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I had no newspapers to tell the cause. Millions have been expended by the present Executive, and nothing done; Yet I hear no com- plaints made. I have not before written or spoken, in relation to the subject of the Presidency, and if I did not think, and be- lieve, that it was the sincere wish of the real friends of the country that I should allow my name to be used, I would not have yielded my objections to leaving my private and happy home for public station. The President of Texas must have, (as well as deserve) the firm support of the true patriots of the country, or ruin will come upon us. Sam Houston. To W. D. ·wallach.:? 1 Colo1·ado Gazette and Advertiser, July 10, 1841. :?W. D. Wallach was the editor of the Matagorda Bulleti1i in 1839. Samuel A. Roberts to Lamar, September 28, 1839 (Lmnar Papers, V, 311) intro- duces Wallach to Lamar, and says that Wallach is by profession a civil engineer, that for a year he had edited the 11'fatagorda B111letin, through the columns of which he had proved himself a good political friend of Lamar, and of his administration. By the first of the year 1841, we find Wallach editing the Colora.clo Gazette, and he had become one of Houston's staunchest friends and supporters.
JULY, 1841-SEPTEMBER, 1841
To SAMUEL M. W1LLIAMs 1
Private!!!
Cedar Point, July 28, 1841
Dear Sam:? Things move on with me pretty coolly, and very dryly-drily because we have had no rain for the last nine weeks, drily, because we have no liquor, and I do not taste one drop of it, nor will I do it! My health is pretty fine, but Mrs. Houstons is not good, but better than it has been. By the 15th of August, we hope to set out for San Augustine; and be absent until court is over there. In the meantime, I send for some of the needful in variouR ways.- I am almost fearful (as you know; I am timid) to have it known, that I get supplies from you as it is hinted, by some; that I am sold to lVIcK & \V. 3 I really wou'd like to chat with you and McK. for an hour or two.- 'Tis said, "Houston will favor the Bank that -is," an<l oppose all others." Now, this; it is thought will throw me off; and make my fight shy.-! just thought I wou'd say this much- Keep da1·lc-- I reply that you did not bribe me to support the
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