WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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to Ravenna, Ohio, where he was 1·eared and educated. At the age of eighteen he set up in the world for himself at Aberdeen, Mississippi. There, he published a paper for several years while he was studying law. In 1854, he moved to Waco, Texas, where he began practicing his profes- sion. He became popular in the community, and for years was one of the leading lawyers of the city of Waco. He was also, for five or six years, the prosecuting attorney for the State. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he assisted in raising a company of which he was made first lieutenant, Senator Coke being the captain. This company went to Arkansas as part of General Holmes's command. After the close of the war, Denison returned to Waco and established the Register; but ill health forced him to sell out and travel for a year. When he was well again, he settled at Bryan, and established the News- Telle1· at Millican. After an eleven-year residence at Bryan, he moved to Belton (1879), and established The Com·ie1·, the plant of which was destroyed by fire about a year later. Denison then started the Texas Fa1·-me1·, but finding a buyer who would pay a considerable profit, he sold this plant and established the Belton Revorter, a paper he was still editing at the time of his death. He married Cornelia Anne Evans, of Waco, in October, 1856; but she died within a year, and on August 11, 1859, he married Hannah G. Lamb- din, the daughter of a Methodist preacher. They had five children; all of them and their mother survived him. See A Memo1·ial and Biographical Hist0111 of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and C0111ell Counties, Texas, pp. 549- 559; Dallas News, February 24, 25, and March 1, 19, 21, 1933.
To CYRUS H. RANDOLPH 1 Executive Department, Austin, July 21, 1860.
Hon. C. H. Randolph, State Treasurer. Sir: In your letter of the 18th you say, "This you declined," referring to your previous proposition for a personal interview upon the subject of the redemption of interest warrants. In th_is you misapprehended me, for so far from declining such an interview, I imagine rather, that I was courting one, when I said, "I assure you that a personal interview with you, would not be unpleasant to me at any time." But considering the redempt- tion of the interest warrants, which to my mind, is a matter of State, as well as individual interest, is official in its character. I did then, and do now, desire-that such communication should be made in writing. As to the redemption of the· interest warrants, you say, "The question arises, can these warrants be paid without leaving a deficit?" You think not, whereas, the Comptroller, in a letter dated May 28th says, "Should the revenue of the current year meet present expectations; and should the amount due the State from the Federal Government be soon collected, there will be
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