congress, but it seems that every measure proposed by those most able in finance can not devise a plan by which the nation is to be extricated from its present difficulties! The exertion of all the talents and industry of the people will be necessary to restore us to the situation in which the present administration found the country. But we must turn our eyes to the only subject that claims the attention
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