WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1837
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To PHILIP DIMMIT 1
Columbia, Texas 16th Feby 1837.
Dear Friend, The latest news from the U. S. is the special message made by Genl Jackson to the Senate, in consequence of the arrival of Genl Santa Anna in the city. The President also laid some papers before the Senate, and among other matters, a letter written by Genl Santa Anna, to Gen! Jackson under date of 4th of July last in which he solicited the mediation of Genl Jackson between Texas & Mexico.~ This news came by Gentlemen who are from Orleans by land. They say that matters look well for us in the U. States! I will from time to time send all the news to the army. I am happy to learn that matters are all quiet in the army, and moving on well. Will the enemy move upon us and leave Santa Anna to take possession of the country, when they are all absent? By this time it is supposed that we are recognized, and that Genl Santa Anna is on his way to Vera Cruz. To day I send an order in favor of Captain Flores. 3 You will please to honor it. On yesterday I was confined with the Piles, today I am very well, and hope my health will be confirmed. If care and business can aid me, I will be restored. Sam Houston. Capt P. Dimmit P. S. When yo·u see my friend Ingram 4 salute him, and Perkins. H. [Addressed] : Capt. P. Dimmit 5 Dimmits Landing Texas 1 Sam Houston Letters, The University of Texas Library. ~Richardson, Messages and Papel'B of the Presidents, III, 274-276. 3 1',fanuel Flores was a captain in the Texas army, Second Regiment, Ninth Company, Texas Volunteers, from March 1, 1836 to October 12, 1837. At the battle of San Jacinto he was first sergeant of the company, Juan N. Seguin being the captain. Captain Flores turned against Texas in 1839 and joined General Canalizo. He was killed on the San Gabriel River in a fight with the Texas Rangers, May 14, 1839. See Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 440. "No dc.ubt the man referred to here was Ira Ingram, the Speaker of the House during the first Texas Congress. Ingram was a representative from Matagorda. ~see Houston to Dimmit, March 12, 1836.
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