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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
five years old, he had published a volume of prose narrative; but his longest prose work was The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Texas Republic, (London, 1841), 2 vols. During 1828-1829 Kennedy was associated with h:s personal friend and literary partner, William Motherwell, in the pub- lication of The Pa,isley Magazine, but the venture was not a success, and the periodical was short-lived. In 1831, he accompanied the Earl of Durham as his private secretary when that British political leader was sent to Canada to investigate the cause of the Canadian Rebellion. During the years 1839-1840, Kenned)' was in Texas, and on February 3, 1842, he was nominated and confirmed consul general from Texas to Great Britain (See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Te:ta$, 1836-1845, 220.), but later in the same year he resigned this office to accept the position of British consul for the port of Galveston, Texas. In his letter resigning the Texas consulate at London, he recommended Lachlain Mac- Intosh Rate as consul general for Texas at London. While in Texas, Ken- nedy resided at Galveston until 1847, at which time he returned to London and retired on a pension from the British Government. G. P. Garrison {ed.), Divlomatic Co1·respondence of the Republic of Texas, II, passim; Lama,· Papers, III, 101, 113. To JACOB SNIVELY 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, January 28th, 1842. To Col. Jacob Snively/ Sir, You are hereby authorized and requested to proceed .forthwith to sign the President's name to the Exchequer bills authorized to be printed and issued by act of the 19th inst., and to receive for your services the compension allowed by law ap- proved this day.
Sam Houston (Rubric)
[Addressed] : [Endorsed] :
To Col. Jacob Snively Present Appointment of Col. Snively to sign Exchequer
Bills.
1 Compfrolle1·'s Lette1·s, Texas State Library. :Jacob Snively was a German who came to Texas in 1836. By 18-12 he held a colonel's commission in the Texas Army, always serving as a staff Clfficer. In January, 1843, he was granted permission to raise a force and proceed to the frontier for the purpose of capturing a rich .Mexican train that had left Independence, Missouri, bound for Santa Fe, New Mexico. His instructions were that this train must be taken, if at nil, in honorable warfare, and that half of the spoils taken should go to the Texas Gov• ernment. With about 190 men, he proceeded to the vicinity of the Ark11n!-ns River, where his command was captured by a force of United States troops under the command of Captain Philip St. George Cooke. The Texans were forcd to surrender all their arms except a very few that were left to them as protection against the Indians. The Texans were permitted to return
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